Adobe Add-In / Save As | Voters

Adobe Add-In / Save As

planned (general)

Maria

A LexWorkplace add-in (plugin) for Adobe Acrobat. Functionality would include the ability to 'Save/Save-As' PDF documents to LexWorkplace from within the Acrobat application (rather than saving elsewhere/locally, then dragging to LexWorkplace).

April 18, 2022

Joseph Boucher

Yes, this would be great and I think necessary as there is no way to version a PDF.

Christine Coletta

This would be incredibly helpful!

Ann Badmus

this would be great! most programs can do this so I'm surprised this has not been done. It was so much easier with Worldox!

Liz Gibbons

If I had realized that LexWorkplace was not going to "play nicely" with Adobe, that would have been a deal killer for LexWorkplace. Is there a paralegal in any transactional practice who doesn't need to manipulate Adobe documents quickly, easily, and often? I HATE LexWorkplace and wish we had gone in a different direction when we left Worldox.

Timothy DePaula

This would be helpful, but in addition to Adobe, with other PDF software, like Foxit PDF Editor

Scott Birnbaum

I'm a new user. I think this feature is absolutely vital.

Rhonda J.

I’m new here and this thread, which is highly-relevant IMHO is over 2 years old. Has there been any progress with adding an Adobe add-in to Lex? Is there a timeline for rolling this out?

LexWorkplace Product Team

Rhonda J.: Hi Rhonda J., welcome to the community! This feature is definitely on our roadmap (planned), though the exact time is TBD. Given the demand is relatively high, I would expect we'll build this late 2024 or in 2025.

LexWorkplace Product Team

Hi everyone, a note that some of you may find useful:
You CAN still drag pages from one PDF to another (for instance, adding a page from "Exhibit A" to an existing PDF "Exhibit B").  To do this, open both PDF from LexWorkplace.  Then, in the Page Explorer section (left sidebar in Adobe Acrobat), drag any page to the corresponding PDF tab (top of Adobe).
I think some users may not know this was an option in Acrobat.  (And this is a slightly different process if you're used to doing this in Windows Explorer).
If anyone would like clarification, please feel free to reply here and I'll reach out.  
Thank you all.

Alexandra J.

LexWorkplace Product Team: The issue is that you cannot save a PDF directly to LexWorkplace. For instance, if you save a word doc to PDF, you have to save the PDF locally and then drag to LexWorkplace. It is a big time suck!!

LexWorkplace Product Team

Alexandra J.: Yes, 100% agreed. This would be one of the capabilities of a future Adobe Add-in.

LexWorkplace Product Team

updated the status to

planned (general)

LexWorkplace Product Team

Hi Maria and Juliana - Thank you for sharing your feedback. Yes - I would be very happy to jump on a call with screen sharing with you both, and demonstrate your workflow (and how you'd ideally like LexWorkplace to function). I will email you both individually shortly to schedule a call.

Thank you both!

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