Adobe Acrobat

• Author: Dennis Kennedy - Tom Mighell
• Pages: 169-175

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Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is rightly considered the leader in the creation,

editing, and management of Portable Document Format (PDF)

files. For lawyers, PDF is the de facto standard for court filings

and secure document exchange. PDF is also the standard in

electronic discovery, making inroads against the TIFF format for

scanned documents. Adobe Acrobat and its companion Adobe

Reader now make up part of the standard desktop application

package in many law firms and corporate legal departments.

While most lawyers are familiar with PDF and utilize the

format in their practice, they may not realize that Acrobat

offers powerful collaboration tools as part of its Document

Cloud product. Like Microsoft Word, Acrobat allows users to

review, mark up, and comment on PDF files, both within your

organization or by email review. Additionally, Adobe offers

the Adobe Connect conferencing product, which provides an

online screen-sharing space for meetings or live document

review. Let’s take a look at these Acrobat tools and how Acro-

bat evolved into a collaboration platform. While we will be

focusing on Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud (DC) in this chap-

ter and recommend that lawyers use the most current version,

earlier versions of Acrobat have many of the same features

mentioned in this chapter. Note: This chapter primarily focuses

on Adobe Acrobat DC, not the Acrobat Reader product. While

Reader offers many of the same collaboration options, Acrobat

DC is the more full-featured collaboration tool.

Review, Comment, and Edit

Why use Acrobat for document review and other collabora-

tion? Why not instead create a document in a program like

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