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I was erroneously under the impression that Acrobat was gone to stay, at least the free PDF reader version. When I upgraded to Catalina it was just gone. Subsequent reading online seemed to confirm that only a subscription based model was available for macOS 15 but I was wrong.
After trying ad ridden alternatives and partly functional free alternatives from the App Store I persevered with searching the internet until I came across this site; Acrobat and macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility
Despite all of the technical babble it gave me hope that I could reinstall a version that worked and was free at least for all of the basic features.
What I found was that although the numerous photographic panels seem to suggest you might have to spend quite a while setting up the whole process, at least for me was as simple as pie except for one thing. Where do I download it?
I puzzled over this for a while until whilst looking at the header then simply clicked on the Adobe Acrobat icon at the top of the page on the line which includes "Learn an Support" and "Get Started".
That took me to this page; Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, free PDF viewer download .The Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, free PDF viewer download
You will see that this version (the left one) is the 2019 version suitable for macOS 10.12 - 10.15.
It was now apparent that the wordy instructions were more to do with installing Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat 2015[FONT=adobe-clean, HelveticaNeue-light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
Once downloaded and running it did ask for permission access to a few things all of which I approved, I then checked for updates which brought me up to 2019.021.20056.
A quick change to View > Display Theme > Dark Grey and I have this;
Back the way it was before the Catalina upgrade. I logged in with my old credentials with no problems.
After trying ad ridden alternatives and partly functional free alternatives from the App Store I persevered with searching the internet until I came across this site; Acrobat and macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility
Despite all of the technical babble it gave me hope that I could reinstall a version that worked and was free at least for all of the basic features.
What I found was that although the numerous photographic panels seem to suggest you might have to spend quite a while setting up the whole process, at least for me was as simple as pie except for one thing. Where do I download it?
I puzzled over this for a while until whilst looking at the header then simply clicked on the Adobe Acrobat icon at the top of the page on the line which includes "Learn an Support" and "Get Started".
That took me to this page; Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, free PDF viewer download .The Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, free PDF viewer download
You will see that this version (the left one) is the 2019 version suitable for macOS 10.12 - 10.15.
It was now apparent that the wordy instructions were more to do with installing Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat 2015[FONT=adobe-clean, HelveticaNeue-light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif].[/FONT]
Once downloaded and running it did ask for permission access to a few things all of which I approved, I then checked for updates which brought me up to 2019.021.20056.
A quick change to View > Display Theme > Dark Grey and I have this;
Back the way it was before the Catalina upgrade. I logged in with my old credentials with no problems.
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