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1. I hate this new version!!! WAY LESS USER-FRIENDLY!!!

   Put all the commands and buttons back where they were.

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2. New Design is TERRIBLE!!!!!

   New design is TERRIBLE. Where is the ribbon? Where are the display tools.

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3. Provide Option to Hide Welcome / Home /Startup Screen

   My Acrobat Pro DC opens automatically when I boot my Mac.
   Each time I have to close the annoying start-up screen where the last documents are displayed. I don’t need it! Please provide an option again to disable this feature as it where in past versions of Acrobat. Thank you.

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   Under review  ·  AdminAyush Jain (Lead Software Engineer, Adobe) responded

   Hi,

   Thanks for Reaching out to us for your concerns.
   We’ve Kept a note of your request and we’ll revisit this once we hear back from more users for this.

   Thanks
   Ayush Jain

4. New interface is terrible.

   Someone, if not many people should be fired. Everything I use in my PAID SUBSCRIPTION is now more difficult

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5. The new version stinks!

   I'd like to revert to the previous version of Acrobat - the new version is NOT better - more confusing!

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6. Very confuse about the new acrobat

   I almost got a heart attack. I was working on a pdf, then I opened a new document and the Acrobat interface was completely different.

   I use Acrobat every day and the new interface is too different from the old one. Tools are difficult to find because they have been placed somewhere else.

   I definitely don't have time to learn how to use a new software. I didn't not appreciate to be face to this suddent change without any warning.

   It would be better to give user the option to customize the left and right pannels. If it's already possible, please make it easier to figure out.

   I finally found how to reverse it, but i am very disapointed. Hope that I will be able to keep the old interface. Because if I have to learn how to use a new software, I'll go for a cheaper option.

   I almost got a heart attack. I was working on a pdf, then I opened a new document and the Acrobat interface was completely different.

   I use Acrobat every day and the new interface is too different from the old one. Tools are difficult to find because they have been placed somewhere else.

   I definitely don't have time to learn how to use a new software. I didn't not appreciate to be face to this suddent change without any warning.

   It would be better to give user the option to customize the left and right pannels. If it's already possible,… more

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7. This new interface sucks

   Congratulations on complicating something that should be really straight forward. At least make everything editable, so I can keep the buttons I use more as shortcuts. The pages navigator and zoom being on the right side is just plain stupid.

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8. New page layout format

   The latest page layout is so confusing. Why did you do this to us?! It's one thing to update looks and add/subtract features. But you swapped sides. Now all editing tools are on the left and navigation (bookmarks etc.) are on the right. Why do this? That just slows us down and confuses us when we are used to it being editing on the right and navigation on the left. There doesn't seem to be a purpose in swapping them except to torment us. Perhaps you can add a preference in settings where we can make the layout as we like it?

   The latest page layout is so confusing. Why did you do this to us?! It's one thing to update looks and add/subtract features. But you swapped sides. Now all editing tools are on the left and navigation (bookmarks etc.) are on the right. Why do this? That just slows us down and confuses us when we are used to it being editing on the right and navigation on the left. There doesn't seem to be a purpose in swapping them except to torment us. Perhaps you can add a preference in settings where we can make the layout as we… more

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9. Tool bars in acrobat Pro DC

   DC Pro is very flash with some nice fearures. However, It is extremely frsutrating that it is not possible to open more than one tool bar at a time. For example - it is not unusual to want to edit AND comment - as this requires two tool bars for access to the different tools, there is a slow and annoying requirement to close and open tool bars when trying to edit and comment on work . Please consider reviewing. This was so much more efficient in Acrobat 10. thanks

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10. New Acrobat Interface is awful

    PLEASE....please.....don't ever disable or fail to support the "Disable New Acrobat" in View. The new interface is awful and there is no real support for it. Took me a half-hour to figure out "find and replace" and still didn't get it to work well. Stamps are in a bad place.

    All ok as long as this isn't forced on us until a LARGE volume of help and online answers to questions builds up...like in 2026.

    Carl Hartmann, Attorney
    carl@carlhartmann.com

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11. Option to Hide Bookmarks Panel for all PDFs

    Using: Acrobat Pro DC

    Request: Ability to set a global setting that hides the bookmarks panel whenever a new PDF is opened, as opposed to having to navigate to the initial view settings for each file and then save it.

    Reason: I open a lot of PDF files from emails, as I'm sure thousands of other people do, with no intention of saving it in that instance. Or files from the internet, again with no intention of saving it. This is to VIEW the file and find content relevant to the task in hand. Having the bookmarks panel occupy a third of the program window reduces the visibility and scale of the actual file.

    This would seem to be basic user experience to me. Not everyone uses bookmarks either. It should be a preference setting available as standard - forcing the user to focus on a feature they don't even use and interrupting basic workflow is ridiculous design philosophy.

    Using: Acrobat Pro DC

    Request: Ability to set a global setting that hides the bookmarks panel whenever a new PDF is opened, as opposed to having to navigate to the initial view settings for each file and then save it.

    Reason: I open a lot of PDF files from emails, as I'm sure thousands of other people do, with no intention of saving it in that instance. Or files from the internet, again with no intention of saving it. This is to VIEW the file and find content relevant to the task in hand. Having the bookmarks panel occupy a… more

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12. New Acrobat: Wish List for a Better Interface

    What users need in the new interface...

    Fellow users, please add or vote up the features that are most critical for you.
    (Interface-related only, not new features or utilities.)

    ONE:
    A totally customizable set of toolbars — left, right, top, and bottom of the application window, and also on a side monitor.

    — User determines which toolbars are visible.

    — User can dock or float them anywhere, including on a second monitor that's outside the application window.

    — User chooses which tools are in each toolbar.

    — User chooses whether each tool/utility is represented as an icon only, icon + text label, or text label only.

    — Let the user develop a custom toolbar with the individual tools they use most often, and let them dock or float it anywhere on their computer screen. The majority of professional users use 5-10 tools regularly and not an entire tool panel.

    — Allow all panels / toolbars to be resized to fit the user's screen and needs.

    — User can save this setup as a custom workspace that can be reset, changed, and re-selected whenever the user needs to do so. (See Adobe InDesign as a model for this very helpful feature. See https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/customizing-workspace.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/workspace-basics.html#Workspaceoverview)

    — And make it easy for users to create their own custom workspace. K I S S.

    Note: Adobe, when YOU determine which tools are in each panel, you prevent users from having ALL the tools they need for their tasks, and also make it more difficult to get to the specific tools they need.

    Example that fails in the new interface: having only the Comments panel or Page Thumbnails panel open at a time on the right side prevents people from efficiently editing PDFs. The problem isn't really that you moved left-side panels to the right and vice versa — it's that some pairs of tool panels can't be open simultaneously.

    TWO:
    Make the program fully accessible to all users...
    — Whether they have a disability or not.
    — Whether they use an assistive technology or not.
    — Whether they're on a full-screen monitor or small mobile screen.
    — Whether they have a touch screen or not.

    — Allow the user to control the color and contrast of the interface: dark mode, light mode, medium, black/white icons, and hi-contrast (for those with low vision or reading disabilities). Many of the colors you've chosen are not fully visible to those with various forms of color blindness and low-vision.

    Note: Thank you for darkening them in recent updates. That helped.

    — Allow the user to set the size of icons, labels, dialogue boxes, menu titles, and adjustment points.

    — Let users set the text size of comments in the Comments panel. People on high-resolution monitors (used by most professionals) and those with vision and reading disorders can't read the comments easily enough. Let comment text scale up and down as the user needs.

    — Hamburger menus (3 horizontal bars in the upper left) are NOT fully accessible to those with vision and mobility disabilities. Give users a choice of whether to have them in the interface or use traditional drop-down menus with text labels. Hamburger menus are best on mobile small screens; but they are cumbersome and clumsy on full-size monitors which are used by professionals in their daily jobs.

    — Redesign some of the tool icons, especially those that are confusing (see attached screen capture). Consider removing some of the icons: there are too many to sort through quickly, too many that are esoteric with undecipherable icons. Text labels can be faster to recognize and translate across all cultures.

    — Make every menu and toolbar accessible via the keyboard.

    — Bring back keyboard shortcuts for zoom in/out and paging. And let the user arrange where their icons are located on the screen.

    THREE:
    Fewer pop-ups.
    Please!

    — Once the user has viewed a pop-up, let them permanently close it.

    — And stop re-popping the pop-ups after each upgrade.

    FOUR:
    Clean up, minimize, and redesign the user preferences section.

    It's overwhelming. Confusing. Poorly designed.

    FIVE:
    The default interface should be the "classic" version, not the "new experience" — at least until you rework it sufficiently and the user makes the choice to move to the new version.

    — When installing a program update, warn the user that there's a new interface and let them choose whether to use the new one or keep the classic.

    — When installing an update, retain the user's custom workspaces, tool panels, and preferences.

    — And keep the option to Disable New Acrobat.

    Thank you for listening to us customers!

    And tap into the experts on the Acrobat prerelease/beta team. Most of us have worked with Adobe for decades and have helped develop the program since its its inception. Many of us teach Acrobat across many industries and know what customers easily grasp or stumble over. Some of us are professional UX/UI designers. And we know what customers need this powerful tool to do for them.

    What users need in the new interface...

    Fellow users, please add or vote up the features that are most critical for you.
    (Interface-related only, not new features or utilities.)

    ONE:
    A totally customizable set of toolbars — left, right, top, and bottom of the application window, and also on a side monitor.

    — User determines which toolbars are visible.

    — User can dock or float them anywhere, including on a second monitor that's outside the application window.

    — User chooses which tools are in each toolbar.

    — User chooses whether each tool/utility is represented as an icon only, icon +… more

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13. Save all tabs with one click

    Please create a functionality to save all tabs with one click. Currently we need to go through every tab to save them. And while at it, close all and print all -functions would come handy too.

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14. Request to revert back the color of icon from black to red for Acrobat Standard DC

    Please revert back the icon color of Acrobat Standard DC to red or any other color but black. The black color has poor visibility and not eye friendly.

    Request to take it on priory basis if possible as its slow down working speed as we loose the visibility of the icon on taskbar

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    Resolved  ·  AdminKaran Malik (Admin, Adobe) responded

    Hello All,

    Thank you for the feedback. The icon has been reverted to Red icons in Feb release of Acrobat and Reader.

    Thanks,
    Karan

15. Request: Option to disable tabs

    I would like to retain the ability to disable tabs, so that each file opens in a new window.

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16. New Display is HORRIBLE

    New layout for Adobe is horrible!
    Why did Adobe change something that wasn't broken?
    All of the icons/buttons used to be along the top ribbon of the screen and now there's some on the left, some on the right and some on the top. And now I can't even find some (for example insert text box and take a snapshot) that I use constantly.
    I had everything customized as I use Adobe constantly in my job and now this is causing me a lot of unnecessary stress.
    Adobe should offer their customers the option of reverting back to the old display.

    New layout for Adobe is horrible!
    Why did Adobe change something that wasn't broken?
    All of the icons/buttons used to be along the top ribbon of the screen and now there's some on the left, some on the right and some on the top. And now I can't even find some (for example insert text box and take a snapshot) that I use constantly.
    I had everything customized as I use Adobe constantly in my job and now this is causing me a lot of unnecessary stress.
    Adobe should offer their customers the option of reverting back to the old… more

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17. New PDF viewer is terrible

    What have you done to my ADobe viewer?
    It just changed in the middle of the day!
    I dont know how to use this "new" version
    Whoever thought of this is terrible idea
    Now i have to try and figure out all new way to do the PDFs
    Please put it back to NORMAL!!!
    I can;t find anything.
    If its not broken, why are you trying to "fix" it?

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18. VERY UNHAPPY WITH USER INTERFACE CHANGE

    hi,

    i recently had a forced update on adobe acrobat 23.008.20470. and i am extremely unhappy with the user interface changes. driving me nuts. put that **** back the way it was. now i have a bar thats taking up a large portion of the right side of my screen all the time. i can't put the buttons i want along the top only. i'm having difficulty getting my text format options to save. i double click on a text to move it and the text just highlights, it doesn't bring up the move cross. i cant even select the current text at all to even delete it or edit it. it just keeps drawing a line of the text. i'm super ******. i'd disable the automatic update if i could but its controlled by IT. very disappointed in this update. put it back, undo it completely it was fine before.

    hi,

    i recently had a forced update on adobe acrobat 23.008.20470. and i am extremely unhappy with the user interface changes. driving me nuts. put that **** back the way it was. now i have a bar thats taking up a large portion of the right side of my screen all the time. i can't put the buttons i want along the top only. i'm having difficulty getting my text format options to save. i double click on a text to move it and the text just highlights, it doesn't bring up the move cross. i cant even select the… more

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19. More user friendly arrangement of Quick Tools area

    I have just installed the latest "Acrobat Standard DC", and I'm disappointed to find that still the way in which you have to personalise the "Quick Tools" area is not user friendly.
    Apart from having a mandatory set of icons on the left (I can't see an easy way of removing them), the way you have to add / remove icons is annoying - right-clicking on the quick tools bar then selecting or deselecting an item to have the menu disappear so you have to right-click and find the item again and again...! Then not being able to change the order of these is dysfunctional too.
    Please improve the way the tools / toolbars can be personalised - I see many comments from other users around this.

    I have just installed the latest "Acrobat Standard DC", and I'm disappointed to find that still the way in which you have to personalise the "Quick Tools" area is not user friendly.
    Apart from having a mandatory set of icons on the left (I can't see an easy way of removing them), the way you have to add / remove icons is annoying - right-clicking on the quick tools bar then selecting or deselecting an item to have the menu disappear so you have to right-click and find the item again and again...! Then not being able to change the… more

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20. New Acrobat Interface

    My Idea is this: stop wasting precious developer time fixing things that AREN'T BROKEN! Geez, who wants to learn an all-new interface in in order to do the same work they've always done? Geez, you people have lost touch with reality. Software is supposed to support the users, making their productivity higher, and easier. Changfing interfaces does not do that Thank God someone was smart enough to include a Disable option! But you should have saved your energy for something important. Because all that time and effort making a less useable interface for me was a complete waste. Blind users have a touch enough time with your software. Why are you making things HARDER??????

    My Idea is this: stop wasting precious developer time fixing things that AREN'T BROKEN! Geez, who wants to learn an all-new interface in in order to do the same work they've always done? Geez, you people have lost touch with reality. Software is supposed to support the users, making their productivity higher, and easier. Changfing interfaces does not do that Thank God someone was smart enough to include a Disable option! But you should have saved your energy for something important. Because all that time and effort making a less useable interface for me was a complete waste. Blind users… more

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