How to Obtain Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader (aka Adobe Reader) is the free viewer program to read and print Acrobat (PDF) files.

Official Download Home Page

The primary download page is https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise. You will be presented with the correct version to download for your computer.

Direct Download Links

The following URLs are direct links to Adobe's download servers:

Windows 7/2008R2/8.x/2012/10

• Adobe Acrobat Reader: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/2001220041/AcroRdrDC2001220041_en_US.exe

Windows XP SP2/2003/Vista/2008

• Adobe Reader XI 11.0.10: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/AdbeRdr11010_en_US.exe (72.3Mb)

Mac OS X

• Adobe Reader XI 11.0.10: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/AdbeRdr11010_en_US.dmg (102Mb)

iOS (iPhone/iPad)

• Adobe Reader iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/adobe-reader/id469337564?mt=8 (9Mb)

Windows 2000 SP4

• Adobe Reader 9.5: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.5.0/en_US/AdbeRdr950_en_US.exe (32Mb)

• Adobe Reader 9.5.1 (patch from 9.5): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.5.1/misc/AdbeRdrUpd951_all_incr.msp (4.72Mb)

• Adobe Reader 9.5.2 (patch from 9.5.1): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.5.2/misc/AdbeRdrUpd952_all_incr.msp (4.78Mb)

• Adobe Reader 9.5.3 (patch from 9.5.2): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.5.3/misc/AdbeRdrUpd953_all_incr.msp (11.8Mb)

• Adobe Reader 9.5.5 (patch from 9.5.3 or 9.5.4): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.5.5/misc/AdbeRdrUpd955_all_incr.msp (7.02Mb)

Windows NT4 with SP6

• Adobe Reader 7.1.0: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.1.0/enu/AdbeRdr710_en_US.exe (18.9Mb)

• Adobe Reader 7.1.3 (patch from 7.1.0, 7.1.1 or 7.1.2): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.1.3/misc/AdbeRdrUpd713_all_incr.msp (5.64Mb)

• Adobe Reader 7.1.4 (patch from 7.1.3): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/7x/7.1.4/misc/AdbeRdrUpd714_all_incr.msp (4.3Mb)

If you require a Microsoft indexing client (such as Windows Desktop Search) to search inside PDF files, download and install the Adobe PDF IFilter from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611.

Windows 98SE/ME

• Acrobat Reader 6.0.1: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/6.x/6.0/enu/AdbeRdr60_enu.exe (8.71Mb)

• Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 (patch from 6.0.1): http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/6.x/6.0.1/misc/Acro-Reader_6.0.2_Update.exe (4.14Mb)

• Acrobat Reader 6.0.3 (patch from 6.0.2): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/6.x/6.0.3/misc/Acro-Reader_603_Update.exe (1.73Mb)

• Acrobat Reader 6.0.4 (patch from 6.0.3): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/6.x/6.0.4/misc/Acro-Reader_604_Update.exe (1.02Mb)

• Acrobat Reader 6.0.5 (patch from 6.0.4): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/6.x/6.0.5/misc/Acro-Reader_605_Update.exe (2.8Mb)

• Acrobat Reader 6.0.6 (patch from 6.0.5): http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/6.x/6.0.6/misc/Acro-Reader_606_Update.exe (1Mb)

Windows 95/98

• Acrobat Reader 5.0.5: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/5.x/rp505enu.exe (9.94Mb)

See Also

• All Patches

• Collection of installers and patches

• https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/index.html