![]() If Acrobat Reader has taken over your PDFs you’re being doubly punished. Every version of Acrobat Reader is misery to use: slow to launch, clumsy to operate, thousands of indecipherable options in the Preferences dialog, and very “un-Mac-like.” First punishment: Adobe’s punishing your by making you use Acrobat Reader (or Acrobat Reader DC, or Acrobat Reader Pro DC, or maybe an older version of Acrobat Reader). I wouldn’t make my dog use Acrobat Reader. Second punishment: by using Acrobat, you’re NOT using Apple’s built-in, elegant, powerful, joy-to-use Preview app. ![]() Using the Preview app is a treat, with plenty of groovy features under the hood should you care to go deep. ![]() Most of the time, though, all we want to do is double-click a PDF and have a look at it. Acrobat and Preview can both do it, but Preview does it faster and nicer, so let’s see how we can make that happen. How to change the app that opens when you double-click a particular PDF Adobe PDF reader Im not able to use the free version of Adobe on my new Mac. Go to the Adobe Acrobat Reader download page.Is there a free Adobe PDF that works with the new. Next, click on it ONCE, and then go to the File menu and choose “Get Info.” Shortcut: ⌘-I (that’s a capital I, not the number 1. Note: If you're running Mac OS X 10.9 or later, install the latest version of Reader. Please run the cleaner tool ( and reboot the Mac. For step-by-step instructions, see Install Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac OS. Then install Reader DC from the following page: Check if that helps. ![]() Select your operating system, a language, and the version of Reader that you want to install. ![]()
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