Multi-Row Toolbar with Colored Icons
Former versions of Acrobat, prior to Acrobat DC, had the capability of showing tools on two rows at the top of the document pane.
The lack of colorization of icons in DC, the basic shapes and the inability to show nearly all tools in the toolbar makes it very difficult and time consuming to edit and markup documents. I most often use the full array of tools and find it time consuming to search for tools that don't "fit" on the single row toolbar.
Please consider a options for users to add a second row or more to the tool bar or some way to show nearly all of the tools while working on a document? The additional screen "real estate" consumed by extra toolbars is not an issue since newer monitors are very large and have high resolution.
Please see the attached screenshot, as a reference to older versions of Acrobat that had the option for two-row toolbars and detailed, colorized tool icons
tims
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Gopa Campbell commented
Yes, the new interface has made my work take about 50% longer. It is very badly thought out. I get the sense that whoever is responsible for it never bothered to wonder or ask how people use Acrobat. We do not use it on a phone! We need our tools to show. We need to be able to see comments and thumbnails at the same time. We need to be able to see the WHOLE name of the document we are working on, not just a few lettes in a tab. This is an awful update. (I have gone back yo old Acrobat)
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griffin@klemalaw.com
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Colorized icons is absolutely necessary. Again, "appearance" of the UI is far, far lower priority than usability. Software is a TOOL, not a website, not a marketing piece, not a decoration. UI staff (leadership) should be fired for this horrible backwards change.
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Zach Bjornson
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Colorized icons especially would help me find tools much faster.
I never had a need for a "find tools" search box before DC's simplified design hid everything.
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tims
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The proposed capabilities would increase productivity when using Acrobat by 200%