I switched from Acrobat XI Pro to Acrobat DC a few months ago. I agree with the other commenters. Too many menus and sub-menus and sub-sub-menus. Too many steps to do what you want to do. Especially OCR, which I need to do often.

Acrobat DC STINKS!!!!!

I agree with the others - Acrobat DC is terribly user-unfriendly. I suspect the programmers are inexperienced, don't understand the previous coding & just started over, not knowing what the super-users needs are. So typical of today's software - 'Hey, lets reinvent the wheel, cause we don't know what we're doing"! Acrobat is as bad as MS Word; how much time is wasted searching through the tabs/menus looking for what used to be right where we knew it was, or even taking away many of the useful/necessary functions?
What happened to the goal of making your program meet your USERS’ needs; not the useless bells & whistles the programmers think are cool, & the suits have no idea anyway?

Next time. Thanks

Bla-bla, and now we got Acrobat 2019 ... Suck

When I edit a document, I do not necessarily want to edit existing text. I do not want Acrobat to do an OCR process on the document and create uncountable text boxes (that can easily be messed up), when all I wanted to do was either crop the image or add a text box. Please allow the OCR conversion to be toggled off.
Also when scanning, if you go into an option like increase resolution, all of the changes (like selection of document size) made on the previous screen are lost and have to be entered again Too time consuming!

"Under review" for 8 months! Hmm, sounds like you need different reviewers resulting in ... "wait for it" ... better software.

Everything about the new version is harder to use. Completely non-intuitive. So much wasted time.

I agree that DC is far more difficult to use than XI for an experienced user. The icons make this product look like it was designed for small children who can't read. Is that really Adobe's target audience?

I agree with your comments about Adobe Acrobat Pro XI vs Adobe Acrobat DC. Adobe Acrobat DC is horrible. I cannot stand it as using it is counter-intuitive to the seasoned Adobe Acrobat Pro users & takes too long with way to many mouse clicks to do something that used to be simple. It's as if the Adobe corporation's primary goal is to alienate experienced Adobe Acrobat Pro users. Terrible disregard by Adobe of customers that used to really like and use the Pro project. Preferably, I enjoyed the legacy Acrobat Pro product when LifeCycle Designer was an incorporated feature. The software was fantastic way back then. Then slowly, newer versions with the whittling away at removing useful features and removing the ease of use occurred with little to no explanation at how feature removals would benefit seasoned users. Now, it's morphed into Adobe's marketing of Adobe Acrobat DC subscriptions that absolutely STINK, as it is terrible and frustrating, AND more time-consuming to use to do even the most simple actions.

signed,
alienated Adobe Acrobat Pro user

I'm trying to be objective, but this version makes me angry. I am proficient at earlier versions of Adobe Pro and little bad to say about the, but seriously cannot find one thing that I like about DC. I find it difficult to get anything done because features are nowhere near the same location and most are not named the same. So basically I think it is completely unusable.

This new Adobe version is terrible. I cannot figure out how to make text searchable. Please fix this! Terrible!

DC is the worst program. It has caused so much frustration. Why in the world have they made editing inserted text (into existing PDF) so freaking hard and inconsistent. Some edit easily, some are hidden by the existing PDF text boxes...WTH.

To the person who commented that "DC is so inferior to XI - I have to find something else." Our company switched to BlueBeam. I'm one of the few that have both programs loaded on my computer as I am a long time user of Adobe and still have hope in that they can undo DC and go back to the older versions layout. If in the next few years this cannot be accomplished, I most likely won't be posting to this board as I will have switched over completely to keep cost down.

Adobe DC is so inferior to XI - I have to find something else.

I've installed DC three times, each time thinking that maybe I was being too harsh in my assessment. But each time I reinstalled XI. This is not because I love XI, but because I find DC completely unusable. As far as I can tell, it does nothing that XI can't do better and easier, except maybe touch support. I have DC on my iPhone because I have no choice, and I never use it for more than viewing a PDF (and it doesn't show spreads). For years I had hoped that Adobe would come out with an Acrobat CC. Acrobat was always the ugly duckling of the Acrobat family, and it would have been so easy to make it better. The Creative Cloud apps, especially InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, are fully customizable and fairly uniform in how they look and perform. But then DC came out in 2015, and it hasn't improved one bit in three years. No designers and clients that I work with will touch it. My clients make heavy use of commenting on PDFs made from InDesign documents. XI isn't perfect - the post-it notes are often misaligned and long blocks of replacement text cause the screen to blink - but DC is far worse. There is often NO way in DC of knowing exactly what a comment is referring to. I can't risk upsetting my clients just to make Adobe happy. Acrobat DC is still polluting my Creative Cloud menu bar app. It is in constant need of "updating" even though it is not even installed. I would get rid of it if I could, but like all things DC, that is impossible.

I would like to be able to OCR a single page on Acrobat DC without having to scan a 300 page document. Is that possible? Thanks.

Rishusha Administrator comment - no that is not correct, the custom scan does not appear any longer in my case. It seems to be because Acrobat DC no longer suppresses a variety of scanner driver's software? ??

what happened to custom scan, I can no longer put in page size to scan an envelope or return postal receipts without scanning an entire 8.5 by 11 page. Apparently, acrobat DC no longer suppresses my scanner's driver or something?

I also liked the XI version better than the DC version. Even the 9 and X were great to use. In my opinion, Adobe took a step backwards. Hopefully they can make corrections by having their people take a look at 9, X, XI and improve on that and call DC an experimental error. Didn't Microsoft do this in one of their upgrades when the masses complained about the layout. If not more will be inclined to jump ship to Bluebeam which looks more familiar like the older Adobe versions.