Does anyone know whether Mavericks is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro? I've been trying to locate a chart or definite answer without success. Holding off on the upgrade to 10.9 because of this issue.
MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), iOS 5.1.1
Depends on who you want to believe. I found a fair number of sites where users say Acrobat 9 Pro doesn't work. This site says it does. RoaringApps also says it works. But then, they also say Acrobat Pro 8 works, and even Adobe will tell you it doesn't.
Thank you Kurt. I did find the chart you found dated January, 8, 2014 but it's hard to say if it's correct. There's no support for 9 Pro through Adobe anymore to know for sure.
Forgot I still had Acrobat Pro 9 in my pile of software. Tried it on a bare installation of Mavericks, 10.9.1. It installed easily enough, but it no workee. Couldn't even create a PDF of a very simple web page using the print command, then "Save as Adobe PDF" from the menu. It get this error message:
Why it shows the Automator icon, I don't know, but it sure doesn't work.
Edit: What I forgot to do was have it check for updates. That might fix something. I'll have to check on that tomorrow as I have to leave the office in a moment.
Boy that doesn't sound good for me. Don't really want to pay the high dollar for Version XI. Thanks so much for you effort, sir! I appreciate it.
Kurt Lang wrote:
Forgot I still had Acrobat Pro 9 in my pile of software. Tried it on a bare installation of Mavericks, 10.9.1. It installed easily enough, but it no workee. Couldn't even create a PDF of a very simple web page using the print command, then "Save as Adobe PDF" from the menu. It get this error message:
Why it shows the Automator icon, I don't know, but it sure doesn't work.
Acrobat 9 Pro will run in Mavericks, however the reason the Automator icon shows with 9 Pro's "Save as Adobe PDF" is because of past history with Adobe Acrobat and the Mac OS (somewhere around Lion). At one point the Adobe PDF Printer used to work, but for "security reasons" Apple did something to OS X that disabled it. Adobe made a work around using some app compiled as an Automator workflow. I have noticed that Mavericks does not run many AppleScript and Automator apps that previously worked. It might have something to do with the 32-bit/64-bit running thing. I had to re-open an old app back into AppleScript Editor and resave it to allow it to run.
"Save as Adobe PDF" in Acrobat Pro X and XI work fine.
Unless you will upgrade, you may have to get your PDFs the Apple way then work on them in Acrobat Pro 9 (whether you get the document structure you need is the question though).
Thanks for the info, Timothy, but that's all old news to me. I'm already using the CC suite and Acrobat XI. I was only testing Acrobat Pro 9 for expc75 to see if it would work in Mavericks. See next post to the OP.
Just finished updating Acrobat Pro 9. Off the DVD, it was version 9.3. The update brought it to 9.5.5. It now works as it should in Mavericks. So you should be fine moving to OS 10.9.x.
I know your reply was to Kurt, but thanks for the info.
Thanks again Kurt. I guess I'm not really out anything by giving Acrobat 9 a try. It is the latest update. I'm running Snow Leopard now, so I think the advancements in the new OS will make it worth my while. Thanks again Kurt and Timothy.
I guess I'm not really out anything by giving Acrobat 9 a try.
I assume you mean give Mavericks, OS 10.9 a try. 🙂 Yeah, it's free, so the most you could lose was the time to upgrade the OS, find out something doesn't work, then restore the Snow Leopard backup you made before installing Mavericks.
Do be aware that any PowerPC apps you have will not run. That ability was removed back in Lion.
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they also say Acrobat Pro 8 works, and even Adobe will tell you it doesn't.
I have Acrobat Professional 8.0.0 and it works in Mavericks?????????
Hmm. I was looking on Adobe's forums yesterday as I was investigating this a bit, and one of Adobe's own employees had answered a question about Acrobat Pro 8 saying it didn't work. Maybe he meant unsupported.
I'm not sure. I haven't used it to do much but open PDFs in years, so maybe some of it's capabilities don't work.
Yup, I did mean Mavericks. I just meant that if I absolutely have to upgrade to Acrobat XI after installing Mavericks it might be worth it to have features in the OS that I don't have now. I do have an external drive plugged in all the time running Time Machine. Have never had to re-do everything though. Just a file here and there.
Well it sure would be nice not to have to shell out the money to upgrade to Acrobat XI. I do use it but it's pricey to do the upgrades. Thanks for the info.
Acrobat 9 Pro Compatibility?
