We are happy to announce the release of our first update of Adobe Reader Touch for Windows 8, just a little over a month after our launch.
We’ve heard a lot of great feedback from users over the past month about what they want to see added most, and we got a few of those changes out today. You should see that an update is available now!
The changes we added are:
Easier document navigation with a keyboard and mouse
We had focused so much on the Surface experience that we missed an important detail…providing an easy way for mouse users to know how to zoom in and out! It was always possible using the standard shortcut keys: Ctrl-”+” to zoom in, Ctrl-”-” to zoom out, and Ctrl-Mousewheel to zoom as you choose, but those are hidden. We added a simple [+] and [-] buttons to the screen for mouse users now! They’ll only appear when you’re using a mouse, so they aren’t in the way for touch users.
View Sticky Notes
We didn’t have this annotation displaying in our initial release, but we’ve added it in this update. And we’re busy working on allowing you to add new sticky notes, too. That should be available in our next update, along with highlighting text.
Name Change to Adobe Reader Touch
You may notice that our “Metro” version is now called Adobe Reader Touch. This will help users who have hybrid desktop systems tell which version of Adobe Reader is which in the Windows UI and control panels.
We’re still working on getting printing finished, and we plan to have that available as soon as it is. And we’ve got some other exciting things on the way as well!
Dennis Griffin
Principal Product Manager
Adobe Reader for Tablets and Smartphones
Comments
hi I was looking for this sticky note option in Adobe reader touch. However, it does not appear on my tablet. I tried to add several sticky notes but I could not do that. Can you tell me how can I do that.
Thanks
Arif
We are working on enhancing Reader to allow adding of notes, but for now we can show existing notes.
pdf files created with adobe reader do not open in reader touch. touch says the files are corrupt. These same files open in regular reader. this is a new laptop running windows 8. all apps are current. I only downloaded regular reader to verify the files are not corrupt. any fix for this
if you could email a sample document to adobereader-windowsrt@adobe.com, we can look into fixing Reader Touch to render the document.
Ps, When on using a Surface RT, the Windows Reader can’t print annotations in a PDF file. I created a USPS shipping label and they use annotations to print the bar codes and the postage codes. Your view displays the annotations but can’t print, Microsoft reader can print, but not the annotations. Again, hurry up with the printing.
We are working on it, and will definitely be printing the annotations and forms contents when we update!
Why can’t I open the secure files on the web site?
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the question. Are these LiveCycle Rights Managed documents? If so, then for now you will need to get the desktop version of Reader if you are using an Intel device.
Please advise when printing facility available for windows 8 & Adobe Reader; it’s b!@#$%^ frustrating without it
We are working hard on this, and hope to have it out soon, but we want to make sure that it works properly before we release it. This is absolutely the highest priority item we have!
Hallo
Ihre Hilfe ist nur englisch bin aber deutsch und kann kein ausländisch
Wie kann ich mit Adobe Touch win8 drucken?
Danke
Der Druck ist jetzt verfügbar
ALL ADOBE PRODUCTS VERY GOOD WORKING AND MUST IMPORTACE
I think the update may be more attractive..
sometimes adobe opens up my school docs and sometimes it says adobe file is corrupt and cannot open. why does this happen?
If you have specific files that you can share that do not open, please send them to adobereader-windowsrt@adobe.com with an explanation, and we can take a look.
I seem to have found a bug: PDF’s created on my laptop using HP Scanner software are unreadable by the Touch version, though they read fine using Adobe Reader XI. Adobe Reader Touch says “The document cannot be opened because it is corrupted or damaged.” Not a huge problem, as I can read the majority of PDFs using Reader XI, but thought you might like to know if you’re unaware of it.
Thanks for the info. I believe that we’ve fixed this bug, and the fix will be part of our next update.
Can it really be that I cannot print anything using Adobe and windows 8 – I need a boarding card which automatically opens as a PDF
We now have printing supported in our Windows 8 Store version of Reader
When will we be able to fill out PDF forms on Adobe Reader touch for Windows 8?
We are working on it, but do not yet have a date for when it will be ready to release.