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KI 2842 Adobe Acrobat

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Acrobat Reader is a free program for opening (reading and printing) PDF documents. Adobe Acrobat Pro is a program that must be purchased, which is used, among other things, to create and edit PDF documents.
Acrobat Reader
If you only need to open PDF documents to read, navigate and possibly print them, Acrobat Reader will do.

This program is free. It can be installed from Software Center on UiB PC, from Managed Software Center on UiB Mac and from Microsoft Store, Apple Store and several other places.
Adobe Acrobat Pro
If you are going to do advanced editing and production of PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro. A license/subscription must be purchased for this program. There are two options:
  • License for one year at a time, in the same way as the other Adobe programs in Creative Cloud. In the ordering system, this is called "Acrobat Pro for teams..." and has the article no. 100024260. (See KI 0956 What licenses are available in Adobe Creative Cloud? for more information.)
  • Three-year license ("Acrobat Pro 2024"). The price for the latter is for three years, so it is clearly the cheapest if you only need Acrobat Pro. In the ordering system, this is called "Acrobat Pro 2024 for teams, Ingen skytjenester. Leiselisens med 36 mnd varighet, ..." and has the article no. 100024261.
There is no longer a "one-time" or "owned" license for Acrobat Pro, that option was discontinued in 2024.
Other programs for handling PDF documents
For creation and simple handling of PDF documents, you may not need Acrobat Pro. A simpler and free program may suffice. Most programs can save files in PDF format with their saving og printing functions. If you need to merge or split PDF documents, rotate pages etc., you can use, among other options, PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge).