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1. Phantom lines in ruler when moving cursor

   Moving my cursor throughout the document leaves phantom lines in the rulers. This seems to have begun with recent app upgrade (current version: 2026.001.21367 64-bit). See 3 photos attached: one with no movement, one with movement down & right, one with movement down/right/up/left. The phantom lines obscure the ruler measurements. This appears to be a bug in the app. Older versions do not present the issue, but I am unable to downgrade.

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2. Old UI was Better

   Basically the old Adobe Acrobat Reader UI was significantly better and it continues to get worse. I often hop from PC to PC and every time I need to reinstall Reader I have to go and hunt down the settings to change everything back. It's taxing. Obnoxious. Here are the most important key changes that I have to make every time:

   1. The toolbar used to be docked at the top of the screen with tools like select, highlight, page navigation (back, forward, page up, page down), zoom, etc. Now it is a floating pane. I need it docked at the top.

   2. Page navigation tools including TOC and bookmarks used to be docked on the left side of the app. Now it's not there. I need it docked left.

   3. More tools used to be docked on the right side of the app like Export PDF, Edit PDF, Create PDF, etc and I could collapse it so I didn't actually see it. Now it is replaced with some kind of page navigation pane with "Edit, delete, or reply to comments", "Add, delete, or go to a specific bookmark", page thumbnails, next page and previous page and zoom. I need it the other older way.

   4. The old app interface had File, Edit, View, Sign, Window, Help in the top toolbar with Home and Tools in a toolbar just below that with the open files as tabs next to them in that same toolbar. Now there is just a Menu button with a bunch of options and a home button and the open files as tabs next to that menu and home button. I need it the old way.

   There's more too but this where I have to start over each time. It's awful. Why did you one day just decide the way everyone had been using it for years needed to be changed? And now I have to keep changing it back and have been doing so for years and I'm sick of it.

   And while I'm at it, remove any traces of AI from your products. Didn't ask for it. Don't need it. Don't want it.

   Basically the old Adobe Acrobat Reader UI was significantly better and it continues to get worse. I often hop from PC to PC and every time I need to reinstall Reader I have to go and hunt down the settings to change everything back. It's taxing. Obnoxious. Here are the most important key changes that I have to make every time:

   1. The toolbar used to be docked at the top of the screen with tools like select, highlight, page navigation (back, forward, page up, page down), zoom, etc. Now it is a floating pane. I need it docked at the… more

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3. Option to Remove the AI assistant and all AI tools.

   Install option to remove AI assistant and all AI tools as it is not (Artificial Intelligence) it is just annoying.

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4. Tabs duplicate in windows taskbar

   Bug. I work with two monitors, and when I have the Adobe Acrobat window on one monitor, it shows as it should, but when I move the window to the other monitor the icons in the Windows taskbar multiplies, which get very annoying after just a few open dokuments. If I try to close a tab, the "duplicate" window in the taskbar is still there but empty. It has been like this for the last two updates of Acrobat I think. Please fix this error!

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5. All of this Pop ups (AI, Bookmarks, tools....) all of these sucks

   All of this Pop ups (AI, Bookmarks, tools....) all of these sucks, when i only want to see a document i have to close a bunch of box

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6. I miss the Acrobat that just opened the file and did the work.

   I know competition, software development, and dealing with the public is hard, but I've been waiting for Acrobat's 2025 "give them so many popups that they realize how valuable we are" tactic to go away and it's just not happening. It looks like my windows machine is caught up in a war for which app is going to be opening PDFs, and I'm sad that y'all are going through that, but incessantly pestering of your paying customers just isn't the way. Some days it feels like an early 2000s infected web browser with the 'feature' ai and sharing popups. I miss the Acrobat that just opened the file and did the work. Sometimes, I'm opening these files up in front of people, and it feels like I'm using a free account with ads, even though I'm a paying customer personally and through the companies I work for.

   I know competition, software development, and dealing with the public is hard, but I've been waiting for Acrobat's 2025 "give them so many popups that they realize how valuable we are" tactic to go away and it's just not happening. It looks like my windows machine is caught up in a war for which app is going to be opening PDFs, and I'm sad that y'all are going through that, but incessantly pestering of your paying customers just isn't the way. Some days it feels like an early 2000s infected web browser with the 'feature' ai and sharing popups. I… more

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7. Stop asking to make Acrobat the default PDF program

   I said "No" I don't want Acrobat to be my default app for PDF files. Acrobat DC asks me again every time I start the program. That is intrusive and abusive, there is already a button on the start screen for that. Let me choose not to be asked again. I know how to do it through Acrobat (it's in plain sight already) or through the operating system settings.

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8. Remove internal ads from paid version of Acrobat

   Can we please have a debloated home screen in Adobe Acrobat?

   Looking at the current layout, half the screen is wasted on stuff I’ll never use:
   • Curated project ads like “Unlock your sales potential with TED” — this isn’t why I opened Acrobat.
   • AI features pushing “summarize your notes” when all I want is to view and edit PDFs.
   • Meeting transcription integration — how is this even related to a PDF tool?

   And the strangest part: if I’m running Acrobat DC (formerly Acrobat Pro, Acrobat X, etc.), that already means I’m a paying customer. Why is the home screen still trying to upsell me with irrelevant promos?

   All of this clutters the interface and makes the actual purpose of Acrobat harder to reach. A Publisher Mode without ads, promos, or unrelated features would make Acrobat far more usable.

   Can we please have a debloated home screen in Adobe Acrobat?

   Looking at the current layout, half the screen is wasted on stuff I’ll never use:
   • Curated project ads like “Unlock your sales potential with TED” — this isn’t why I opened Acrobat.
   • AI features pushing “summarize your notes” when all I want is to view and edit PDFs.
   • Meeting transcription integration — how is this even related to a PDF tool?

   And the strangest part: if I’m running Acrobat DC (formerly Acrobat Pro, Acrobat X, etc.), that already means I’m a paying customer. Why is the… more

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9. Remove AI, remove upsells, remove feedback and focus on productivity

   This is a business critical app that costs a lot of money (as part of the CC subscription). I want to open PDFs quickly, review them, close them and move on with my work. Instead, every time EVERY SINGLE TIME I open a PDF, you ask for feedback - PLEASE RATE THIS 1-10 HOW LIKELY ARE YOU TO RECOMMEND TO A COLLEAGUE?... then another window pops up that completely disables the app (can't even resize the application window) that tells me about all the new eatures you've added and you hide the close button so I have to hunt for it.

   Then when I've closed all Acrobat windows and try to move a PDF in File Explorer, it can't be moved, because, SURPRISE... Acrobat is still running. Open task manager, and there are 12 Acrobat processes running, even though Acrobat is not open anymore. After manually end-tasking these processes, I was finally able to move the PDF.

   JUST STOP. I pay for the app. That should be enough. I don't want AI, I don't want upsells, I don't want popups, I don't want fancy options, I don't want to recommend this to colleagues, I just want to open PDFs and do my job efficiently, and at the moment, this application is an absolute neusance and is debilitating to efficiency.

   Please PLEASE remember that this is a business-critical app. It's not a Barbie doll that requires pushing, makeup and marketing - it just needs to open PDFs and be fast about it. No popups, no AI, no nonsense. Or at least give me the ability to turn off all the nonsense and toggle to "work mode" (currently, to disable all this nonsense, you have to click through 20 preference screens, and even when I've disabled everything, including the AI, you STILL show the me the AI, and you STILL show me popups and upsells.

   PLEASE STOP.

   This is a business critical app that costs a lot of money (as part of the CC subscription). I want to open PDFs quickly, review them, close them and move on with my work. Instead, every time EVERY SINGLE TIME I open a PDF, you ask for feedback - PLEASE RATE THIS 1-10 HOW LIKELY ARE YOU TO RECOMMEND TO A COLLEAGUE?... then another window pops up that completely disables the app (can't even resize the application window) that tells me about all the new eatures you've added and you hide the close button so I have to hunt for… more

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10. Adobe Acrobat keeps collapsing to an icon bar every time I move it. This is a ridiculous design flaw.

    Please fix your product

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11. pop-ups

    Get your fingers out of my business. I pay the full price to use your software. So stop shoving pop-ups for new functions and other services in my face. I'm trying to work here. I'm not here for fun, and I sure as **** am not here for YOU. It's supposed to be the other way around. You're supposed to be the industry leader; act like it or I'll find another provider. They'll still push pop-ups in front of me, but they'll charge half the price for it. You should be ashamed.

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12. Ctrl+F title bar focus bug

    If you insist on having a search box in the title bar that constantly opens up on CTRL+F instead of the find window that works, COULD YOU MAKE IT ACTUALLY SEARCH THE DOCUMENT?

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13. Move the right side panel buttons up.

    Move the right side panel buttons up. When I have the page lowered beneath my toolboar, I can't access the zoom or page buttons.

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14. Allow search in my document ONLY, not tools

    When I'm searching my document I don't want to see results for Acrobat tools.

    In the image I'm looking for occurences of "v1" and don't see a single result, but see tools help. I'm almost NEVER looking for for that. It's a great capability but not all the time.

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15. Add multi-tab support to keep multiple PDFs open simultaneously

    As a researcher who frequently cross-references multiple PDF documents, I find it tedious to keep switching between separate Acrobat windows. A tabbed interface, similar to how modern browsers handle multiple tabs, would let me switch between open PDFs with a single click. This would also reduce memory usage compared to opening multiple full Acrobat instances and make the overall reading workflow much smoother.

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16. Improve search to highlight matches inside PDF content

    When using Ctrl+F to search a PDF, the matching words are highlighted in yellow, but once I click elsewhere the highlight disappears and I lose my place. I would like the option to keep search highlights visible while scrolling, similar to how browser PDF viewers work. Additionally, a search sidebar showing all occurrences with context would make navigating large documents much faster.

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17. Add support for PDF layers in the reader view

    Many technical PDFs, especially engineering drawings and CAD exports, contain multiple layers that can be toggled on and off. Currently, Acrobat Reader has no way to control layer visibility in the basic reader view—users must switch to the Pro editor. I would like a layer panel in the Reader sidebar so non-Pro users can show or hide specific content layers without needing to upgrade, making complex technical documents much more accessible.

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18. Get rid of PDF Spaces on the home page

    I pay for a subscription. Why am I seeing "curated PDF spaces" on my "adobe home page" as, what I see, as a distraction and advertisement for TED

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19. Cursor Sideways and Sideways Copy & Paste Fillable Fields

    This is a bug. I can't capture a screenshot of it as it is with the cursor, but the orientation of my cursor is sideways on the screen. Additionally, when I try to make a form fillable and copy and paste the fields from an existing form, it generates all of the fields 90 degrees from where they are supposed to generate.

    One screenshot shows what it does when I try to highlight text. The other is what happens when I copy and paste fields into a new document.

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20. Bug Report

    Tabs keep changing size and moving about when clicking on them, and it's really easy to accidentally close the tab by mistake - how do you get rid of this feature, as there's nothing under 'Preferences' - ie 'Settings' - about this, unless it comes under some jargon we don't understand. Also, if you move tabs about in a window, they tend to 'jump out' into new windows, which is ******* annoying. If you don't know what 'tabs' are, they're the rectangles at the top of the window, which you click on to move from one document to another. Tabs are used by 90% of people when you working on more than one document at once, when they are requested to go back and forth as quickly as possible on the treadmill to complete a job. I assume it's just an incompatibility in the coding that's causing this glitch, maybe something to do with conflicting protocols, and not something that's been added deliberately to make life really difficult for people working for a living. Can u send this Bug Report to super? I'm sure the paid version has no problems, so let's see the solution enabled in the free one.

    Tabs keep changing size and moving about when clicking on them, and it's really easy to accidentally close the tab by mistake - how do you get rid of this feature, as there's nothing under 'Preferences' - ie 'Settings' - about this, unless it comes under some jargon we don't understand. Also, if you move tabs about in a window, they tend to 'jump out' into new windows, which is ******* annoying. If you don't know what 'tabs' are, they're the rectangles at the top of the window, which you click on to move from one document to another. Tabs… more

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