

It was now apparent that the wordy instructions were more to do with installing Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat 2015. You will see that this version (the left one) is the 2019 version suitable for macOS 10.12 - 10.15. The Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, free PDF viewer download That took me to this page Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, free PDF viewer download. I puzzled over this for a while until whilst looking at the header then simply clicked on the Adobe Acrobat icon at the top of the page on the line which includes "Learn an Support" and "Get Started". What I found was that although the numerous photographic panels seem to suggest you might have to spend quite a while setting up the whole process, at least for me was as simple as pie except for one thing.

Subsequent reading online seemed to confirm that only a subscription based model was available for macOS 15 but I was wrong.Īfter trying ad ridden alternatives and partly functional free alternatives from the App Store I persevered with searching the internet until I came across this site Acrobat and macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibilityĭespite all of the technical babble it gave me hope that I could reinstall a version that worked and was free at least for all of the basic features. When I upgraded to Catalina it was just gone. # Description: This function is called to get current version and download URLĮcho "[Stage $) AppleWebKit/535.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2 Safari/535.6.I was erroneously under the impression that Acrobat was gone to stay, at least the free PDF reader version. URL=$( curl -silent -fail -H "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br" -H "Accept-Language: en-US q=0.9,en q=0.8" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors" -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Referer: " -H "Accept: */*" "" | grep -Eo '"download_url".*?",' | head -n 1 | cut -d " -f 4 )ĮvalFunc=$( curl -silent -fail -H "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br" -H "Accept-Language: en-US q=0.9,en q=0.8" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors" -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Referer: " -H "Accept: */*" "" | grep -Eo '"Version".*?",' | head -n 1 | cut -d " -f 4 )Įcho " " "$1" InstallerString="AcroRdrDC" # Name (or part of) of pkg filenameĪppPath="/Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app" # Install location ProperName="Adobe Acrobat DC" # Edit this to change the name that appears log output I saw a post in the Macadmins Slack about this, and someone posted the script below, and it seems to work: #!/bin/bash
