Acrobat Pro 11 and catalina MAC OS

carlosn32

I know this is months later, but I just found your post. I have been running Acobat Pro X on Mojave for months with no issues. I occasionally get a message telling me that this version will no longer be supported in the future.  Adobe's sage advise seems to ignore the fact that we paid $500 for a lifetime license and don't want to switch over to their price gouging subscription model. 

To be very clear, you bought a “perpetual license” (the word “lifetime” certainly does not appear in the End User License Agreement) which provided for software that would run in the computing environment available at the time the software was Adobe's current software release and with support for a limited period of time. Adobe never guaranteed that all old versions of software designed for systems runnng 32-bit software and particular hardware configurations would run on newer systems with incompatible hardware and operating systems (the operating system no longer supports 32-bit software). The reason why you are getting warning messages is that Adobe does want you to know that if you do upgrade to the latest version of MacOS or you buy a new computer that only runs with the latest version of MacOS, you will need to upgrade your software, plain and simple. I we didn't provide such warnings, there would be customers who would complain that we didn't warn them!

By the way, if you buy four laser printer toner cartridges and a month later, you need to replace the printer that uses those cartridges with a new printer that uses different toner cartridges, would you expect the supplier of those four toner cartridges to give you a “free upgrade” because those those cartridges don't fit your new printer?

Do not post any more replies to the thread above! They do not show up due to a serious bug in the forums system.

See: https://community.adobe.com/t5/community-feedback/critical-bug-replies-are-disappearing/td-p/10997350

Here is the Help page on Acrobat and Catalina:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/compatibility-with-macos-10-15-catalina.html

Also, read this reply from Dov Isaacs (Adobe Staff):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Acrobat/Mac-OS-10-15-Will-Adobe-Acrobat-Pro-either-2017-or-DC-function/td-p/10592238

Here are the current plans for Acrobat:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/pricing.html

~ Jane

Acrobat corresponding to macOS 10.15 is DC continious / DC (2015) / 2017 after the version updated on October 15th.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/compatibility-with-macos-10-15-catalina.html

Acrobat XI is no longer compatible with macOS 10.15 because support has ended in October 2017.

Your software was obsolete 4 years ago. It will never run in Catalina. Didn’t you get get a warning when upgrading?  You need to get the current version of Acrobat. Then wait... it is too early for going to Catalina.