From school students to teachers, tech department to CEO, everyone knows about Adobe Acrobat, a solution to create, edit, and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Your children’s school may have recently asked you to send a document in PDF format, or you may have recently distributed notes among colleagues in the same format. PDF files are ready to level up after all these years, as Adobe is introducing Acrobat Studio.

Understanding the problem

To understand Acrobat Studio, one has to understand the problem with PDF documents. It’s an easy format to create and distribute, which can be done person to person or one to many.

Year on year, the number of PDFs keeps exponentially growing. But one thing has not changed. Take the example of making a strategy note for an office project. The same note goes to the CEO, the tech team, and the folks in the communications team. But each category has a different level of understanding of the project. The tech team may want to know more about technical aspects, while the CEO would be keen on company forecasts using your project. You have all the information, but the way it is presented is homogeneous in nature.

The writing is done linearly, even though reality is that the needs of the people consuming a document are different. With AI, things are changing. The first step was Acrobat AI Assistant, which allows easy conversations with a document.

Enter Acrobat Studio

There are three components to Acrobat Studio. PDF Spaces: It’s a new way to consume and exchange information. Second, bringing in powerful, AI-based easy-to-use creation capabilities, powered by Adobe Express. Third, the best-in-class PDF tools that are now more powerful.

At the moment, creation and consumption are a one-way street. With PDF Spaces, the new solution can help combine relevant documents, web content, and research into a single space. Further, there are tailored AI personalities and skills meant for specific goals. You can tell them your needs, and the AI will try to present a solution. It is not a generic AI assistant.

You can share your documents differently, and it will help your audiences communicate with your research. It’s not just a conversation with a document that’s in front of them. It’s a conversation with your knowledge base.

At a glance

Acrobat Studio can combine relevant documents, web content and research into a single space.

• PDF Spaces: Bring files, links, and notes into a knowledge hub for faster AI insights.

• Personalised AI assistants: Use prebuilt assistants or customise your assistant for a specific job for focused results.

• Adobe Express: Easily create business content with full access to Adobe Express premium features.