The competingĭocuSign service costs $10 per month for five signatures or $20 per month for unlimited signatures, and you have to bring your own application (which could be Acrobat-can you say “awkward”?). You get unlimited signatures-the same level of service as you’d get from an EchoSign Pro subscription, which costs $15 a month, and you get the application as part of the deal. Sign on the dotted screenĪdobe’s EchoSign electronic signature service is no more-because its features are now built into Acrobat Pro DC and the Document Cloud (it’s also included with Creative Cloud subscriptions).

However, you can open PDFs or other documents located on those other services in Acrobat, and they will appear in your Recent list of files in Acrobat. It’s more than a little annoying to contemplate having to subscribe to another cloud service to get things done. No, not that cloud: Instead of incorporating new features into its Creative Cloud subscription service, Adobe is introducing a new cloud, called the Document Cloud (DC for short), a document-management and document-signing service for which Acrobat is the interface, on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone.Īdobe Acrobat’s new interface will be consistent across platforms and devices.ĭocument Cloud is a cloud unto itself: It has no awareness of iCloud, Amazon Cloud, DropBox, Google Drive, or any other cloud service. The new Acrobat pushes PDFs to the cloud.

If you subscribe to Creative Cloud, you’ll get the same features as with Acrobat Pro DC (subscription). The non-Pro version lacks things like PDF file optimization, redaction, Preflighting (checking document elements prior to press printing), Bates numbering (adding numbers or date and time marks to a document), and document version comparisons. The perpetual versions do not allow you to send out PDFs for electronic signatures. Adobe’s new Document cloud service will offer electronic signature management, a standout feature compared to other PDF applications.Īcrobat DC and Acrobat Pro DC are available as perpetual versions ($299 and $449, respectively) or subscription versions ($13 and up, depending upon version and length of subscription).

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