After raising subscription, we are really getting short changed in terms of efficiency and getting more done. May be time has come to separate from Adobe after more than three decades of relationship

I agree with this 100%. I am fed up with DC.

I agree with the comments here. We moved to DC when Acrobat moved to a subscription only model. It does not have the smoothness and ease of use of prior versions. For example, the default for saving is now to the Adobe cloud. Your cloud server is not appropriate for most documents I work with; if cloud storage is needed it would be our own.
Even the toolbar tiles assume Adobe cloud by default. I haven't been able to move the attach to email tile to the left hand side of the toolbars.

Please give us a way to change the interface and defaults to XI.

My sense is we are paying more and getting something less efficient and less customizable.

It's all in the name, DC - Document Cloud. It's more than clear Adobe cares more about "Enterprise" document management market than what build the company, Print and Design.
We just need to find something different. Adobe DOES NOT CARE!

I agree with the comments here. We moved to DC when Acrobat moved to a subscription only model. It does not have the smoothness and ease of use of prior versions. For example, the default for saving is now to the Adobe cloud. Your cloud server is not appropriate for most documents I work with; if cloud storage is needed it would be our own.
Even the toolbar tiles assume Adobe cloud by default. I haven't been able to move the attach to email tile to the left hand side of the toolbars. And why would you add extra mouse clicks to my day? File-Save As-My Computer-Choose a different folder, is 2 more clicks than I want.

Please give us a way to change the interface and defaults to XI.

My sense is we are paying more and getting something less efficient and less customizable.

XI was the best for people who really knew how to use it. The new versions have childish icons that do more than you want. It is dumbed down for people to lazy to be professional in their work and enjoy having a program dictate what you want to do. Way too many unchangeable defaults to ever be as useful as XI. I will miss it forever. :(

XI was so much better to use.

This product is utter garbage. completely counter intuitive. WHY??? it was once a decent streamlined easy to use software, now its clunky, childish and takes multiple Google searches to figure out how to do simple tasks. Rediculous.

I agree with M Surber, Elysia99 and Jennifer.

Agree wholeheartedly. I wish Adobe would stop assuming we're all using our phones and tablets to build/author/review content. BECAUSE MOST OF US ARE PROBABLY NOT DOING THAT.

Enough with the Fisher-Price iconography. We're design professionals, we need an efficient UI (like we USED to have!), not this cumbersome thing more and more designed for 8 year olds and Adobe's shiny-thing/the future is now!! marketing campaigns.

With each new "upgrade" to Acrobat Pro the software becomes less useable. Where is the ability to "cloud' areas now, and randomly highlight areas? This is just very basic stuff that i used to do, but can't figure out how to now. If I could go back to Acrobat pro 9, i would do it in a heartbeat. Acrobat Pro DC is garbage software.

File storage: in this day and age, the assumption that I would want to keep all my adobe pdf's in a different file system than the one I manage--really? I admit to shock and awe on seeing this program after Pro. Just a rotten change of direction. I've never had more people tell me they were quitting PDF and just using shared google docs.

I absolutely agree - Adobe DC looks childish, far less user friendly, and has definitely had a negative impact on my productivity. Adobe XI was far more professional, and everything I need to do in it was simple to use, easy to locate, and far outperforms this ridiculous "upgrade" that I was forced to get when our workstations were upgraded. Of course, the superior version was also free...

I've cancelled my subscription after sampling Foxit's Phantom PDF. Its minutely cheaper, but vastly more intuitive and business-user friendly than Acrobat DC. I no longer feel like a sudden moron while trying to perform a simple task like...deleting an unneeded page. For pity's sake, Adobe, what were you thinking?

Agreed. For pity's sake - I was a competent professional user of Acrobat Pro XI. My company has "upgraded" to Pro DC, and I may lose my job because my productivity has plummeted. In time, I may learn how to operate it, but everything is so very different, I cannot find the most basic tools, perform the most basic activities as I did before. It is difficult to tell if my common tools have moved to a hidden location or are completely deleted. I have hours of time invested in tutorials, articles and forums, and still cannot figure out how to do the basic document editing I easily did before, through multiple versions since CS2 days. I have found some tools, but some still elude me. For example, where is the typewriter tool? The text selector tool? How can I select text in a document to copy/paste it? SO basic...you would think it would be obvious to everyone. But it is not obvious to me, and clicking the help link...doesn't help.

Acrobat just keeps getting worse. I've been trying to simple things like highlighting text in different colors. Jeez!! I couldn't even get the menu/options to change the frikkin colors half the time. The Change Color function is useless - i.e. nothing happens when you select it.
Please, get rid of the idiots who have decision making powers, but don't even know how to use Acrobat, and please, please, get rid of the "programmers" who have little experience and hire the programmers who do know what they are doing because they have been programming for years/decades!!

With Acrobat DC you can't anymore write with accents in Spanish on the bookmarks. And I can't find the way to making a presentation with it. I could with Acrobat Pro XI.

Just a thought. Coke had their original flavor and wanted to tweek it thinking it was for the better with all the hype from challenger Pepsi, then what happened, Coke drinkers didn't care for the New Coke so then Coke said we'll sell original Coke and New Coke. I don't see New Coke anymore, so the original Coke won and I think they still have more sales than Pepsi. Maybe Adobe can try something like this and see which one users like more. If Adobe can stick to helping users in lieu of putting out new junk under the sales pitch of newer is better, they may win back users that went to the challenger(Bluebleam).

Adobe DC’s GUI is frustrating, bring back Adobe Pro X1, even if it’s offered in a “Classic” user Interface for desktop users. Simple form edits to move form fields/objects to specific locations does not work in DC as it did in prior Pro versions. Adobe Management's denial of this need is ludicrous as it appears Adobe developer & manager humans do not understand the business need of their customers need to "CONTROL placement" of all items they have on the forms they design with Adobe software WITHOUT starting over from scratch. It wasn't long ago that LiveCycle Designer was included with Adobe Pro & then it was a much better product than it is today for creating & managing fill & print forms using the prepare & edit tools in Adobe. Adobe managers and developers are slowly killing the usefulness of their software as customers are looking for other alternatives to meet their needs because Adobe people are not listening or providing solutions to resolve ongoing problems that have been reported repeatedly without any fixes/repairs being made in sight or even on the horizon. Seems Adobe does not care about customers needs due to the incredible number of complaints and requests for fixes that have went unanswered or “UNDER REVIEW” for far too long.

I was just forced to upgrade to DC because I had to get a new computer. I've been using XI for years, with no problems. I don't use a lot of the functions that Acrobat can do, but the ones I use, I use a lot. For example, creating a simple scan. Is Acrobat at some kind of war with Brother printers/scanners? Have I suddenly become software illiterate? Why on earth wouldn't my printer driver defaults float over to Acrobat? At no time in my career have I needed to scan a legal-sized color photo. But this is constantly being put back at the default and I cannot get rid of it. There is no defaults customization in Acrobat DC; all I can do is turn cutsey little candy-colored icons on or off. This is ridiculous and really unprofessional. Half the engineering staff in my company has been using Bluebeam for years and they love it. Acrobat DC is forcing me to jump ship as well.