Adobe Acrobat 6.0 quits unexpectedly

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I recently purchased a new Mac Mini and I'm reinstalling my old software that i used on my G4. I've been to the adobe site and didn't have much luck, just followed link after link that led to no answers. Anyway I am using Adobe acrobat 6.0 Standard, it installed without issue, but when i try to run the application, as soon as the main screen appears it immediately crashes and tells me it unexpectedly quit. Tried several times. I've deleted and reinstalled again, rebooted, but to no avail. Anybody have thoughts on a solution? This ran perfectly on my G4 from 03' to present...
 
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Try running it in Rosetta mode. Right click the icon, select Get Info, select Open using Rosetta.
 
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Try running it in Rosetta mode. Right click the icon, select Get Info, select Open using Rosetta.

I did what you said, but when I selected, "get info" it didn't give me an option to, "open using Rosetta mode"..... :Oops:
 
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Acrobat 6.0 is ancient. It always runs in Rosetta. I'm surprised it runs at all on Leopard or Snow Leopard. It is certainly not supported on either OS.

I doubt you'll be able to do much without upgrading.
 
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As I recall Acrobat 8.0 did not run on Leopard. 8.1.2 was the first version that was Leopard compatible. And Snow Leopard is even more picky than Leopard was. Unfortunately, you're going to need to upgrade.
 
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As I recall Acrobat 8.0 did not run on Leopard. 8.1.2 was the first version that was Leopard compatible. And Snow Leopard is even more picky than Leopard was. Unfortunately, you're going to need to upgrade.
Ok. I went and checked out an upgrade to 9.0, but it says, "windows platform" will that work on my Mini?
 
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I need "Acrobat". Adobe "Reader" is a different program, but thanks. "Reader" just allows you to look/view PDF files, but "Acrobat" allows you to create PDF files. Thankyou though. How's the weather down under?
 
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If all you need is Acrobat, use Preview instead. If you need to create PDF's on a Mac, that's built in to the Print window when you to go print a document. Just do cmd+p, then in the print window, bottom left, there's a PDF menu to "print a PDF" copy to your hard drive.
 
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If all you need is Acrobat, use Preview instead. If you need to create PDF's on a Mac, that's built in to the Print window when you to go print a document. Just do cmd+p, then in the print window, bottom left, there's a PDF menu to "print a PDF" copy to your hard drive.
Thanks, I already do that some, but I scan documents to create PDF's, not just a simple file conversion. Can preview scan in documents to be PDF's?
 
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Think your only option is to bite the bullet and purchase the latest version of Acrobat as 6 is not upgradeable unless you are a Windows user it would appear.
 

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