Adobe Acrobat’s New Tools Help You Show Up Sharper, Faster

PDFs have a way of making even good information feel like work. A lengthy report can take forever to sift through to figure out key information, while a proposal that looked fine when you started can suddenly seem a little lackluster when it’s time to put it in front of a client or your boss.

Adobe’s latest Acrobat features are meant to make both jobs easier. Generate Report can help turn dense information into something more digestible, while Stylize gives existing documents a more polished look with just a few clicks.

That means less time digging through information or fussing with formatting so you can get directly to what matters. 

Give your PDF a glow-up without starting over

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You don’t have to be a graphic designer to know when a document could use some help. Fonts don’t quite match, pages feel cluttered and the whole thing feels more like a tax form than a professional report.

Acrobat’s new Stylize feature lets you give an existing document a more professional-looking makeover without starting from a blank page. You can use it with documents such as resumes, reports, invoices and newsletters, choosing from thousands of professionally designed templates without completely overhauling your existing content.

That could come in handy when the substance of a document is solid, but the presentation isn’t. For instance, an internal document doesn’t always need to impress, but a sales proposal headed to a prospective client probably should.

Using Stylize only takes a few steps:

1. Open or upload your document in Acrobat from your desktop web browser
2. Select Stylize from the Tools, Edit or Convert panel.
3. Choose a template to redesign the document while preserving its content.
4. Make your final edits, then download or share the finished version.

And you can keep refining the newly formatted document, so you aren’t locked into whatever the template gives you on the first try.

Make dense information easier to digest

A polished report isn’t much help if no one can figure out what it’s saying.

Adobe Acrobat’s new Interactive Reports helps turn dense source material into a format that’s easier to understand. Acrobat’s other tools can help here, too. AI Assistant lets you ask questions about your documents, while Acrobat can transform information into formats such as podcasts and visual presentations.

Say you have several lengthy reports to review before a morning meeting. Instead of reading every PDF cover to cover just to figure out what’s relevant, you could use these tools to zero in on important information or choose a format that works better for how much time and attention you have. 

You’ll still want to read the source material closely when the details matter, but getting the highlights first can help you figure out where to spend your time.

Where a PDF glow-up could actually be useful

Of course, not every PDF needs to look like it belongs in a design portfolio. Sometimes it just needs to get the job done. But plenty of work documents have to communicate information clearly and look professional while doing it.

Here are a few practical ways Stylize could come in handy:

• Sales proposals and RFP responses: Give proposals a consistent, client-ready look without rebuilding them page by page.
• Marketing briefs and one-pagers: Turn working documents into more polished collateral for sales teams or clients.
• Board and investor materials: Clean up financial statements and reports before they reach an executive audience.
• HR and onboarding documents: Give handbooks, policies and new-hire materials a clearer, more consistent look.
• Policy and compliance documents: Apply a consistent style to information that might otherwise feel dense or difficult to navigate.

Getting these kinds of documents ready to share isn’t particularly exciting, but saving time on the research, formatting and finishing touches certainly is. Interactive Reports helps you make sense of the information you’re working with, while Stylize helps turn it into a finished document you’re ready to put your name on.

Explore Stylize and Interactive Reports in Adobe Acrobat to get more out of your PDFs and give them a little more polish so you can show up sharper, faster.