I am currently a business student with plans to continue my education through an MBA candidacy in finance, specifically tax law. I am hoping to develop familiarity and a skill set with software that will serve me both in an academic environment and the business world environment. I need to choose between the full version of Acrobat that is available to me now, and for a few more years, at a greatly reduced academic price. The other option is to subscribe to Acrobat.com about which I know even less than I do about Acrobat Pro and do not know if it has academic pricing.
I was hoping to find a Creative Cloud package created for business student that would combine the various tools that Adobe offers for document management. That would include the e- signature program, the conversion between Microsoft documents (Excel and Word) from .pdf documents and whatever other ancillary programs Adobe tacks on for pdf use. I would like to have access to some of the other Creative Cloud tools and Adobe has enrolled me (and charged me) for a Photoshop course that I have never ordered and never used but I would like to try using some of the desktop publishing programs. Adobe has placed some pretty insurmountable blocks to using the Creative Cloud for any longer than two years and I haven't been able to renew my subscription.
In any event, despite their prohibitively high pricing compared to any competitors in what seems to be a commodity more than a brand product, Adobe is still widely used. All of this is a prelude to a few questions that are directed to anyone working in the financial industry. Is Adobe maintaining the moat it once had on pdf software despite the lower cost alternatives in an industry where purse strings have tightened considerably? Would you say that Acrobat Pro is losing ground to the cloud based applications? Do you see the necessity for installed software even being relevant five years out? Are the functions fulfilled by Acrobat.com as professional as those offered by the more traditional installed version/
Thank you to anyone who can shed light on any of these matters.
Regards,
William G. Smith
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