Adobe Acrobat Helper has somehow replaced "Adobe Acrobat" as the app?

AppleScript
#1

Recently, my system has replaced Adobe Acrobat Helper.app as the “main” app for Acrobat. If I click the Acrobat icon in the dock, it bounces once, but opens the Adobe Acrobat Helper app instead. Any PDFs will open, and “Acrobat” will be shown in the top-left menu bar. But then the Acrobat Helper icon is the one with the active ‘dot’ in the dock, and the main acrobat icon no longer does.

This is affecting my scripts that I build for our associates, in that script debugger will rewrite the tell application commands to instead use “Adobe Acrobat Helper” - which does not have any commands in the library.

I’ve had some minor success using tell application id “com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro” instead of tell application, but it still doesn’t seem to be actually working correctly.

Does anyone know why this has happened to Acrobat and/or how to get it to show the actual Acrobat app? I can’t think this is as intended, even for the acrobat team…

#2

First: did you try to uninstall-reinstall Acrobat?

#3

I figured out the ‘why’ this is happening, at least - in the latest version of Acrobat, there is a new sandbox feature in Acrobat’s security settings. Having that enabled breaks the current version of the Enfocus Pitstop plugin, so Enfocus told us to disable it for now.

When you have the setting disabled, it causes the very weird behavior described where the acrobat helper app is used, which causes Script debugger to rewrite the code to Acrobat Helper.

So until it can be hopefully fixed all around, I just have to toggle pitstop vs AppleScript editing options with that setting…