1. Adobe Acrobat Pro Dc 2019
2. Acrobat Pro Dc Signature

Well, the answer is not so simple.

It is equivalent to – if you can live with just food why is your house so big. Because it has an experience and “sets” of “utilities”. Better correlation : Windows OS : 20 GB , Mac OS : 7 GB , Linux : 1 GB. why so?

Someone asked this to me on Quora so sharing here.

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First off all you need to know what experience are you looking for. While Adobe invented this, just pdf is not the world today. You might have noticed some PDF viewers breaking things apart when opening a PDF or doesnt print well while Adobe opens its just fine. The appreciation lies in the details. Why did you need pdf if images also showed you the same view and portability. There are a lot more finer details, see below. and broader too.

Always free, and now more powerful than ever, the Acrobat Reader mobile app is packed with the tools you need to view, annotate, sign, and share PDFs anywhere. Note: Pre-August 2019 versions of Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2017, and Acrobat 2015 applications cannot be licensed on macOS 10.15 Catalina and later versions.Adobe recommends customers updating their Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2017, or Acrobat 2015 to the latest release.

The DC and Reader versions have different sizes. The pro version even more since it can edit too. It is now not just a reader but a suite in itself. The day you start using it as a offline discussion tool – you will see a difference. When you start using it for business transactions requiring validations of authenticity, you will see the difference.

Finer inclusions.

1. In the order of increasing sizes — PDF Viewer < PDF Processor < PDF Graphics manager and processor < PDF Graphics manager + embedded flash < with typography engine <…. list gets bigger and bigger when you add projection engine library, a 3D runtime.
2. You can run forms, digital signatures, annotations and accessibility features.
3. PDF to word, compliances with broader conversions etc.

Here are more features in DC Pro

Broad strokes for a software

1. First of all you should understand that all platforms (OS) have different capabilities on how they handle different things.
   For example, most softwares will be of bigger sizes in Mac than Windows. Reason : As most used OS, Microsoft continued to add some of the required services and capabilities as part of their OS while others did not
2. Backward compatibility with old OS : Few features that used to be there in older systems may not be needed or low sized implementations in new still needs to be supported. Same reason why Windows or any software size continues to increase over time.
3. While installing you need more space than the actual installation, msi, dmg, exe contain compressed data which is unusable when compressed. Needs to be opened after installation.
4. All OS also use “Restore points” i.e. if your OS crashes, it can restore your computer back to where it was at that point. This requires the OS to save the copy of installer or related files. (Some software ask this at the end of installation, whether you want to keep the installer or not).

There is a lot more to it. Readers are welcome to contribute and discuss below.

Store and access Dropbox files when you’re working in Acrobat or on your desktop. Sync your documents and pick up your work right where you left off, across devices. Turn any document — paper or digital — into a PDF form. Then fill, sign, and send it.

Interact with PDFs

• View and interact with all types of PDF content
• New: Work on touch-enabled devices
• New: Store and share files online with instant access to recently viewed files
• New: Access and store files in your Box, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive accounts
• New: Send, track, and confirm document delivery electronically

Create PDFs

• Convert documents and images to PDF files
• Create PDFs from any application that prints
• Create, protect, and send PDFs in popular Microsoft Office apps for Windows
• Combine multiple documents in one PDF
• Convert web pages to interactive PDFs, complete with links
• Prevent others from copying or editing information in PDFs
• Create a password-protected PDF
• Turn scanned documents into searchable PDFs with selectable text
• New: Recognize text in scans, and then preview and correct suspect errors with a side-by-side view
• New: Automatically fix photos of documents to remove backgrounds and adjust perspective
• New: Turn Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (AI), or InDesign (INDD) files into PDFs from your desktop or mobile device
• Create and export PDFs on your mobile device
• New: Take advantage of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac support
• Prepare PDFs consistently with guided actions
• Convert and validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A and PDF/X
• Create technical PDFs in Microsoft Project, Visio, or Autodesk AutoCAD
• Create and validate PDFs to meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities

Edit PDFs

• New: Edit PDF text and images with full-page paragraph reflow
• New: Turn PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files with improved formatting accuracy
• Convert PDFs to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG image formats
• Insert, delete, and organize pages in a PDF
• Add bookmarks, headers, numbering, and watermarks
• New: Turn scanned paper documents into instantly editable PDFs
• Automatically optimize PDFs to reduce file size
• Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
• Redact to permanently remove sensitive information in PDFs
• Preflight and prepare files for high-end print production
• Add Bates numbering to legal documents
• New: Edit text and organize pages in PDFs on your iPad
• New: Reorder, delete, or rotate PDF pages on your iOS or Android tablet

Sign and collect

• New: Fill, sign, and send forms faster using data from your autofill collection on your computer or mobile device
• Measure the distance, area, and perimeter of objects in PDFs
• New: Capture your signature with your mobile device to use across Adobe Document Cloud
• Add comments to PDFs with a highlighter, sticky notes, and more
• New: Give and get fast, clear feedback with all-New: commenting tools
• Turn paper or Word docs into fillable PDF forms
• New: Host SharePoint-based shared reviews on Office 365 sites
• Work with certificate signatures
• Collect comments from others in one PDF file
• Choose comments and export to Word
• Mark PDFs with stamps, such as “approved” or “draft”
• New: Collect e-signatures from others and track responses in real time
• Compare two versions of a document to see what’s changed
• Enhance PDF forms by adding interactivity with JavaScript

What's New:

Adobe Acrobat Pro Dc 2019

Accessibility

• 4232082: Acrobat mappes roles to tags in the tree view by default, but not if tag name has some specific characters.
• 4195769: Read Out Loud not reading slow enough. User cannot set lesser than 150 words per minute in Reading Preferences.

Portfolio

• 4212726: Unable to save added or removed columns in a DC created Email portfolio.

Security

• 4223361: Unable to open PDF after applying password protection for some files.

Browser

• 4225014: Delay in loading pdf files in Internet explorer.

Compare

• 4225249: Compare PDFs causes a crash when comparing related PDFs, one saved from Preflight.
• 4228132: The Summary Page displays in between the compare result while navigating through the Next /Previous Change arrow, if two scanned files are compared.
• 4231258: Diff rect is not shown at proper place when files used are cropped before compare.

Forms

• 4232403: Acrobat Crashes on using ‘Prepare Form’ tool during processing of some shortcut with more than one form-PDF document open.
• 4227286: Acrobat Reader crashes on placing CMYK jpeg to an image field.
• 4224823: Mouse action up/down not working properly on Form field properties.

Preflight

• 4232061: “Verify conformance” option is returning incorrect status for PDF/X-5n compliant files.

OCR

Acrobat Pro Dc Signature

• 4236105: Not able to run OCR properly on images having “inverted text” or colored background.

AutoCad PDF Maker

• 4232296: Unable to open dwg file in Acrobat through drag and drop or File->open and Acrobat crashes.

PDFMaker

• 4232075: Using Mail merge from Word 2016, it saves the file to .doc format first.
• 4081754: Acrobat does not capture the DATE field from the original message during conversion when MSG file attached to email opened.

Viewer

• 4237190: Acrobat crash while opening the PDF created in Live cycle designer.
• 4229000: Incorrect file location is shown for file opened from mapped network drive.
• 4229460: Cursor Co-ordinates windows scrolls down along with the PDF content scroll in continuous Scroll mode.

SDK

• 4232040: Added support for opening password protected files via OLE.

Javascript

• 4217681: JavaScript functionality is not persistent on Mac and Win.

Organize Pages

• 4205759: Limit on the number of page ranges that can be extracted at one time.

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