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August 27, 2025
Question

Suppress sign-in in Acrobat

  • August 27, 2025
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Hi Team,

 

We've configured the "Suppress sign-in in Acrobat" by Acrobat Customization Wizard for long time. This feature allow our user to use non premium features in acrobat without sign in. and paid features like edit/combine/create pdf function would be available post sign in if user has a subscription. It worked well before, if user does not have subsciption and not sign in, the acrobat just played as a adobe reader.  And for those who has a valid subscription like std and pro, they can edit/create pdf after sign in.  But recently we found when those users who signed-in with valid subscription, the acrobat still prompt up like: you do not have access to this feature. please contact your it admin for more details.  What happened and how to fix?  We really want to keep single application like Acrobat to play as reader or editor depends on whether user sign in or not instead of to deploy the separate Adobe Reader again.

 

Thanks

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S_S
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Community Manager
August 27, 2025

Hi @zzz_3345678,

 

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for the experience with using Acrobat.

 

The change you are referring to is due to the change in the licensing framework with the unified installer for Acrobat.

 

  • In the latest builds, Acrobat expects that all users who need Standard/Pro features must be allowed to sign in without suppression.

  • If you keep “Suppress sign-in” enabled, Acrobat runs in a crippled mode and won’t honor subscription entitlements.

Now, to fix this, you can still enforce “Reader mode” by setting:

Registry key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\Installer\
Value: SUPPRESSSIGNIN=0 (allow sign-in)
Value: bIsSCUPEnabled=1 (forces Reader mode fallback)

This way, unlicensed users stay in Reader mode, but licensed users can still sign in and unlock.

 

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Souvik.

Participant
September 15, 2025

Same situation here. Unfortunately this workaround is not functional. We implemented the 2 new reg entries on our Development AVD but users are still prompted to sign-in. Please provide a working solution because only a small percentage of our users are entitled to an Acrobat DC Pro license and the rest need the Reader mode.