Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC without Rosetta

[qpanda]

I would like to install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on an Apple Silicon based Mac without having to install Rosetta. Please make an installer available that does not require Rosetta to be installed.

[tlmurray23]

You would think the installer would say, "Rosetta enables XYZ features. If you are not going to need these, you don't need to install Rosetta. Skip?" Needed for a third-party tool? By now, there may be a better tool elsewhere. Besides, if the source of the tool has not made an Apple silicon version by now, they are probably letting that product die on the vine. 

I bought a new MBPro M2, installed Acrobat, and am happy to find several sources for how to uninstall.

[qpanda]

You would think the installer would say, "Rosetta enables XYZ features. If you are not going to need these, you don't need to install Rosetta. Skip?"

Indeed, especially because most users won't need support for Twain-based scanners and Third-Party plug-ins.

[Test Screen Name]

Rosetta is needed for one thing: to run apps that have not been converted for M1. In this case the app you are running is the Installer app. So this is not about what you will need in future, it's about what you need at this moment.  

I've asked this before, but nobody ever explains why they care. Is there some Internet myth that Rosetta will slow down all your apps, or fill up your storage? There were never such complaints in the days of Rosetta 1.

[qpanda]

Correct, the ask here is to have a native installer app. It seems odd having to install Rosetta just for an installer and it can't be that difficult to port the installer app.

There could be numerous reasons why a user wouldn't want to install Rosetta (just for an installer). From a security standpoint, everything you install on your machine increases the attack surface. There seems to be no documented way (I could find) to uninstall Rosetta. So you can't remove it even when future versions of the installer don't require Rosetta any more. I could also not find any information on how to update Rosetta or check it's version. Persumably the updates come with OS updates once installed?

[josephd70397329]

Because it equates to bloat. And in this particular case, it's a full system. Apple charges a premium for their storage space and everything else. I don't want cruft. If the applications themselves need Rosetta, and I need the application, that's an obvious usage. But here I'm installing a subsystem just to get through the door, and then never again, it's a wasteful imposition. Capiche?

[ToddBradley404]

I would like the same. It's strange that people have been asking for this for nearly two years, and Adobe still hasn't released a native arm64 (Apple Silicon) installer. Every other major software company has been supporting the new architecture for months. Why is Adobe different?

[Rexovas]

Doubly ridiculous when you consider Photoshop, Premiere, etc. can be installed without Rosetta.  Why not Acrobat?

[Rango Konk]

Guys This problem is now solved. I just downloaded Acrobat for Mac through the official link ofcourse and it did not make me install Rosetta on my Mac Mini and Macbook. Well Thanks Adobe for curing my OCD with a native installer.

[ToddBradley404]

Hurray! Thanks for posting that update. I just downloaded and installed the latest version on my Rosetta-free MacBook.

[Dmitrii300301561wn9]

Are you talking about Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat?
I'm failing to find the official link. Could you provide it please?

[ToddBradley404]

The download site is https://get.adobe.com/reader

[tlmurray23]

But that is Reader. I'd like the full Acrobat.