

These steps are similar, but different for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. It's not difficult, but there are a few steps you need to follow. But if you acquired a stamp file from somewhere else, or want to share a stamp you've created, then it gets more complicated. If you are making your own static stamp with the Acrobat stamp tools, then Acrobat does the installation for you. To add a new stamp to Acrobat's list of stamps, that stamp file has to be installed into Acrobat. In Adobe Acrobat/Reader and most other PDF viewers, that custom image is a page in a special kind of PDF file, called a stamp file. And like a rubber stamp, a PDF stamp has a custom graphic/image. I use Acrobat and Reader for different purposes, and I really want to have both installed simultaneously.A PDF Stamp is a type of PDF markup (comment), just like a rubber ink stamp for paper. I installed both of these programs on another laptop just two months ago, and had no issue. I'm particularly confused because I've been using this set up on every laptop I've had for the past couple years, and never encountered a problem. When I tried reversing the order in which I installed the programs, Acrobat Pro also refused to install, saying that I had a newer version of the software on my machine. To proceed with Adobe Reader installation, it is required to uninstall any older versions of Adobe Acrobat that may be under a perpetual license from this machine." Uninstall the Older Version of Adobe Acrobat. "Adjust your selection as desired before continuing. Now I'm trying to install Adobe Reader, and am getting a pop up that I've never seen before:

I've installed an old copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro that I have, which I got from Adobe's website back in the day when they were making legacy products freely available. Hello! I'm trying to install Adobe Reader on my new computer, and am coming across a new and (to me) baffling issue.
