- first open Acrobat hit command + , head to preferences>general, Use native OS mode. Also head to updater, and untick automatically updates. After that apply the patch to Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Frameworks/Acrobat.framework/Versions/A if "upgrade" dialog shows up, execute in terminal: sudo codesign -f -d -s - /Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ DC/Adobe\ Acrobat.app/Contents/Frameworks/Acrobat.framework/Versions/A/Acrobat