Remove tools sidebar selector, or make it an option, or an option to move it to the top or the bottom
The tool sidebar is too close to the scroll bar, and make it difficult to use and select the scroll bar, which is almost always used. Make the position and/or the visibility of the tools sidebar a preference, since this redundant control is available using many other existing ways. This is the must frustrating, duplicative, and unusually located user control I have seen in many years.
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john Orr commented
I agree, it's too close to the scroll bar. I have never seen this design in a product from any other company. A standard user interface makes a product easier to use. Unfortunately, I must move the sidebar (mostly) out of the way, every time and also enable smooth scrolling, every time, so Adobe reader will behave like every other browser and editor. Yes, I can change the setting but i have to redo it every time I use Adobe reader.
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Diptera commented
Another vote of no-confidence in the ridiculous right hand toolbar - not only is it generally "in the way", when you collapse it, it's still there, in the place that the vertical scrollbar should be...
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Sheila Goldfarb commented
tool bar takes up too much space on desktop when using split screen.
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Anonymous commented
This must have been designed by someone that doesn't use scrollbars. It's very easy to fix, just look at how in Gmail the side panel can be hidden and a small tab is left at the bottom to restore it instead of a full height bar.
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LRS commented
How's about making it pop out and float so you can expand to another window and actually see the thread. Make it more like a developer screen.
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Jeremy commented
Would love to be able to move the tool bar/pane (RHP) to the bottom of the screen. I read pdfs with my monitor in portrait mode and still want to be able to comment/highlight in them without sacrificing width.
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Kulwinder Singh commented
Remove side tool bar, using reader only, not editing document, this bar is of no use. please remove this cheap markting trend
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Frank commented
I am currently using Adobe 9 and 10 and want to upgrade but the current versions are more like downgrading so I have not upgraded yet. Please bring back these features as they are very important to me.
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Bob T. commented
Can you please bring this back to the older format. This whole interface is horrible! I've been using Adobe Acrobat since version 4 and this is the worst!
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Lorne commented
I agree for the most part on all of the above. Additionally, we need to be able to adjust the width of that right toolbar if we choose to use it. When creating a form, I can't even see the full names of my form fields. Even better would be the ability to detach that toolbar (and others) from the document window -- to use them as separate palettes like we can do in InDesign and Illustrator. I've got two monitors for a reason.
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Anonymous commented
Ditto, ditto, ditto. Get rid of the Tools sidebar, please!
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Anonymous commented
Please!!!... get rid of the Task Pane on the right hand side! Even the collapsed pane is not a good solution - that's the position of the scroll bar.
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Anonymous commented
Be a very busy week
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Jeff commented
Get rid of the tool bar on the right (or at least make it optional) and/or put it as a bar under the menu bar. Anything but on the right side of the screen.
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Will commented
I constantly hit the tool panel expansion sliver by accident when I meant to scroll. I usually run full screen when working on documents, and used to rely on being able to move the cursor to the edge of the screen, but now I have to make sure I'm not clicking something that honestly shouldn't be there.
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Raymond commented
I use the mouse to scroll to find the tool is always very slow when using the "Customize Quick Tools" feature. My software version is Acrobat DC Pro 2019.012.20034, and the computer is Mac Pro 2013 ( macOS 10.14.5). My computer configuration is not low, using Acrobat and other software is not slow. Use of "Customize Quick Tools" function is always very slow, it takes a long time to add the required tools on the Toolbar.
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Greg commented
How do you make the tool pane visible again? In my View>Show/Hide the Tool Pane selection is greyed out?
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Ed commented
Frustrating
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Andrew Millikin commented
Putting the tools pane right next to the scroll bar is one of the WORST UI decisions I have ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE. Give us an option to disable the tools pane COMPLETELY! I literally never want to see it ever again. I don't want to collapse it -- I want it GONE. GONE! Until then, I'm switching to SumatraPDF.
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Anonymous commented
Adobe UI Design Department:
Please get rid (or at least make it optional) the "Tools pane" on the right side of the window. (You should have called the icons there "Toolboxes" or "Tool sets" anyway.)
And, give users the option to place any tools that we choose in a toolbar or toolbars at the top of the window. Allow us to customize the toolbar(s) to make our workflow easier--not harder.
Thank you.