It would be great if there was a way to drag and drop an open PDF on to an email that is already open. The "Attach to email" feature only opens a new email. For example, I'm in an email chain where I'm periodically downloading PDFs from a software, and I want to attach it to the email chain and send it off. Currently, I need to save the document locally and then attach it, which takes extra time and space. It would be helpful if there was a way to just drag and drop the PDF onto the open email.

Hi, I copy paste here a conversation I had yesterday with one of your help service agent (chat). It makes it quicker than re-writing everything. In summary, the automatic file saving failed on me. Indeed, when Adobe Acrobat DC software crashed, I had to close it and when reopening it, it said unable to reopen 3 of the files. I was not too worried since I had saved the most important doc under a new name one hour or so before and would have to redo just a few revision comments. But to my surprise, when I opened it, although the name was the new one, all the modifications/comments done on the 19th had disappeared and it said the last ones were done on the 15th. This means more than the autosave failed, but even the saving under a new name did not work. Here’s my conversation…
"Hello, I worked on a document all afternoon yesterday and I saved the document with all the comments I made at 6:39 pm. Then Adobe crashed, everything freezed. I did not touch it for many hours hoping it would debug. But this morning, nothing. So, I had to restart the program, but the file - even if it has the last name I gave it - does not contain the comments and highlights made yesterday, it only contains those dated January 15th. I couldn't find the latest (yesterday's) saved version.
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AFZAL
I understand your issue, Dominique.
There is a default automatic save document changes for every 5 minutes set on Acrobat Pro DC. If you have made changes to the document yesterday, the data would have been saved.
Once you re-launch the application and open the same file, you'll find an option to restore the data. If you would have missed on this option, then we do not have an option to retrieve the data.
I would suggest you to change the automatic save document to one minute so that you will not miss out any data. Below are the steps to change the preference:
Edit > Preferences > Documents > Automatic save document changes.
Let me know if that works?
Me:
Well that's the problem, my preferences do have the automatic saving every 5 minutes (I changed it to 1 min earlier this morning) but I don't know if the automatic save worked or not yesterday but when I had to restart the program this morning, and asked to restore, little windows appeared saying it could not retrieve the files (3).
And then the file version of Jan 15 opened which is weird since I had saved it myself under another name yesterday. The comments an revision notes from yesterday don't show
AFZAL:
I understand your issue however the Acrobat is synced or has auto-saved the file version only till Jan 15th. Hence kindly request you to make the changes again and save the documents. Also, please let me know if it crashes again we can troubleshoot further to fix the crash issue?
Me:
This means hours of work lost, and hours of work to do again. I wonder first time why it crashed. Sooo disappointed from Adobe.
And having to remember exactly allll the comments I made and how I wrote them won't be easy :(
AFZAL:
I can completely understand how much you are upset. I would request you to report to our engineering team who works on these application crashes by clicking on the below link:
https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
You know, it's not only a question of autosave, cause I saved it under a new name after I made a lots of revision comments and underlying and still they don't appear.
AFZAL:
I can certainly understand your situation, Dominique. If the file was saved with a different name then the saved changes will appear in the saved file location however the data has not been auto saved due to the default changes.
Me:
No, you don't understand... even the changes made before manually saving it, under a new name, don't appear in that newly named file.
AFZAL:
If you have saved the changes to the file which you have edited, the saved changes will appear in the file which you're trying to open. Please make sure you're opening the same file and from the correct file location.
Me:
I do. I've been making researches since early morning (haven't had breakfast) in all my files and it's always the same file coming back... without the last modifications. The IT technician from my organisation helped me too and is as confused as I am. Anyway... Thanks for your support, I give up on trying to retrieve it.
Isn't there a temporary file I could look in?
AFZAL:
I understand that you are upset Dominique, the file might have closed before you saved it or there might be permission issue on your computer according to the group policies set by your IT admin. We request you to post this feedback to our engineering team by using the wish form link below.
https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
If there is a temporary file stored for that particular PDF, as soon as you re-launch Acrobat the application itslef will give you an option to retrieve or restore the data. As there might be a permission issue, the temporary files may not be accessible on your computer.
Me:
It is not a permission issue since Adobe did restore files in the past, but this time there's been a bug and it couldn't.
Thanks and have nice day.
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AFZAL
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So here I am, working double to on my doc hoping that I don't forget anything :(

It would really help to have standard Meta Data database such as a vendor name list that can be used when saving files. Especially if the metadata can be used in the file path, and create folders if they do not exist. For example if Vendor ABC is added to the file path and the program does not find him in the invoices folder, it creates the folder and saves the file under that new vendor. If the vendor exists, then it just adds the file. You need a standard database of vendors for that to work. An entity data column would be nice or department etc. so files can be better organized. Basically a table with a number of columns that you can use to standardize the naming and location of documents.

Hello,

Our company recently moved to SharePoint and we have our libraries synced to our Adobe Acrobat app. My process beforehand was typically to open the PPT I wanted to convert to PDF, and select print to pdf. This would allow me to select slides per page and other such features.

Now my process is to navigate to the PPT i wish to convert, click on it, and select "Create PDF." (image1) This defaults to 1 page per slide and does not allow any such customization. Clicking on "Advanced Settings" doesn't include print options. (image2)

Clicking "Create", creates the PDF but as usual it defaults to 1 slide per page. (image3)

To get the desired behavior (2 slides per page), I have to click File > Print, and set the settings to the following. (image4)

This basically creates the PDF 2x, which isn't necessarily ideal from a workflow perspective. I'd love to see print options (or something similar to it) when I first go to create the PDF.

Thoughts on this?

When trying to import or export a preflight library or a profile inside a library, the "file open" dialog does not open and instead throws a warning messagebox "Error in OS call SHGetFolderPath: -2147024829". See attached screenshot. This error of course hints to something in the underlying OS, but should be handled differently by Acrobat. For example, by instead opening a "file open" dialog in some default or safe directory instead.

I tried removing the registry key HKCU\Software\Adobe and its subkeys while Acrobat was closed. Then trying again, but it did not make any difference.

Probably not fully reproducable on every computer. Might be reproducable by importing a preflight profile, then removing the directory it was in, and trying to import a preflight profile again.

OS: Windows Server 2016, up to date as of 2021/01/21 (day of posting this issue).

Lately adobe has begun integrating features of acrobat pro into reader... The buttons do not work they are just a ploy to get you online and contemplating upgrading to acrobat pro.

I have no problem with this... its a little sleazy... but whatever it's free!

My problem is that once you pay for pro... or pay 800 per year for creative cloud... those Calls to Action remain and serve as useless click bate to a product which i have already paid for.

Note i use Acrobat Pro 20x per day and need reader to review documents. I actually like the read only nature of reader.