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I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2019 on my mac. I get used to use built-in dictionary of mac via three-fingers clicking on a word. However, it works on other applications like chrome, pdfguru etc. but not on Acrobat Pro DC. Even ^+⌘+D doesn't work. How can I use the dictionary on it?

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  • see medium.com/@hlung/…
    – user310476
    Commented Jan 21, 2019 at 19:32
  • @DaniilManokhin nope, it doesn't work
    – Soner from The Ottoman Empire
    Commented Jan 21, 2019 at 19:49
  • I don't think Adobe uses the macOS Dictionary. Right click a word and select "Look up ___." On my system it opens a web browser with the definition of the selected word.
    – Steve Chambers
    Commented Jan 21, 2019 at 20:08
  • @SteveChambers yes, same case is applied to yet the fact that I'm not native speaker necessitate to glance at synonyms of the current word. The act genuinely is helpful.
    – Soner from The Ottoman Empire
    Commented Jan 21, 2019 at 20:13
  • This still dosen't work in May 2020. Does anyone know what the problem is? Should one blame Adobe or Apple?
    – stack-delay
    Commented May 6, 2020 at 9:36

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I come up with a solution by using bettertouchtool but it nearly meets my wish. It opens the dictionary application instead of popping-up.

Download and install Better Touch Tool.

Add Adobe Reader

Then select "Keyboard" tab (between "Trackpads" and "Apple remote")

Select "Adobe Reader" at the left sidebar.

Click "Add New Shortcut" and select preferable shortcut (in my case: Command + D).

Then select action: "Controlling Other Application" -> "Send Shortcut to Specific App", select "Adobe Reader" and press "Command + C".

Select newly created shortcut and click "Attach Additional Action" and attach action: "Controlling Other Application" -> "Execute Terminal Command" and paste 

open dict://`pbpaste`
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  • Can you add force touch (like the usual method for looking up a word in the dictionary) instead of Cmd + D?
    – Pulakesh Lohiya
    Commented Aug 14, 2020 at 7:10
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Here is my Bettertouchtool workflow

    [
  {
    "BTTTriggerType" : 203,
    "BTTTriggerTypeDescription" : "Single Finger FORCE Click",
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll",
    "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 54,
    "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Double Click",
    "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
    "BTTAlternateModifierKeys" : 0,
    "BTTRepeatDelay" : 0,
    "BTTUUID" : "A453AD8A-26F9-4A52-831F-BEE6AED7EB72",
    "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 0,
    "BTTEnabled" : 1,
    "BTTModifierMode" : 0,
    "BTTOrder" : 0,
    "BTTDisplayOrder" : 0,
    "BTTAdditionalActions" : [
      {
        "BTTTriggerType" : -1,
        "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : -1,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "No Action",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "c",
        "BTTAutoAdaptActionToKeyboardLayout" : true,
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "55,8",
        "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
        "BTTAlternateModifierKeys" : 0,
        "BTTRepeatDelay" : 0,
        "BTTUUID" : "B2806FF7-BEC1-4D25-8E50-3FD0C524D0E3",
        "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 0,
        "BTTEnabled" : 1,
        "BTTModifierMode" : 0,
        "BTTOrder" : 1,
        "BTTDisplayOrder" : 0
      },
      {
        "BTTTriggerType" : -1,
        "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 137,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Execute Terminal Command (Async, non-blocking)",
        "BTTTerminalCommand" : "open dict:\/\/`pbpaste`",
        "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
        "BTTAlternateModifierKeys" : 0,
        "BTTRepeatDelay" : 0,
        "BTTUUID" : "77076437-D1C5-4A7C-9142-773DEF3EF42C",
        "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 0,
        "BTTEnabled" : 1,
        "BTTModifierMode" : 0,
        "BTTOrder" : 2,
        "BTTDisplayOrder" : 0
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "BTTTriggerType" : -1,
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll",
    "BTTPredefinedActionType" : -1,
    "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "No Action",
    "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "c",
    "BTTAutoAdaptActionToKeyboardLayout" : true,
    "BTTShortcutToSend" : "55,8",
    "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
    "BTTAlternateModifierKeys" : 0,
    "BTTRepeatDelay" : 0,
    "BTTUUID" : "B2806FF7-BEC1-4D25-8E50-3FD0C524D0E3",
    "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 0,
    "BTTEnabled" : 1,
    "BTTModifierMode" : 0,
    "BTTOrder" : 1,
    "BTTDisplayOrder" : 0
  },
  {
    "BTTTriggerType" : -1,
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll",
    "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 137,
    "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Execute Terminal Command (Async, non-blocking)",
    "BTTTerminalCommand" : "open dict:\/\/`pbpaste`",
    "BTTEnabled2" : 1,
    "BTTAlternateModifierKeys" : 0,
    "BTTRepeatDelay" : 0,
    "BTTUUID" : "77076437-D1C5-4A7C-9142-773DEF3EF42C",
    "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 0,
    "BTTEnabled" : 1,
    "BTTModifierMode" : 0,
    "BTTOrder" : 2,
    "BTTDisplayOrder" : 0
  }
]
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