Adobe Acrobat

What works

Specific Version

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015.007.20033

(Later versions found to be problematic during install)

General

• Displaying PDFs
• Basic user interface
• Menus and settings

Tools

• Edit PDF
• Comment
• Organize Pages
• Enhance Scans (including OCR)
• Prepare Form
• Combine Files
• Optimize PDF
• Redact
• Certificates
• Measure

What does not

Create PDF from .docx file input

Popup window appears "Unable to find Adobe PDF resource files. Do you want to run the installer in repair mode"

"Fill & Sign" Tool

When selecting the "Fill & Sign" tool the document view area goes white and the tool is non-functional

Cloud Storage

Non functional

Workarounds

Installation

When installer hangs at Completing...0% kill the 2nd msiexec.exe process in wine task manager to proceed.

Saving Files

Disable "Show online storage when saving files" in Preferences-General to bypass cloud storage and allow saving PDFs

What was not tested

System integrations

Virtual Printing, Plugins (e.g. to create pdfs directly from autodesk or ms office), System Context Menus

Tools

All other not previously mentioned tools and features

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

No winetricks or dll overrides needed with Wine 5.5 and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015.007.20033

Suggest 'modified'  amtlib.dll for efficiency

Disable "Automatically install updates" in Preferences-Updater