Software Update: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 1779.20044

Adobe has released an update to Acrobat Reader DC. Acrobat Reader DC is the successor to Acrobat XI and consists of the commercial package to create PDF documents and the free reader to be able to read them. With Reader it is also possible to create simple PDF documents via an online tool. Version 1709.20044 is referred to as a Continuous update by Adobe and should fix some minor issues. The changelog shows the following improvements:

Browser

• 4171525: IE crashing with Reader DC while accessing ACF application.
• 4183515: Acrobat IE EPM support: User need to sign in again when saving file to Document Cloud.
• 4204963: Acrobat/Reader takes 15-20 seconds to respond to close.
• 4205128: IE Crashes when “Run in AppContainer” is checked and a several refresh/ back/ forward operations are done.

scan

• 4117013: While scanning Size works in inches only, even if acrobat has different unit selected.

OCR

• 4161575: Renderable text error is thrown if OCR is run with Searchable Image Exact(SIE) or Searchable Image(SI).
• 4208627,4202367: Acrobat Crashes on OCR certain files and Pages.

sandbox

• 4183095: [PM App Container] Spell Check does not give any suggestion on misspelled words and causes Reader to crash on closing PDF.

annotations

• 4148086: Acrobat showing a lag when scrolling from one comment to another.

Collaboration

• 4201373: Authentication window keeps opening up if review was hosted under a subsite and the participant has no access on the subsite.

Send Mail

• 4180881: [Outlook 2016 64Bit]: Reader hangs for sometimes after closing the draft mail window.

viewer

• 4192958: Reader crashes when trying to overwrite an offline pdf located in redirected folder.
• 4173755: File remains selected in Recent File List thereby locking it from being edited by other apps

Compare

• 4191947: Acrobat throws Out of Memory error while comparing.