Transitioning to Adobe Acrobat Studio for Education from the Creative Cloud Suite

 

 

Audience: Students transitioning from a full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite license.

 

Acrobat Studio for Education provides students with tools focused on PDF creation, editing, and collaboration.

This license is designed specifically for student academic use.

 

 

 

 

 

What Students Will Still Have Access To

Students moving from a full Creative Cloud Suite license will no longer have access to the full suite of creative applications.

However, the Acrobat Studio for Education license includes:

 

 

  • Adobe Acrobat Pro, DC Standard and Reader
  • Adobe Express and Photoshop Express Premium
  • Adobe Services: Firefly, Express Premium, Portfolio, Fonts, Stock (w/ Express), PDF services and DC cloud storage, Sign transactions, Community access
  • Core PDF tools for editing, commenting, organizing, signing, and exporting documents
  • Cloud-based storage for Acrobat and Express projects

 

Adobe Express remains available for quick design work such as flyers, social media graphics, presentations, and simple videos.

Applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other full Creative Cloud desktop apps are not included with this license.

 

 

 

 

 

Key Differences: Acrobat Studio vs. Creative Cloud Suite

Acrobat Studio’s focus is document workflows and collaboration with an essential selection of web and mobile apps for multimedia creation.

 

 

Acrobat Studio

  • Robust support for PDF review, editing and collaboration on desktop and web.
  • Designed for collaboration and document workflows
  • Ideal if you primarily need Adobe Acrobat for work along with some light, creative applications.
  • Less expensive and minimal compared to Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

 

 

 

Creative Cloud Suite

  • A comprehensive suite of advanced creative desktop software
  • Professional, advanced applications that can meet almost every creative need
  • A better choice if you anticipate needing to customize and fine tune your creative work flows
  • Recommended if you are planning to build a professional career in a creative field and want to learn advanced tools.

 

 

Students who only need PDF editing, markup, document organization, and digital signatures will find Acrobat Studio fully sufficient for academic work.

 

Students requiring advanced creative production features should consider paying extra for the Creative Cloud application suite.