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Free Acrobat Reader Software
Free Updaters & Patches for Adobe Software
Free Plug-Ins, Extensions, Additions, & Filters

Free Acrobat Reader Software

Note: if you would like to redistribute the Free Acrobat Readers at your site, please read our info.

Acrobat Reader 2.0 for Macintosh(R)

We now have two different versions of Acrobat Reader for Macintosh: Acrobat Reader 2.0r3 and Acrobat Reader 2.0.1. Please read About Readers for Macintosh to assist you in selecting the right Reader to use on your system. You can check the detailed READMEs:
README for Acrobat Reader 2.0r3
README for Acrobat Reader 2.0.1

Go To Download Area!
International Versions of 2.0r3 - Dutch, French, German, Italian, & UK English
also available on our ftp site ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Applications/Acrobat/Macintosh/
Requires Macintosh with 68020 or greater processor or PowerPC, Apple System Software 7.0 or greater, 2MB of application RAM. To install: download the file above to disk, (un-BinHex or un-MacBinary it if necessary, stuffit-expander can do this for you) double-click on the AcroRead.sea or AcroRead.mac icon and follow the installation instructions that appear on the screen. The installation procedure will ask you to read and accept the Electronic End User License Agreement. You can view the license agreement as an HTML file now, if you like.

Acrobat Reader 2.0 for Windows(TM)

DOWNLOAD Acrobat Reader for Windows!
(exactly 1438059 bytes)
International Versions are now available
in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and UK English
Requires 386, 486, or Pentium(R) based processor, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or greater, 4MB RAM or greater. (Note: Acrobat Reader 2.0 does not work with Windows NT.) To install: download the file above to disk, run acroread.exe and follow the installation instructions that appear on the screen. The installation procedure will ask you to read and accept the Electronic End User License Agreement. You can view the license agreement as an HTML file now, if you like.

Acrobat Reader 1.0 for DOS

DOWNLOAD Acrobat Reader for DOS! (exactly 2608461 bytes) To install: Download and run dosread.exe. This will unpack into the current directory. Run the program install.exe, this will show you (and ask you to read & accept) the on-line, "electronic shrink wrap" license agreement, and allow you to configure and install Acrobat Reader 1.0 for DOS. You can view the license agreement as an HTML file now, if you like. We also have the README.TXT file on-line.

Acrobat Reader 1.0 for SunOS(TM) 4.1.3 and Solaris(R) 2.3

DOWNLOAD Acrobat Reader for Sun! (exactly 6194955 bytes) To install: Download the compressed tar file to disk and uncompress and untar it. Check out the readme.rdr file for information about the application and installation. Run either the easyinst.rdr or the install.rdr script. The installation procedure will show you (and ask you to read and accept) the on-line Electronic End User License Agreement. You can view the license agreement in HTML format now, if you like.

Sorry, no other versions of Acrobat Reader are currently available

We are working on versions for Windows NT and HP/UX as well as some others. Schedule and availability have not yet been announced.


Free Updaters & Patches for Adobe Software

Macintosh ATM 3.8.2 Updaters

Applications to update Adobe Type Manager for the Macintosh, versions 3.8 and 3.8.1 to version 3.8.2. There are several versions of the updater to choose from. See Which Updater Application to Use for more information. Also see the README in the archive directory. If you are using ATM LE, which was included with Adobe Acrobat 2.0, you should use the ATM LE Updater application.

Download via ftp

Adobe Type 1 Enabler 2.2

The Adobe Type 1 Enabler will convert PostScript Type 1 fonts to the QuickDraw GX font format. You should only use this application if you intend to use QuickDraw GX. When you installed QuickDraw GX for the first time, all installed fonts were converted for you. If you install additional PostScript Type 1 fonts, you need this utility to convert them to the new format.

Please consult the README that is part of this self-extracting archive.

Download via http
or Download via ftp

Updater for Adobe Type Reunion

This package includes an application to update Adobe Type Reunion to version 1.2. It will update versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, and 1.1.

Please consult the README that is part of this self-extracting archive.

Download via http
or Download via ftp

Memory update for Windows Photoshop 3.01

The PSUT16.DLL and PSUT32.DLL files included with Adobe Photoshop 3.0 have been updated to minimize the amount of low DOS memory required to load the Adobe Photoshop program. The use of these new DLLs should allow for more DOS memory to better run APSI scanning devices. See the README and the zip file.

Download via ftp

Updater for Windows ATM 3.0 to 3.01

DOWNLOAD Windows ATM 3.01 updater (exactly 117297 bytes) -- Here is the latest version of ATM 3.01 updater. To update the ATM program files to version 3.01 you MUST have version 3.0 already installed. This update utility will not work with earlier versions of ATM. You must exit out of Windows before running this update utility. Copy the file 301.EXE to your WINDOWS directory and type 301 at the DOS prompt. For additional information refer to the README file.

Updater for Adobe PostScript Printer Driver version 2.1.2 for Windows

DOWNLOAD Adobe PostScript Printer Driver Updater version 2.1.2 for Windows (a self-extracting archive, exactly 335028 bytes) This driver Updater corrects problems affecting Adobe Acrobat 2.0 when using the Adobe PostScript printer driver. Once you have installed this Updater, Acrobat 2.0 and the Adobe PostScript printer driver will be fully compatible, and the Adobe driver will be updated to version 2.1.2.

Before installing this software, you must have already installed version 2.1 or 2.1.1 of the Adobe PostScript printer driver (adobeps.drv) for Windows 3.1. Note that the installation procedure may be performed from within Windows or DOS and will retain any existing printer settings. This Updater does not affect the Microsoft PostScript printer driver (pscript.drv). For installation information refer to the README file.

Patch for Photoshop 3.0 (Macintosh)

DOWNLOAD Photoshop 3.0.1 updater (binhex'd stuffit archive, exactly 42002 bytes) -- Adobe Photoshop 3.0 for Macintosh was inadvertently shipped with a security code time constraint. Therefore, a customer using Adobe Photoshop 3.0 with their system clock date set prior to January 1, 1994 or after December 31, 1994 will receive a message saying their application has expired. The security constraint does not damage the program or hard drive nor does it destroy any files. This Adobe Photoshop 3.0.1 Update application will fix the problem. The archive contains the updater application and a ReadMe file. The MD5 checksum of the binhex'd archive is 2546bb9f1f2f53a95cc551bfb87f9a14.

Patch for Japanese Photoshop 3.0 (Macintosh)

Access the patch on our ftp server Adobe Systems has announced that versions of Adobe Photoshop 3.0 for Macintosh shipped in Japan inadvertently containa date-driven piece of code that may cause a user's system to crash. Adobe believes this will only impact some customers running Japanese, Korean, or Chinese version sof Macintosh Systems 7.1 or higher when launching Adobe Photoshop for the Macintosh after February 1, 1995.

Updaters for PressWise 2.0 (Macintosh)

We have updaters for PressWise 2.0 thru version 2.0c. ReadMe files are inside the BinHex'd self-extrating archives.

Patcher for TrapWise 2.1 (Macintosh)

This patcher is downloadable as a BinHex'd self-extrating archive.


Plug-Ins, Extensions, Additions, & Filters

GIF Plug-In for Adobe Photoshop LE 2.5 (Mac & Windows)

The plug-in allows you to open or save images in the CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). This format is commonly used to upload documents to the CompuServe Information Service (and other online services) and to pass documents between other types of computers. GIF is a compressed format that is designed to minimize file transfer time over phone lines. The CompuServe GIF format is used for grayscale and indexed color files. download from our FTP server

Adobe Illustrator 5.5 Filter Updates (Macintosh)

We have some updated filters (Acrobat PDF File Format & Find (Select) filters) for Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Macintosh. You can view a plain-text version of the README.
DOWNLOAD Acrobat PDF and Find Filters for Macintosh Adobe Illustrator 5.5 (binhex'd self-extracting archive, exactly 134798 bytes)

Adobe Prepress XTension 1.0.2

DOWNLOAD Adobe Prepress XTension 1.0.2 for QuarkXPress 3.3. (binhex'd self-extracting archive, exactly 69460 bytes) -- an XTension that is designed to simplify the process of generating QuarkXPress 3.3 PostScript files for post-processing by Adobe prepress application products. A detailed README file is included, a selection from the README is online here.

Enhancement Pack II filters for PageMaker

Our ftp server now has some filters for PageMaker. For Macintosh PageMaker 5.0 there are filters for Microsoft Word 6.0 and Word 6.0 with OLE files. For Windows PageMaker 5.0x there are filters for Excel 5 and Lotus 4 (with OLE), Word 6 (with OLE), and WordPerfect 6.1. Also available is a Scripting guide for PageMaker 5.0x

Free Try-Out Versions of Adobe Software

Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Macintosh

DOWNLOAD Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Macintosh Try-Out version (binhex'd self-extracting archive, exactly 2793144 bytes)

More to Come ...

Adobe plans to offer more downloadable stuff in the future, including free "try-out" versions of our award winning application products


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