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LionMalicieux98 Posted messages 1 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
georges97 Posted messages 14559 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   -

Hello everyone, I’m looking to download this—the free version for Windows 11

I can only find a trial version

Thanks to everyone

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MPMP10 Posted messages 47259 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   18 929
 

Hello,

This software is not really free after the trial period; you must subscribe to a paid subscription in order to continue using it afterwards.

https://www.adobe.com/fr/legal/terms.html#3utilisation-des-services-et-des-logiciels

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brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148
 

Hello,

If the sole reader itself, which marks a certain obesity, is more relevant than others, contrary to the Acrobat editor itself, Reader is more informatively free.

https://www.adobe.com/fr/acrobat/pdf-reader.html?mv=search&mv2=paidsearch&sdid=SGDJMC8N&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMI_aiOhuWmlQMVv7ODBx3dOw_sEAAYASAAEgLvcPD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!759294729564!b!!g!!adobe%20reader!22688802426!184092151431&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22688802426

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georges97 Posted messages 14559 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 912
 

Hello,

The situation of this software would benefit from clarification. On the one hand, it is offered for download on CCM as free software:

https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/bureautique/2625-adobe-reader/

on the other hand, it appears as such on Adobe's site:

https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/bureautique/2625-adobe-reader/

Nowhere is stated that it is shareware and even less a trial version (prelude to a purchase).

Moreover, when trying to connect to Adobe's site, you are asked to validate an authentication corresponding to a previous registration (probably to access online versions).

What raises questions is, however, the presence on the last link of add-ons also free Adobe Express Photos but above all McAfee Security Scan Plus, of which we do not know exactly where the scan ends but especially how intrusive the prompts to buy their security products are.

Therefore, it would be necessary to clarify whether Acrobat Reader DC has become paid with a trial period or if there is confusion with the Pro version.

I have used, like many others, different versions of Acrobat Reader for up to about ten years and abandoned it (due to slow performance) in favor of Foxit PDF Reader (kept intentionally at version 12.0.1.12340 to benefit from the indexing feature removed from recent free versions) and PDF-XChange Viewer, especially for printing guidance and customized indexing.

My point is not to discourage Adobe's product, of which I have not followed the evolution, but to allow CCM moderators to share their experience for the applicants.

I should note that I have not downloaded the latest version, not knowing if the McAfee extension can be disabled.
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brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148
 

Hello,

As I said, I condemn this red tape factory, but I acted as the guinea pig, as is proper from the editor, a panel in the bottom left of the link in <2>.

Nowhere am I asked to register, but since Acrobat is full of vice, the link does not lead to a direct download but to an installer that lasts 10 years.

There isn’t as much adware associated as I can judge.

But opening the software yields a popup table “proposing” Acrobat Studio and the “Premium” features of Reader that must be closed with the cross in the top right.

The software then displays a "Free Trial" (7 days) but it seems likely that this is for the advanced features (PDF tools including electronic signature) and not for Reader itself, you just need to test for more than 7 days.

In this hypothesis, the insistent pressure from the software to buy X or Y is of course unbearable.

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brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148 > brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
 

Pop-ups are also unbearable, I didn’t check if this default behavior is configurable, but it seems to me to invoke calling AI or sharing my document via WhatsApp when all I asked was to read it.

Any software that relies on pop-ups is undesirable.

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MPMP10 Posted messages 47259 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   18 929
 
I just installed it and we are obviously on a trial version, in the software interface.
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brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148
 

I have this, where the free trial seems to concern only the additional features (probably a bit in the Foxit and company style where the basic features are free but some are in paid version).

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georges97 Posted messages 14559 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 912
 

I accidentally duplicated the first page instead of indicating the download page for Adobe where it is mentioned as free and not as a trial version as specified for Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Studio distributed by subscription:

https://www.adobe.com/fr/acrobat/pdf-reader.html

There would therefore be a contradiction between Adobe's presentations and the software's behavior. Possible. I don’t claim to be right, especially since I no longer use this product. Nevertheless, the only ways to know are either to use the software for a while, or to wait for other users to report their observations.

Besides, you can indeed disable the two extensions offered at installation.
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MPMP10 Posted messages 47259 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   18 929
 

Hello Georges97,

On your link at the bottom of the page!

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brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148 > MPMP10 Posted messages 47259 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
 

If you go all the way to the link, we’re still under pressure to make people buy; it’s titled Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) and concerns versions from Acrobat Standard (of course paid) and not Acrobat Reader, with a table of the differences between the versions.

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georges97 Posted messages 14559 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 912 > MPMP10 Posted messages 47259 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
 

Hi MPMP10,

I am not questioning the indications that appear in your screenshots. I consider that Adobe is not clear when changing the characterization of this product from one page to another.

I still believe that all PDF readers (like most antivirus software) exist in a free version, paid PDF editors offering additional features.

This does not prevent them, like their competitors, from pushing to purchase the Pro version, even if the free version functions without interruption.

I do not think it is worth fighting about it (especially with Adobe, which does not care) insofar as the Adobe page (among others) that I indicate presents the product as free.

Other opinions are welcome.

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brucine Posted messages 24709 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148 > georges97 Posted messages 14559 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention  
 

No one strangles themselves.

In my opinion it’s not an error, but a deliberate and more than insistent will to push for the purchase of other products (Acrobat Studio) or paid versions both on the download site and inside the software once installed.

Assuming that we need the additional options (not sure the annotation serves any purpose, unlike what we’re sold; the signature has no legal value until it is hosted by an approved third-party platform and the full edition itself, it’s still the extra step we can often do by going back and forth in Word), note that now all these folks operate not by purchase but by subscription and in the Cloud and that without talking about Acrobat Pro which seems to add only the AI (vade retro), Foxit PDF Editor costs 129€ per year compared to 216€ for Acrobat Standard, to each their own choices.

If all you need is to read, do like me, Sumatra or the browser depending on the mood of the day, not to mention that the bottom line is that the free space on my system partition dropped roughly from 62 to 58 GB before and after Acrobat Reader.

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spiralio Posted messages 5113 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   324
 

Hello,

Adobe Reader is indeed free; I’ve had it for 2 years.

If you click on "free trial," you get this window

which, as said, redirects to Adobe Acrobat Pro, with additional features.

I only use this software occasionally, I should get rid of it, 1.12 GB after all...but I only receive rare notifications from it, little advertising.
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georges97 Posted messages 14559 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 912
 

Thank you spiralio,

In the mazes of adobeian thinking, the free Acrobat Reader would constitute the trial for Acrobat Pro. A little abracadabrant, isn’t it?

I had forgotten the incomprehensible size of this simple reader.

For me, the verdict is in.

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