
But no subscription is required to sign, comment on, or save them. Even though Adobe’s mobile apps may be tied to your Document Cloud, you can’t send a document out for a signature from one of them. You’ll need a desktop version of Acrobat DC that includes a Document Cloud subscription to send PDFs out for electronic signatures. The mobile version of Acrobat DC doesn’t do as much as the desktop version, of course, but the look is very similar to the desktop’s The competing DocuSign service costs $10 per month for 5 signatures or $20 per month for unlimited signatures, and you have to bring your own application (which could be Acrobat-can you say “awkward”?). You get unlimited signatures-the same level of service as you’d get from an EchoSign Pro subscription, which cost $14.99 a month, and you get the application as part of the deal. Sign on the dotted screenĪdobe’s EchoSign electronic signature service is no more-because its features are now built into Acrobat Pro DC and the Document Cloud (it’s also included with Creative Cloud subscriptions). However, you can open PDFs or other documents located on those other services in Acrobat, and they will appear in your Recent list of files in Acrobat. It’s more than a little annoying to contemplate having to subscribe to another cloud service to get things done. Document Cloud is a cloud unto itself: It has no awareness of iCloud, Amazon Cloud, DropBox, Google Drive, or any other cloud service, though full-subscription Creative Cloud customers get full access to Document Cloud.
