Open Acrobat Pro 9 on your Macintosh

Click the Acrobat icon in your dock if you've placed one there. If not, double-click on your Macintosh HD, choose applications from the side bar, navigate to Acrobat Pro 9 and double-click its icon in the Finder.

Go to the FILE menu, select CREATE PDF, and choose FROM FILE...

Try the file you want and see if Acrobat will open it...

Acrobat may not support the kind of file you're trying to open. What should you do if you get the following error message?

This simply means that Acrobat Pro 9 for the Macintosh doesn't support opening this type of file from within the Acrobat application. If this happens to you, then please see the lesson, "How to Create a PDF by Printing to the Acrobat Print Driver." We'll use a different method to create a PDF file from a file that won't open in Acrobat.

NOTE: Acrobat Pro 9 for Macintosh supports the following file types.

Choose a file that Acrobat can open.

Acrobat will process the file into PDF format and open it in a window...

Optional Step: Choose FILE - PROPERTIES to set the properties you'd like the PDF file to display upon opening...

Fill in the Properties Dialog options that you want...

In this large dialog box, you can click the DESCRIPTION tab (and set title, author, keywords, etc.), the SECURITY tab (and set a password, printing options, copying options, etc.), the INITIAL VIEW (and set how the document looks when it opens), and much more. Choose the options you wish, then click OK.

Go to the FILE menu and SAVE your PDF file.