"Adobe Acrobat quit unexpectedly" when opening some PDFs?

Question

When I open some PDFs, Acrobat Pro quits. Not all PDFs, but some and I cannot see any difference between them. This has been happening 'off and on' for a couple of years as Apple and Adobe bring out various upgrades. HELP!!!

Adobe CC: Acrobat Pro version 2025.001.20982
MacOS Tahoe 26.1, iMac M3

Randy Hagan · Answer

Hard to say, without more information. PDFs can fail, or cause a PDF reader to fail, for any number of reasons.

Are you creating them? Or is somebody else providing those files to you? Are they coming from the same person or organization? Or are they coming from different ones? Do these errant PDF files come from a common source? Or a common program? Can you open them in web browsers or other PDF readers? Do they contain similar types of content?

To help, we'd need to know a lot more information than you've currently shared with us. Can you share any more common issues with those files? The more information we can get, the better shot we have of being able to help you past your issues.

Randy

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