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Anonymous
November 12, 2015
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Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1 download

  • November 12, 2015
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How do I download Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1? I lost it when I reset my Windows 10 laptop.

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    tonyk59772422
    New Participant
    May 24, 2022

    Acrobat 8.1 works for me on Win 11.  I noticed it crashed to desktop whenever I wanted to rotate a page.  But I found a fix:  Just run it in Win 7 compability mode and everything I want it to do, works.  

     

    Someone else mentioned something about printing to pdf but I just use Microsoft Print to PDF as my printer so no issues there and I have never used Adobe PDF printer anyway.  I don't know why but maybe because I used the MS printer in MS Word and thought, why change?

     

    HTH

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      Ernie0D45
      New Participant
      September 12, 2020

      Hi,

      I just completed a bit of a chat exercise with an adobe chat agent.

      The agent was adamant that acrobat pro 8.1 is no longer supported and cannot be activated because the server that allowed activation is decommisioned.

      I too had 8.1 running until I needed to reinstall everything on my laptop. Currently this version is in its 30 day trial. Perhaps when the time expires, the lack of support will allow the program to continue working.

      I provide this to confirm that there is no hope for any activations of valid versions of 8.1.

      The chat agent recommended finding a third party with a version on CD that can be loaded without activation.

       

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      LearnedMan
      Inspiring
      November 13, 2015

      Forgot to tell you.

      You can download a replacement version of Acrobat 8 Pro from here.

      Download Acrobat products | 9, 8

      You still your serial number.

      The updates are here.

      ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/    

      Learned Man

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      SCSmith
      Participating Frequently
      July 10, 2020

      Things have moved on, but having just replaced my laptop and re-installed Acrobat Standard 8.1 (that I got with a Fujitsu scanner, so have a proper serial #), it seems Adobe have cut off every avenue for activating and therefore running legal software. I realilse that they don't support this any longer, and I'm not asking for that, just to be able to run what I have purchased. Is there a way to get the install activated or to stop the activation being required?

      try67
      try67
      Community Expert
      July 10, 2020

      Unfortunately, no. Acrobat 8 is truly dead and buried.

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      LearnedMan
      Inspiring
      November 13, 2015

      Jim,

      Adobe official response is that Acrobat 8 has not been tested on Win 10 and is not compatible with Win 10.

      However, I and several other members have it working in Win 10. Now the fact that we have it working does not mean we

      have all the functions working. One is print to pdf. It does not work inn Win 10. I have a workaround which gives me the

      ability to print to pdf, but that is all it does. If that is not good enough you need to upgrade.

      Here is my post of how I got it working.

      Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0 working in Windows 10         

      Re: Will an older version of acrobat 8 Professional install, and function on a newer computer using Windows 10?    

      I hope that helps.

      Learned Maan

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      Beav Rocks
      New Participant
      March 15, 2025

      Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1 3D version works perfectly on Windows 10. I have been using it on 10 since 10 was initially released. The problem begins with Windows 11. Adobe and Microsoft both continue to push everyone onto their clouds. They want you to pay monthly for stuff you already paid for. It is now "pay us" to harvest your data. No one knows who sees your data put onto cloud servers. Just say no.

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      Asw140461
      New Participant
      March 28, 2025

      Couldnt agree more.  Its the new way of the west - con and squeeze every drop of cash out of people.  Windows as do most of rthe big companies, peddle subscription as the way to get the best and also upgrades.  Problem is they seem to tinker and tinker, release poorly coded products then charge you each time they 'correct' things.  Its npt hard to see why so many look for ways around software adn htere are so many offtering cracked versions.  Just pure greed on the software companies side, generating a self renewing market is fine but deliberately building in redundancy you your paid for copies become trash is plain manipulative greed.

       

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