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“When is Adobe Acrobat XII (v. 12) Coming Out, and What’s New?”
When Will Acrobat XII (Acrobat 12) Be Released, and What's New?
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You mention above: “So if a perpetual license is what you’re looking for, then you can still find them here.”
When you follow your link to the purchasing page, the only options you get is to subscribe.
So, to answer the question, will future Acrobat version be available in both virtual shrink-wrap and subscription? Looks like it’s tilting toward subscription only.
My guess is that governments and educational organizations will be eligible for their standard licenses, but single users may forced to subscribe if the want the latest Acrobat Pro.
Hi Mikokim, thanks for your comment. Those are good questions, but we simply don’t know the answer yet for Acrobat XII, if both perpetual vs. subscriptions will be available… So anything we could offer in response would simply be a speculation about the next version.
What we can say for sure is that you can still buy a traditional perpetual license and serial number for the current release, Acrobat XI – or a subscription. All customers still have both options.
As to why you can’t see the different product choices on Adobe’s Acrobat Store page, we can’t say. We just did it and we see the following when clicking “Buy” on any Acrobat 11 product:
I want to buy: (choose)
Full
Upgrade
Subscription
So perhaps try with a different web browser and/or computer? Did you actually click “Buy” on that page to see the different options available? (“Full” and “Upgrade” are for the standard licenses.)
The only other thing we can think of is if Adobe already took away the perpetual choices in your particular geography, but we think that’s unlikely.
ProDesign
About the link to the Acrobat Store page: I guess I’m not seeing what you are seeing — I would attach a screenshot if I could, but when I land on that link I get Acrobat XI Pro 14.99 per month at the top, followed by Acrobat XI standard 11.99 per month followed by Adobe Export PDF 23.88 per year etc…
If I click any buy option, I’d begin CC. For me, nowhere do I see Full, Upgrade, Subscription options. Sorry — either you’re posting a wrong link, or you have privileged access to another page. :D
No – did you actually try it?
If/when you click the “Buy” on that page, then you’ll get to select the type of product you want – subscription or perpetual (using the “I want to buy:” option) – and then select “Add to Cart” to add your chosen product to your shopping cart.
(Don’t worry, your credit card is entered at the very end when you check out, if you choose to purchase anything.)
Please, when you try it, you’ll see. Then, let us know. Otherwise, we’re not going to get anywhere.
Hi again — yes I clicked Buy and only saw Subscription for Acrobat XI Pro or Standard. However, then I noticed a small down arrow that does give you selection options. Sneaky; instead of check boxes, you get subscription by default. Anyway, my bad — I tried it but didn’t see the drop-down menu at first.
Anyway, so it looks, for now, they still offer a “traditional” version for purchase. Sorry about the confusion.
No worries Mikokim – glad to hear you found it, and thanks for letting us know!
By the way, Adobe has always had that dropdown menu there to select whether you wanted “Full” or “Upgrade” (that’s not new); just now they’ve added the new option for “Subscription” – which you’re right is the new default, likely because the price displayed is a lot lower.
So in other other words:
– we don’t know when it’ll come out
– there’s nothing new
– it’ll cost more and you have to subscribe to it
All part of the classic Adobe experience!
No, not really Art – in fact what Adobe actually said was:
– Acrobat XII will definitely be released next year.
– Some of what’s new is hinted in the article above, and the rest will be revealed when the new version ships (as is customary).
– Product pricing and license availability (i.e., one-time upfront vs. monthly membership) are yet to be announced.
Hope that’s clearer.
I hope Adobe will finally add the ability to make links within a pdf open in a new browser tab. Right now this can only be accomplished with a javascript that doesn’t work on many devices.
If you have a 10mb pdf file full of links to other pdfs open in your browser, you need those links to open in new windows rather than the original window. Lots of people are asking for this feature, let’s hope Adobe listens.
Thanks, great suggestion – and we will pass it on to reinforce the request!
If Adobe adopts an Acrobat subscription-only model it will lose my business. I’ve been a user of Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle Designer for quite a while, as well as an Adobe Premiere user since v5.0. Nevertheless, my next purchase of video editing software will not be Premiere (currently I’m on a perpetual CS6 license). The same would be true for Acrobat. There are some good alternatives to Premiere available but not so many for Acrobat at the moment. However, I hope that some viable options will emerge for users like myself. That said, I’m not a professional user – so I don’t carry much weight in terms of Adobe’s customer profiling!
I hope 2 features will work better in Adobe XII
– Easy, one-click fonts-to-curves conversion and as an option to do it automatically when producing a PDF file via Adobe PDF printer. In Acrobat XI you have to create PDF first, then embedd invisible watermark in it and only then transforming fonts to curves may happer properly.
– Security across different devices. Now if I block changes and printing and secure file with a password, I can’t open that file on iPad – every app asks for password and won’t even open file even after providing a proper password. Besides, there is no option to block printing but to allow other changes. There are very few protection options to choose from!
I have wondered because i got many emails regarding acrobat XI, why do they offer it at this time so many times !?
I gave adobe a call, they cant say anything about acrobat version xii – only when i buy i will get the upgrade to xii for free.
The thing is, i own Acrobat 9 Standard and if i wait for Acrobat xii then i cant upgrade to this version because only the last two versions work for an upgrade.
So i need perfect timing to buy the upgrade to XI PRO, and then get the free Upgrade for XII within the 60 days period.
And they told me i have to be active – when i buy a in few weeks/months the upgrade to XI Pro and i will get a free upgrade to XII Pro, i have to give them a call! Otherwise nothing will happen!
Yes, that’s the way it works with Adobe’s grace period for a free upgrade…
Once you buy the current product, you have a 30-day window to return or exchange it. If the next release comes out during that month-long window, then you basically get a free upgrade to the newer version instead.
However, as you noted, that is mostly some guesswork or luck on the timing! Hopefully the article above helps a bit on that.
For someone who is not upgrading from Acrobat 9 like you (which is a unique situation because of the two-versions-back upgrade limitation), then it may be better to just to wait a bit to when Acrobat XII comes out, if possible. Or get started with the 30-day Acrobat XI free trial in the meantime.
Otherwise, the easiest/simplest thing to do is get Acrobat Pro via subscription, and then there is no issue on timing because you’ll automatically get all ongoing upgrades at no extra cost (including Acrobat XII) as soon as they’re available.
subscription is not an option for me – sorry!
When they once announce the new version, then can i still buy version XI ?
Or is the announcement day = the same for buying, and i would get only the new Acrobat XII version ?
I think the new release will be coming in june/july – i am waiting for the perfect timing :D
Well, to wait until June or July 2015 for Acrobat 12 to come out would definitely be too late…!
Adobe said clearly in their most recent conference call that the new Acrobat XII version would be released in the first half of Fiscal Year 2015:
For Adobe, that period finishes at the end of May 2015.
So, you should expect Acrobat 12 to be shipping by that time. And once they make the announcement, they will switch over everything in the store and it may not be possible to buy the previous version any longer, if that’s what you’re trying to do with your upgrade.
Hope that helps!
Well this helps a lot!
Thank you very much :)
Sure Mappi, we really hope it works out for you! If we hear more, we will post it on this page as well as contact you directly via your email.
@Mappi75
Hello again Mappi – good news – here it is, the time is now!
Adobe Introduces New Acrobat “DC” (ver. 12) – with Document Cloud
one wish i have for version 12:
Multicore support!
As i mentioned, i use version 10 pro and its slow on a i7-4960x cpu.
Yes indeed, and 64-bit support is another popular new feature request for Acrobat XII. Thanks for sharing your feedback!
Hope that there will be a “traditional” version, i.e., perpetual license for Acrobat XII.
But, it seems that this is very less possible.
We have the 9 and XI. But I work mainly on Acrobat 9. the XI is only for occasional use: the fact that we cannot set only one line toolbar in XI drives me crazy…
Just thinking more about this – it’s possible that “Acrobat Next” (whatever the next version is ultimately called) could be launched in conjunction with the next major release of Creative Cloud, since Acrobat is one of the major applications included and bundled within.
That upgraded product line – “CC 2015” – should be coming out sometime this spring. Comparing historically, CC 2014 was announced on June 18th, 2014, and CC 2013 was unveiled on June 17th, 2013.
(No guarantees of course; this is just one idea, and it’s possible the next version of Adobe Acrobat could be shipping sooner than that.)
[UPDATE: March 17th – The next version of Acrobat has been announced!]
@Mappi75
Adobe prefers to steer professional customers toward their LiveCycle products, which are licensed on a ‘per-CPU’ basis (one license per two CPU cores). For light users, there’s Acrobat, which will limp along on one core.