Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is Adobe’s PDF creation and editing application, commonly used to view, sign, annotate, convert, and manage PDF documents.
What is Acrobat?
Acrobat is Adobe’s desktop PDF application for opening, reading, editing, converting, organizing, signing, and sharing PDF files. People commonly encounter it when working with business documents, forms, scanned files, e-signatures, or Adobe Document Cloud features.
Safety overview
Status: Safe
This is a legitimate Adobe application. It is generally safe to keep if you use PDF editing, signing, or Adobe cloud features. Removing app data may reset preferences, sign-in state, recent files, or offline document-related data.
Recommendation: Keep it if you use Adobe Acrobat for PDF viewing, editing, signing, or document workflows. If you do not use it, it is usually optional and can be reviewed along with its helper components and cached data.
Common paths
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Acrobat~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist
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