“Acrobat DC 2019” is the current subscription version of Acrobat.
“Acrobat 2017” is the most recent perpetual desktop version of Acrobat – in other words, not the latest release.
For more information, see: What Is the Document Cloud?Īcrobat continues as a desktop product in both Pro or Standard editions, and is available either via subscription or with a perpetual (one-time purchase) license. At the heart of Document Cloud is Acrobat DC – the industry standard for creating, sharing and editing PDFs – which was completely rearchitected for the initial DC 2015 milestone release several years ago. Adobe Acrobat DC 2019 is now shipping! If you hadn’t heard by now, “DC” stands for Document Cloud, which is Adobe’s set of integrated online services to help customers better manage critical documents.
