How To View PDF Without Logging Into Acrobat

[jrenee626]

I am on Macbook with Ventura 13.2.1 There must be an easy way to  view pdf's stored on my Mac without logging into my Acrobat account. I am using Apple's Preview. But when I click the pdf an Acrobat login window pops up and there is no option to cancel . Totally not user friendly to be forced to login to Acrobat just to look at a PDF. One answer in community was to delete Acrobat Reader. But I do Not have Acrobat Reader. I have Acrobat Version 23.0

[Eric Dumas]

I am wondering why Acrobat does not remember your Adobe Credentials and you have to type them in everytime.

If you associate PDF with Preview to open your pdf files, you should not have to enter your Adobe credentials. 

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[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

To follow up on @Eric Dumas post...

If you do not have Reader installed, do you have Acrobat Pro installed or are you using Acrobat Online?

If you have Acrobat Pro installed and the app is not remembering your account credentials, try repairing your OS permissions.

If you are using Acrobat Online, make sure your browser is not set to clear out cookies and passwords when you quit it.

It would be worth your while to fix this problem since Preview is a really bad PDF viewer for anything but the simpleist PDFs.