Adobe Acrobat from CS4 not installing

[juliab66835397]

I just bought a new mac laptop, but trying to install my old adobe suite which works fine for me

Everything installed except for Adobe Acrobat.  It just doesn't install.  Or once it installed but didn't have a menu.  I have erased old copies out of trash, and tried re-installing only adobe acrobat from the setup.  Nothing working.  Help!

[kglad]

there are known compatibility problems with more recent mac os'es (esp. sierra 10.12) and older adobe programs.  there may be no work-around.

[Bani Verma]

Moving to Installing, Updating, & Subscribing to Acrobat​

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated:

Quite frankly, you are lucky any Adobe application from the CS4 timeframe installs or runs fully and properly on any recent version of MacOS.

Unfortunately, Apple conscientiously breaks application compatibility with new OS releases and we at Adobe have no control over this. In the case of CS4, you are dealing with software that was released in 2008 (over eight years ago and six MacOS versions ago) and at least five Acrobat versions out of date.

Macintosh users must, repeat must assume that when they either upgrade their operating system and especially if they buy new hardware, that they may need to upgrade most of their application software as well.

          - Dov