Remove or have an option to turn of document caching in Acrobat
As an agency, we prepare artwork in Indesign and PDF to send to clients. All work is proofed within Acrobat prior to sending and amended if required.
Any amends are re-pdf'd and re-proofed. These amends need to stay under the same version no (read file name) but unfortunately Acrobat now caches pdfs so if we amends a document within indesign and re-open in acrobat with the same file name, it will open the older cached version and not the updated version.
Because this is our internal proof, this file name and version no needs to stay the same before we send to our client so that to them its just the next consecutive proof no from the last version we sent.
We therefore require an option to turn off document caching in acrobat as it is creating workflow issues when proofing. It also allows for error as we now have to rename files and then rename back before sending to clients.
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I can't believe Adobe implemented something like this, it makes absolutely no sense to me, and since they did implement it, they absolutely positively need to create a way to disable it.
Example steps to reproduce:
I scanned a collection of documents and named it "scans.pdf" I did my work with them and deleted the file off of the desktop and emptied the trash.
Later, I then scanned a different group of documents, named it the same "scans.pdf" and when I open that file in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2020.009.20074 guess what happened? You got it, it loaded the old file which I had already moved to the trash and emptied.
If I open the document in Preview, of course it is the correct document, but Adobe keeps opening a cached version of it.
Simple workaround:
I renamed the file (to "get-a-clue-adobe.pdf") and since the name changed, it now opens the correct document.