Q: Looking for safe download of Adobe Reader 9.4
My G4 PowerBook funs on 10.4.11 and I currently have Adobe Reader 8. I have been looking for a newer Reader, as some text sites I look at will not open using Reader 8 now. Nothing appears on the Adobe website to download an earlier Reader, while there are a number of non-Adobe sites that do provide a download. I tried the CNET site but got a warning about invalid certificate so I didn't use it. As a side note, I get a lot of invalid cert's warnings these days, so I'm not sure it is the site and not my outdated laptop. Thanks to anyon e with a suggestion!! bob.c
PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Posted on May 25, 2015 4:56 PM
I actually posted on this back in 2012 when Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5 became available for PowerPC:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3648326?tstart=0
I recommend the above mentioned Adobe Reader 9.5, but if you want 9.4, you can get it from the official site here:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/9.x/9.4.0/en_US/AdbeRdr940_en_US_ppc.pk g.zip
Adobe Reader also allows you to update the version from within the program by "checking for updates".
The 9.x branch of Adobe Reader is the last designed for PowerPC; there may be unofficial ways of getting the newer versions to work with PowerPC but I have not experimented with them.
Posted on Jun 7, 2015 10:37 AM