Adobe For Mac Lion

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Adobe Reader for Mac is an essential application for reading, printing, marking up, and commenting on PDF files.

Pros

Adobe Reader for Mac is an essential application for reading, printing, marking up, and commenting on PDF files. Good functionality: With Adobe Reader for Mac, you can do more than just view.

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Good functionality: With Adobe Reader for Mac, you can do more than just view PDF files -- you can edit them as well, adding text and placing check marks and initials. It also lets you submit forms created with fillable form fields. This is especially helpful since nowadays many forms that you download from the Internet require you to use it to fill in the blanks.

Supports signatures: With this app you can add your signature onto files. This is an especially useful feature when you need to fill in and return a form or sign a document, but you don't have a working printer close by. You can choose to either type your signature, import a picture of your signature, or draw it using a mouse or trackpad.

  1. With many Apple designers having recently upgraded to Adobe CS5.5 they will want to know if there will be a smooth integration with the new O/S, and what bugs they will have to face. Well the good news is that Adobe and Apple have worked closely on this launch and have tested that CS5 & CS5.5 run reliably on Lion.
  2. I've got Mac Lion 10.7.1 and Adobe flash player 10.3.183.7 and my adobe will not work. I've set my global - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website.
  3. The lion does not support roseta which powerpc applications need. However although thre are a bunch of bugs with adobe and lion i havent seen anything that says they are definately not compatible. Can you give me the exact program and version that you are using? I have no idea, because they will no.

Streamlined interface: Although the amount of features is impressive for a free application, the interface is clearly laid out and easy to navigate.

Reliable: It opens and displays files of all sizes, even large ones with many detailed images, quickly and smoothly. We have not experienced any technical glitches. Also, updates are released regularly.

Cons

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Some advanced features require subscription: Adobe Reader doesn't have a paid version. Instead, if you want to take advantage of some of the more advanced features, you must sign up for a monthly subscription that starts at $1.99 a month. Two of these advanced features are emailing files directly from the application, and converting PDF files to other formats, including to Word.

Bottom Line

Adobe Reader proves to be the most functional, free PDF reader and editor available. Admittedly, Preview for Mac does share some of the features available on Adobe Reader, but not all of them. Besides, most fillable forms that you download from the Internet were originally created using other Adobe products and therefore must be filled out using Adobe Reader. This is a must-have application for all Mac users.

What do you need to know about free software?

Adobe has warned its Apple users that upgrading their systems to Mac OS X version 10.7, Lion, may cause problems.

The California-based company posted details of the known issues, which affect Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash and Illustrator among other Adobe products, on its website on Thursday.

The company said there were some general problems with non-specific Adobe products when being used in Mac OS X 10.7, such as the Java runtime needing to be manually re-installed. Adobe also noted that the system resume feature — 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps' — of Mac OS X Lion is not currently supported by Adobe software.

'This feature requires new code in order to work properly, Adobe will research adding this functionality for inclusion in future versions of our products,' the company said in an announcement.

Additionally, the new operating system also hides the user library until it is manually re-enabled, so users cannot find their working files.

Specific problems range from minor, such as the Dreamweaver CS4 colour picker not functioning correctly, to the more serious, such as Flash Builder 4 not functioning at all. Adobe also recommends that Flash Builder 4.5 users do not update to Mac OS X Lion due to issues that 'may degrade the user experience or affect use of the product'.

Many users reported a range of different problems in Adobe's online forums.

'Yesterday I installed OS X Lion on my iMac, and now my eyedropper tool in Flash is not working, and it is force-quitting about every 10 minutes. This is NOT good at all for me,' said user Bibliophile83 on the Adobe forum.

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'I upgraded to Lion today and have been going through my apps to see what works and what doesn't and unfortunately Premiere Pro CS 5.5 is crashing almost immediately on launch. I have already looked at the Adobe Lion FAQ, and my Java has been updated so it is not that,' Jonah Lee wrote.

Adobe had not responded to a request for comment at the time of writing.

Adobe has a chequered history with Apple, with the two companies trading blows in the past over Apple's decision not to allow the Flash platform onto the Apple iOS operating system.

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