Easily view, print, and collaborate on PDF files with free Adobe Reader X software.

Adobe Reader is free software that lets you open, view, search, digitally sign, verify, and print PDF files. To date, more than 600 million copies of Adobe Reader have been distributed worldwide on 23 platforms and in 33 languages.

Reader X for desktop enables an even greater level of interaction with the ability to share feedback through the use of Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools, as well as view a larger variety of content types including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements. You can also take advantage of the added security of Protected Mode in Reader X, which helps ensure safer viewing of PDF files.

Highlights:

Access to all PDF files

• View and interact with PDF files that contain a wide variety of content types, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements.

Enhanced commenting tools

• Make notes and share your feedback with others by marking up PDF documents using the Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools.

Industry-leading security

• Take advantage of the security of Protected Mode in Reader, which helps safeguard your computer software and data from malicious code.

Online services

• Directly access online services at Acrobat.com from within Reader X. Perform common tasks such as creating PDF files, securely sharing and storing documents, and screen-sharing.

Interact with forms and rich media

• Interact with rich PDF files, including PDF Portfolios, CAD files, and multimedia content. Complete, save, and send Reader enabled forms.

Easily access PDF documents

• Feel confident that you can open and view any PDF file, regardless of which operating system you are running. Integrate with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Use online services at Acrobat.com to create, share, and store all kinds of PDF files.

What's New:

Application Security

• This release provides mitigations for vulnerabilities described in the security bulletin at http://www.adobe.com/go/apsb12_01. Products with Protected Mode or Protected view enabled are not subject to these vulnerabilities.

Export from PDF

• When a user chooses to convert a PDF to Word or Excel, a dialog offers the user the option to subscribe to the conversion service.
• The Export from PDF service now automatically recognizes text even if the original document was a scanned image.

Printing

The print dialog has been improved. The new layout makes it easier to change the page orientation, print on both sides of the paper, print multiple pages on a single sheet, print over multiple sheets, and other tasks.

Security Settings

For more details about these and other security features, see the Application Security Guide.

• Wild cards and privileged locations:
  • Wild card handling for trusted hosts now conforms to the Cross Domain Specification.
  • The error dialog for invalid trusted host names that use wildcards is improved.
  • A new preference (cTrustedSitesPrivate) allows IT to permit less restrictive wildcard usage when specifying trusted hosts.
• bDisableTrustedFolders|Sites now removes Options button from YMB when disabled and locked.
• bDisableJavaScript in HKLM allows locking the JS engine off. An admin’s privileged location list in HKLM can bypass this restriction.
• The Win OS Security Zone setting in the Privileged locations panel now includes Local Intranet zones in addition to the current Trusted Sites zone. The product should assign trust as Internet Explorer does.
• LC Workspace XFA in Flex forms will now honor Win OS trust zone override.
• Multimedia security and trust: Multimedia trust is now integrated into the Trust Manager framework and the following changes have been made:
• The following UI items are removed from Preferences > Multimedia Trust (Legacy):
  • Clear your list of trusted documents
  • Display permissions for ( ) Trusted documents ( ) Other documents
  • Legacy Multimedia trust (trust for media types that use a player other than the product’s) is now stored in the registry at cTrustManager\cMultiMedia rather than TMDocs.sav.

Protected Mode and Protected View

The following improvements and bug fixes have been made for the sandboxing feature on Windows:

• User credentials for Acrobat.com are cleared from the registry on sign out for users that have installed McAfee 8.8.
• Reader in protected mode is now compatible with Entrust software and Symantec PGP whole disk encryption.
• Blacklisted file extensions are respected when present in links.
• With Acrobat’s protected view enabled for All Files and Files from potentially unsafe locations, files in privileged locations now open outside of protected view.
• Acrobat performance is improved for form distribution workflows when a PDF is already open in PV.
• Acrobat: Acrobat now shows the 'Add reviewers' dialog when selected in Tracker for Email based reviews= and the ‘Change deadline’ feature works for the send as attachment case.
• Revocation checking that uses MSCAPI (native Microsoft or third-party Tumbleweed) now functions correctly.
• Reader performance is improved during save operations from a browser.

Signatures

• Adobe’s EchoSign service continues to be further integrated into Acrobat and Reader.
• The presence and behavior of the Sign Pane can be configured by admins via registry-level preferences.
• The performance and stability of signing operations is also improved.

Bug fixes

• On printing a PDF file to a PCL printer via Acrobat or Reader, the italic output in the printout is not correct.
• Mouseover events in interactive PDF form fields do not work properly (Applicable only to Acrobat/Reader 10.1.1).
• 3D PDFs may crash when viewed in VMWare.
• Policy protected file keeps incrementing *.DAT file in ...\Acrobat\10.0\Security and results in Reader X crashing when closing the file.
• When converting a webpage having a scrollable inline frame only the visible content is converted and content seen on scrolling down is dropped.
• Plug-in takes long time to load in the browser when rendering dynamic form on Windows XP..
• Form submission performance is slow with ZCI on Reader 10.1.
• Product view generated in Catia hides some elements when converted to prw/pdf.
• Repeatedly opening and closing PDFs in one browser session may cause a freeze or crash.
• Custom-encoded font glyphs truncated in Acrobat 10 on Windows.
• Form goes into unresponsive state when signing form.

Known issues

For a list of current issues, see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/907/cpsid_90705.html.

• 2951429: Ink Manager color swatches are broken, display in RGB, most spots missing.