Need an older version of Adobe Reader

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July 3, 2019
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Good afternoon! So, I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader DC or whatever it is supposed to be referred to as, and found that my Adobe Reader 9 is gone. I downloaded for a specific feature, only to find that several features were gone, and or locked behind a 2-25$ a month subscription paywall, alongside being ugly and burning my retinas. I searched a few decently lengthed forum threads, some reddit posts, et cetera, only to find that the official support stopped responding to them after 5-6~ posts for some reason. Also, the page with 'older/other versions' only has one version, the current version, which is absolute insanity. I would like my Adobe Reader 9 back, for my only other option at this point is to do SSD everything on my drive and system restore.

I feel sad to do this, but I compare it to the hypothetical situation where you go to update Battlefront 2005, only to get EA's Battlefront 2.

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Correct answer try67

Did you maybe have Adobe Acrobat 9 before (ie, not Reader)? If not, you did not lose any functionalities when upgrading to DC. They were moved around quite a lot and the user-interface changed dramatically, though, so you might not know where to find them. If you want help with finding a specific command let us know.

At any rate, older installers of Reader are available here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/

try67

Correct answer

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Did you maybe have Adobe Acrobat 9 before (ie, not Reader)? If not, you did not lose any functionalities when upgrading to DC. They were moved around quite a lot and the user-interface changed dramatically, though, so you might not know where to find them. If you want help with finding a specific command let us know.

At any rate, older installers of Reader are available here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/

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Anonymous

You are likely correct in that I was unable to find what I was looking for due to it being a vastly different interface, and the horrible looking toolbar of 'Adobe DLC available for the low low price of however many US dollars a month' being pushed into my peripherals did not help. All in all, as is normal with many people, I would like to return to what is familiar, and you have provided me with my original intent, which was to get Adobe Reader 9 back.

Responding quickly to the other two replies immediately after yours, I will look into the 'vulnerability to hackers', and when I was installing Adobe Acrobat DC, it told me to close Adobe Reader 9 and immediately deleted it when I started the installation.

Bernd Alheit

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The Installation of Adobe Acrobat DC will not remove Adobe Reader 9.

Bernd Alheit

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What features does you miss?

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Anonymous

I don't recall specifically, but many things in the toolbar were lost. What I was looking for, however, was the ability to change settings on a PDF so I could save an edited form of it.

jane-e

Community Expert

If you start to type in the search box in the upper right above the currently showing tools, the tool you are looking for should come up.

Give DC a shot before abandoning it. It’s the only one that gets security updates, and the older ones leave your system vulnerable to hackers.

~ Jane

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