In a reply to a thread entitled "Acrobat 5.0 'quits unexpectedly' after launch;
using osx 10.2.8" last July, Nathan Strong wrote:
>This is going to sound really strange, but trust me and do it:
>
>1. Open System Preferences
>2. Open the International pane.
>3. Re-order the languages. Leave English at the top, but move one language up or
>down (it doesn't matter). You should get a little yellow triangle with a message
>"changes take effect when you next log in" or something to that effect.
>4. Quit System Preferences and restart your Mac.
>Acrobat should start working again.
(There was a similar reply in another more recent thread, but I
wasn't able to find it again when I searched.)

As I have endless problems with Acrobat 6.0.1 (OS X 10.2.8), so
that I normally have to relaunch it about a dozen times to do
anything other than browse through an existing file, I have been
searching for possibly relevant postings here in recent months.
When I found this suggestion I thought no harm could come of
trying, so I did, and it more or less worked, in the sense that
Acrobat still does an awful lot of unexpected quitting, but not
quite as much as it did before.

So I'm wondering if there is any explanation of why the suggestion
above sometimes works: is it just a trick that someone discovered
by accident, or is there some logic to it?

To be more specific about my own problems, the worst
difficulties arise when I try to add or modify bookmarks.
Generally speaking, "Add bookmark" works OK, but it sometimes
crashes as soon as I try to edit the text of the bookmark, and
if not then it nearly always crashes on the next step (even just
clicking outside the text field of the bookmark). This morning
I wanted to add about ten bookmarks to a file, and eventually
succeeded, but only after about twenty or thirty launches.

To judge from the postings here in recent months this is not a
particularly common problem -- if it were I can't believe that
Adobe would have the nerve to charge so much for such a clunky
program. Indeed, when I mention to Windows users how difficult
I find it to work with Acrobat they tend to say that it always
works fine for them. The International Preferences suggestion
quoted above tended to confirm a feeling I already had, that it might
be related to incompatibilities with different versions of the OS:
I work in France, but normally in English, so I normally have my
language preference set to English first, but I could live with
putting French or Spanish first if that would solve the problems.

athel