• PDF Spaces are like mini cloud storage drives for sharing PDFs and generating visual content
• A new productivity agent helps you to create files from PDFs, and even edit PDFs themselves
• You'll need a pricy Acrobat Studio plan to access PDF Spaces, though

Adobe has declared the traditional email attachment is no longer fit for purpose and has introduced a new style of PDF sharing to support the latest era of human-AI collaboration.

Described as an evolution of Acrobat AI Assistant, Adobe's PDF Spaces is said to be a proactive tool that does more than just responding to prompts, offering up summaries and audio guidance for ease of access.

"We’re introducing a new way to share information," Adobe Document Cloud VP Abhigyan Modi wrote in a blog post.

Adobe reinvents PDF sharing after inventing the PDF

The update comes as PDF usage continues to soar – Acrobat users send more than 200 million of them annually, opening up a staggering 400 billion every year.

The new productivity agent covers a lot of ground, generating images, text and other file types like presentations, podcasts and social media posts from your PDFs, but it can also be used for conversational PDF editing within Acrobat to save having to jump between file types.

At the core of Adobe's new sharing system are "interactive experiences," rather than plain files and links. On top of the generative AI tools we've come to expect in the Creative Cloud suite, a new productivity agent gets to work to "generate summaries, answer questions, provide guidance and tell you who’s engaging." A demo shows the agent generating interactive decks that serve as a first point of contact for recipients before they dive deeper into individual PDFs.

Much like a cloud storage drive, businesses can create their own space with branding, PDFs, documents, links and notes.

Adobe's PDF Spaces functionality is available in the Acrobat Studio plan, priced at $24.99/month on an annual commitment. The productivity agent is also available across all Adobe Acrobat AI Plans.

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