Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Trial for Mac

But then MS would steal the idea and make it only accessible to PC's.

(Talking from past experience.)

Adobe has been doing this *@#$ for Mac users for years now with all of their software (just look at the terrible version of Flash Player for Mac-still no scroll bar support!?). There are plenty of us who have had it with their BS hence not only are we easing all Adobe products out of our workflows (yes, EVEN PHOTOSHOP), but we are also advising our clients to move away from any Adobe solution. Here's hoping that the iPhone never allows any sort of Flash Player to run on it. The world should never NEED Adobe Technologies, it should be up to Adobe to inspire users to WANT to use their products-such is certainly not the case today.

I wish it were easier for Apple to trash the PDF underpinnings of their Quartz drawing engine as it's unfortunate Apple supports any technology offered by these digital dilettantes. If it were up to many of us, Snow Leopard would abandon all of this PDF trash and trump it with something else.

They could do like shareware folks do make a fully working trial that good for a week the self destructs (or does not work) then when you buy the license key and enter it correctly it works.

If shareware folks can do it other manufacturers can too.

> They assuming wrongly that just because Mac equipment is expensive.

I think again that you are the one assuming wrongly.

If I were going to make an "assumption" I would say that the Mac user base is too small to expend the manpower it would take to make a trial version for Mac.

but that's just an assumption. No one knows except for them.

There never ever has been a Trial version of Acrobat for Mac in its long history. Even though Acrobat and PDF's originated on the mac Platform. Adobe assumes That Mac users always want the latest and greatest there is out there. They assuming wrongly that just because Mac equipment is expensive. That Mac users have money to burn and therefore buy software sight-on-scene.

Mac Users don't buy Computer equipment because its expensive. But because the system is easy to use; they don't have to worry about RegEdit and hunting down errant individual files. And the Hard ware can last forever provided there is paradigm shift in technology. I'm using a G4-500 PPC Tower to write this and its still going strong . A PC user probably has run through two systems in that time or more. Apple makes Component providers go through a certification Process. PC makers will install whatever they can lay their hands on , at the cheapest price point.

So I buy Longevity of use, quality, and ease of use not price.

Adobe isn't interested in Mac users???

There wasn't a Mac trial of Acrobat 8, so I have no particular reason
to expect a Mac trial of Acrobat 9. Maybe...

Aandi Inston