Adobe Acrobat DC20.012.20041

• That $14.99? It's for the PRO version. It's PER MONTH. And you have to commit for a year. • The Standard version is $12.99 PER MONTH, with a year commitment. Move along to better apps and deals is my suggestion.

I tried Acrobat DC over the past week and I have now gotten rid of it. There are several reasons 1) much of this app is still 32 BIT, when I talked to support about potential issues with Mojave I was told Adobe had no timetable for correcting this. 2) This app is horribly slow! I have the top of the line 2017 5K Retina iMac with 64 GIGs of RAM running Mojave 10.14.1. To open a 32 page, non-scanned PDF it took over 90seconds as it was "preparing the document for reading." After this prep work I saved the file and reopened it and the same operation was initiated. Why? 3) Acrobat is horrible at reading a document to you. The voices are terrible and at times difficult to understand. If you choose to use the Mac's voice capabilities, there are no instructions on how to do it. First you have to disable the apps default voice, then you must disable the default rate and volume, if you don't the Mac voice will be seriously distorted. 4) I found the support to be less than helpful, and somewhat hostile when asked about the 32 BIT components. The attitude towards trying to correct some of the problems was dismissive of my abilities to manage my own Mac. Finally, if you want see how bad this app is, try PDF Expert, or even Apple's default reader and you will find the they will open any PDF almost instantly. They read your PDF without special prep. And, above all THERE IS NO SUBSCRIPTION to an app that is horribly deficient.

*AHEM* Version 17.009.20058 of Adobe Acrobat is INSECURE. It was released April 4, 2017. This means MU is WAY behind reporting Acrobat updates.

August 8th 2017 Adobe will have released a SECURITY PATCHED new version of both Acrobat and Reader that patches major security holes! BE CERTAIN TO UPDATE August 8th ! ! !

Adobe posts Security Bulletins here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html

Looking for the link for the 11.0.20x version. Screw the DC version

Adobe has announced a Security Bulletin announcing "critical  vulnerabilities" in the following versions of Acrobat and Reader.: DC: 15.017.20053 and earlier versions DC Classic: 15.006.30201 and earlier version XI Desktop: 11.0.17 and earlier versions Presumably, DC version 2015.020.20039 addresses these vulnerabilities. Although, note that it is dated September 30th. Further security bulletins will be posted at: https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html

The update for Acrobat Pro 11.0.14 for Mac does not work. I received the following error message: The Installation failed. The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. I have tried it on three different Macs with the previous version 11.0.03 installed. All received the same error message. Not a good start to the year for Adobe and Mac :-)

To me the worst UI design and hence the worst UX of 2015 from a big brand company belongs to Adobe Acrobat DC.

Pining for the brilliance of the stable, customisable, intuitive days of ACROBAT PRO 9...

...yuh know, those halcyon days when you could actually get stuff done without 3 crashes a day, plus tweak the sensible interface to your heart's content.

Whichever/whomever wannabe-Mensa candidate at Adobe who was given the reins of the Acrobat project after 9, has created the start of this utter spiral of destruction with the insanely unstable XI, and then completely flailed in the wind with this uber-abortion called DC should be taken outside and... [insert punishment].

Arrogant Adobe at its utter worst. Shameful.

I thought it the latest version would be more stable.

This is a completely unusable update. I uninstalled it once (since you cannot have both DC and XI installed at the same time) and just uninstalled it a second time after giving it another go. Everything that used to take one step, like opening a file, now takes two slower steps. Confusing file management windows pop up and can't be turned off. The final blow came today when I discovered that QuickView no longer worked in the Mail program. Wake up, Adobe!

Quite possibly the worst piece of junk in the software universe in terms of UI and UX.

It finally dawned on me where Adobe is going with all these cloud based applications. Large information service providers of all kinds have been moving to the cloud for some years now. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle and IBM offer IT services to these and others that reduce or even eliminate the need for them to have their own IT departments. Software and updates as well as data storage services are provided remotely in the cloud so that they don't have to be maintained and supported locally. Following this trend Adobe has been assiduously developing cloud services for creative professionals; hosting their apps in the cloud is an essential part of this strategy. The reason this is so important is that in order to provide their services in a consistent and reliable manner they need their clients to have the same versions of their applications, all with the latest updates installed. Microsoft began to move their software to the cloud with Office 360, though they've not been as ruthless as Adobe in coercing people to use it – though Microsoft also provides a variety of remote services. Outlook has long operated that way. Now they are planning Windows 10 as a service, providing updates and upgrades via the cloud, which will enable them to likewise keep their products consistent and, one hopes, reliable on every desktop, laptop, game console and remote device. This will replace the periodic release of new versions of Windows, that were the bane of every large IT department. Which may explain why they finally provided iOS versions of their office applications. It's consistent with their Windows everywhere meme. Apple has their own version of this strategy. All of their software and software updates are hosted in the cloud. Apple has been even more brutal than Microsoft and even Adobe in cutting off support for legacy software. Now that they've released Photos for Yosemite, iPhoto is no longer available, even for earlier versions of OS X – for which Photos is not available. They make Adobe seem like a virtual paragon of customer concern. Sadly, Apple's cloud services are among the weakest and most underdeveloped out there. Doing it right is no longer part of their gestalt. Before this I hadn't understood the full context of Adobe's product strategy. Unfortunately the fact that security in the cloud is still tenuous at best hasn't slowed development of cloud services noticeably for anyone. Caveat emptor.

I refuse to RENT software, and not from Microsoft either. I've abandoned Photoshop and now I'm abandoning Acrobat Pro. Currently I have Acrobat Pro X, but would really appreciate any suggestions of what to replace this with. I welcome any suggestions please. Thanks in advance!

>>Note: Instructions on how to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and reinstall Acrobat Pro 11 can be found here.<< Very important because you will be reinstalling v11. DC is a joke, a huge step backward in useability.

The Cloud Requirement prevents me from going 11.xxx. I sail and do not have 24/7 connectivity to the cloud. The subscription registration is crap. Adobe won't suffer without my $20 a month, but I won't feel bad about not giving to them either. Like WordPerfect, WordStar, Corel Paint, et al, your working for the corner.

Not the best application for PDF reading and annotating (I use Skim for that) but still indispensable for processing/editing/optimizing PDFs. In an attempt to get rid of my dependency of overpriced and ugly Adobe software I tried combinations of various Mac PDF processing tools (PDFpen, PDF Squeezer and similar) but none of them gets the job properly done. I don’t like Acrobat, it can get really slow and some releases are rather buggy, but if you are working with PDFs on a professional level there is – unfortunately – no alternative.

There is a 10.1.10 update available - fire up Pro 10.1.9 and check for updates, will d/l the updater and install.

Long time user but this latest release (11) is buggy. Crashes frequently when searching or for any number of other unknown reasons (and not just me - widely reported in various forums). When it works it works well. Unfortunately the very frequent crashes make it difficult to rate this well. Newest version (11.0.7) reports bug fixes but release notes not available on line so I don't know whether these issues have been addressed.

Expensive but best for PDF's. If you work a lot with this file type it's a must-have app.

List of changes for 11.0.03 http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotes/11/11.0.03.html#elevenzerozerothree

Hmm, is there a way to reset the trial to get more time?

There may be no viable alternatives to Acrobat Pro, but come on, Adobe, this is version 11 and you still don't have tabs and palettes like the rest of the CS6 apps? And why can I still not page down after zooming in, then back out, on a page? Or save a Word doc as a PDF and retain hyperlinks, as I can in Windows? Adobe charged something like $299 to upgrade from Pro 9 to Pro X, and they want another $299 to upgrade from Pro X to Pro XI, and for what?

They can't be serious...$299 for an "updater"? And for such an impoverished set of new "features"? Wow. Just wow. I'll pass.

I must have spent thousands on Acrobat Pro over the years... still, the Mac version is far from feature parity with Windows. This is especially aggravating since there is no "Standard" version for the Mac, only "Pro". To anyone who has seen version 11 for the Mac: Does the Microsoft Office to PDF conversion now work as expected (meaning, does it include clickable hyperlinks and other meta information)? or is it still just a glorified wrapper around "Print to PDF"?

I use Adobe Acrobat professionally and love it BUT... WT_ is Adobe doing making such a pathetic installer? This is BY FAR the worse installer for a major app that I have seen in many years (personally for me... ever). I just had to do an uninstall and reinstall to get it to update and Acrobat ended up in an INVISIBLE folder with a self created path consisting of many empty folders! WT_ F?!

One of the worst update systems of all applications!! Must apply each update as it is released and if you alter (i.e. add a plugin the next updater doesn't 'like' you'll have to go back and completely reinstall Acrobat and apply every single updater one-at-a-time again!! Can't live without Adobe and you can't live with them! My rating is ONLY for the updater. I give the Acrobat Pro app 5 stars.

Sigh - has anyone actually got this to work? The updater grinds through its stuff and at the end a big dialog box pops up that says 'The Installation Failed!". Anyone have any clues as to WTF?

Ok, this last update 10.0.2 was a tiny update and actually easy to upgrade. It looks like Adobe FINALLY decided to bless us after all this time with a manageable update process. I'd probably be more happy about it except for the fact it took them a very long time to stop the extremely stupid habits of before. That said, as a public service I should let everyone know that 10.0.2 was very helpful in fixes major stablility issues I was having with it. It was freezing up whenever I tried to open PDF's created with MS Work 2011. If Adobe keeps this up, I might even forgive them for that horrid update practice they kept up for so long at our expense.... some day.

If I use TouchUP tools (edit object), than I can't edit any image. I have this: Acrobat cannot start the image editing application you've specified. Verify the image editing application location on the TouchUP panel in Preferences. I verifyed, but nothing happend. If I do again, I see the location is in the app, not over the app. Please chage it very fast, because I need it! I don't reinstall Acrobat or Photoshop, give me other solution:)

It failed to install because of a "case-sensitive" volume issue. I simply cannot believe we still need to care about cases to install software. Adobe should list a "case-insensitive" volume as one of installation requirements.

How much do you wanna bet it's 5 Gb big and does half at half speed than prev version.

What's going on with Adobe? A brand new, you-beaut v10 of Acrobat and we should all switch to Windows to try out the demo before we part with our money? Are Mac users now tarred with the 'unimportant brush', or is there some other reason we don't get a demo to test Adobe's claims? Questions, questions, questions ...

A crock! I have Acrobat 9.3.4 installed (as part of CS4) and the updater fails (error 1301) telling me the application has been modified (it hasn't - vanilla install ex Adobe DVD CS4). Able to update Reader to 9.4 easily enough. Tried to update from within Acrobat and that failed also, predictably. Amazing to think Adobe can't write software to update Adobe software. Zero stars for poor software.

I wish Adobe would create a combo updater that would update any previous 9.x version to the current. It is time-consuming to sequentially update each version patch if you have a workgroup of Macs to update.

This 9.3.2 updater and the Adobe Reader updater went irretrievably off the rails for both of my Macs, which don't have Adobe's internet browser plug-in enabled, forcing restarts Each time, I got an unclickable, unselectable window in the middle of the updater asking if I wanted to use the plug-in/repair my install. And there I was stuck, thanks so much Adobe. This company's updaters are unbelievably lame, leaving me to wonder this time if my Acrobat Pro and Reader 9.3.2 installs are alright. Pathetic.

This update actually worked for me. From Acrobat Pro 9.3.0 to 9.3.1 on a nehalem MacPro running 10.6.2. Maybe I lucked out? Maybe Adobe got it right this time? Go figure (again).

Alternative (and superior, imho) app for OCR: Abbyy Finereader Express. Bonus - Works beautifully in conjunction with Fuji ScanSnap and is a fraction of the cost of Acrobat at $99.00. You can find it here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32172/abbyy-finereader-express You can fill out forms, overlay text, graphics, draw on, and edit pdfs with any number of free or low cost alternative apps. Two of my favorites freebies are Skim and Formualte Pro: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24590/skim http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19911/formulatepro

What's the point of continuing to pipe money into the Adobe coffers? Adobe's products are bloated, their installers stink, and they have lousy response time for resolving reported issues. There are several free or inexpensive PDF applications out there. My favorite is PDFpenPro, which is a fraction of the price, faster and more Mac like than anything Adobe has to offer. Adobe is trying to appease share holders...it's only a matter of time before the public picks up on this. Enterprise environments have a huge stake in Adobe products (read: they're stuck). Consumers and freelance/SOHO users are not. Don Montalvo, TX

Doesn't see Acrobat Pro 9.1.3 to update. All files (Pro, Distiller etc) are shaded grey and unselectable. Vanilla install of Acrobat Pro from CS4 DVD with updates to 9.1.3 and then thats it????????????????? Adobe ranks right up there with M$ re customer satisfaction is concerned as far as I am concerned - after using Macs for 25+ years, only Adobe and M$ give me so much grief.

Forgot to mention - running Vanilla install of CS4 - no plugins removed, no language files removed, no modifications from original CS4 installation other than Adobe updates to 9.1.3!!! Just tried the updater on a second machine [mirror door G4 desktop) (also unmodified CS4 install) and failed to upgrade: ".. application modified, plugins disabled.." yada yada yada. Negative Adobe - CS4 DVD install and fails to upgrade... is anyone from Adobe reading this?