What are the essentials in your life? Your smartphone, the keys to your home, maybe (or maybe not) your wallet. But in your working life there’s something that’s been a mainstay for what seems like forever, I’d suggest: the PDF. It’s about to change, thanks to Adobe Acrobat Studio.
Adobe Acrobat Studio
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It’s more than 30 years old, invented by Adobe in 1993, but it remains the staple for sharing information, for a start. It works across multiple platforms and is simple and reliable. But Adobe reckoned that as it’s often the end product in a series of communications, there might be ways to make the PDF a more collaborative organism.
Which is where Adobe Acrobat Studio comes in, linking Adobe Acrobat, which is what you need for regular PDFs, with Adobe Express and AI capabilities.
Acrobat Studio is designed so that PDFs can be transformed, in something called PDF Spaces, to include multiple files, as well as selected websites and more, to create a more sophisticated and changing environment.
It means that instead of a single document, you can access more in what Adobe calls “conversational knowledge hubs,” so that you can work on multiple items and create reports or even infographics without leaving Acrobat Studio.
Agentic AI is coming, as it is to so many products now, so that these assistants can sleuth out insights, generate ideas and more. The AI Assistants can tackle specific roles. For instance, you can ask it to be an instructor, an analyst or an entertainer.
For the record, I will always choose entertainer. I mean, life’s too short for anything else.
The entire space can be shared to allow “seamless collaboration by allowing recipients to interact with the same knowledge hub and extract insights effortlessly,” Adobe said.
But with something as crucial to our working lives as the PDF, isn’t there a risk that Adobe could spoil the simplicity and reliability with which we’re all so familiar? I asked the company about this, and was reassured that you can still use PDFs just as you do now. The core feature of sharing a document or other file isn’t going away. “It’s a simple means for people to exchange information and that should always remain. There is no reason to disrupt that. We just make it more powerful as we do with the system and all the document is the hero. There is an assistant available to you on the site for you to do more things with that. What this is doing is introducing an additional mechanism where people who do feel constrained because, say, they have so much information, and want to share it with their audience,”an Adobe spokesperson told me.
In other words, it’s about making conversations richer. What are the essentials in your life? Your smartphone, the keys to your home, maybe (or maybe not) your wallet. But in your working life there’s something that’s been a mainstay for what seems like forever, I’d suggest: the PDF. It’s about to change, thanks to Adobe Acrobat Studio.
It’s more than 30 years old, invented by Adobe in 1993, but it remains the staple for sharing information, for a start. It works across multiple platforms and is simple and reliable. But Adobe reckoned that as it’s often the end product in a series of communications, there might be ways to make the PDF a more collaborative organism.
Which is where Adobe Acrobat Studio comes in, linking Adobe Acrobat, which is what you need for regular PDFs, with Adobe Express and AI capabilities.
Acrobat Studio is designed so that PDFs can be transformed, in something called PDF Spaces, to include multiple files, as well as selected websites and more, to create a more sophisticated and changing environment.
It means that instead of a single document, you can access more in what Adobe calls “conversational knowledge hubs,” so that you can work on multiple items and create reports or even infographics without leaving Acrobat Studio.
Agentic AI is coming, as it is to so many products now, so that these assistants can sleuth out insights, generate ideas and more. The AI Assistants can tackle specific roles. For instance, you can ask it to be an instructor, an analyst or an entertainer.
For the record, I will always choose entertainer. I mean, life’s too short for anything else.
The entire space can be shared to allow “seamless collaboration by allowing recipients to interact with the same knowledge hub and extract insights effortlessly,” Adobe said.
But with something as crucial to our working lives as the PDF, isn’t there a risk that Adobe could spoil the simplicity and reliability with which we’re all so familiar? I asked the company about this, and was reassured that you can still use PDFs just as you do now. The core feature of sharing a document or other file isn’t going away.
“It’s a simple means for people to exchange information and that should always remain. There is no reason to disrupt that. We just make it more powerful as we do with the system and all the document is the hero. There is an assistant available to you on the site for you to do more things with that. What this is doing is introducing an additional mechanism where people who do feel constrained because, say, they have so much information, and want to share it with their audience,”an Adobe spokesperson told me.
In other words, it’s about making conversations richer. Suggested use cases included assistance in drafting responses to customer inquiries, analysis of customer feedback or help with drafting business reviews.
Acrobat Studio is available globally from today. It’s a subscription offering, with a 14-day free trial. It offers unlimited access to PDF Spaces, AI Assistants and Adobe Express Premium, with pricing starting at $24.99 a month.
