Acrobat XI for Mac - Built to Fail

Report · Feb 10, 2016

Has anyone else noticed?

Adobe Acrobat XI for Mac freezes and force closes constantly, taking all your open windows and work with it.

And it constantly refuses to save modified pdf files in the same location as the original, even if you renname them.

Adobe, having had these bugs brought to its attention, is either too incompetent or too indifferent to fix them.

The inescapable conclusion: Acrobat XI for Mac is built to fail.

Report · Feb 10, 2016

Did you bring this to Adobe's attention?

Clearly won't be fixed in XI now but maybe there was a fix. What version do you have?

Report · Feb 10, 2016

I use Acrobat XI for Mac, updated to version 11.0.14, which appears to be the latest. It crashes religiously, even after total uninstallation and reinstallation, and regularly refuses to save modified pdfs in the same location as the original.

And another issue: Acrobat can't OCR a document which has even a tiny amount of renderable text in it, such as a superimposed header or footer containing even just a single word (the situation involving countless electronically filed court documents which superimpose the case name and docket number on e-filed docs), without going through the rigmarole of converting the pdf to a tiff or postcript file or other, then reconverting it to a pdf, which costs time, aggravation, and most importantly, document quality.

Interestingly, there is pdf handling software available which has no such issue, so it's obviously doable. The irony is that while Adobe gave us this great, portable file type, it sucks at its own handling of it compared to numerous other software makers.

And all that with apparently no inclination to fix these bugs.