- PDF Spaces are like mini cloud storage drives for sharing PDFs and generating visual content
- A new productivity agent helps you create files from PDFs and even edit PDFs yourself
- However, you need an expensive Acrobat Studio plan to access PDF Spaces
Adobe has declared that the traditional attachment is no longer fit for purpose and has introduced a new style of PDF sharing to support the latest era of human-AI collaboration.
Described as an evolution of Acrobat AI Assistant, Adobe’s PDF Spaces is said to be a proactive tool that does more than just respond to prompts, offering summaries and audio guidance for easy access.
“We’re introducing a new way to share information,” Adobe Document Cloud VP Abhigyan Modi wrote in a blog post.
Adobe is reinventing PDF sharing after inventing the PDF
The update comes as PDF usage continues to rise — Acrobat users send more than 200 million of them annually, opening up a staggering 400 billion each year.
The new productivity agent covers a lot, generating images, text and other file types like presentations, podcasts and social media from your PDFs, but it can also be used for conversational PDF editing in Acrobat to save you having to jump between file types.
At the heart of Adobe’s new sharing system are “interactive experiences” rather than ordinary files and links. In addition to the generative AI tools we’ve come to expect in the Creative Cloud suite, a new productivity agent begins to “generate summaries, answer questions, provide guidance and tell you who’s engaging.” A demo shows the agent generating interactive decks that act as a first point of contact for recipients before they dive deeper into individual PDFs.
Like a cloud storage drive, businesses can create their own space with branding, PDFs, documents, links and notes.
Adobe’s PDF Spaces functionality is available in the Acrobat Studio plan for $24.99/month on an annual commitment. The Productivity Agent is also available across all Adobe Acrobat AI plans.
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