User interface is the worst ever. Bring back the old interface
My idea is to bring back the old function interface.
The new user interface is the most inconvenient, inexplicable, poorly organized user interface I have experienced with any Adobe product.
In the future, interfaces should be tested with real live users and not code writers.
I wish there were a way to use a "legacy" interface.
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yuri deglin commented
the New Interface is awful. I think it is a perfect example of employees of a corporate behemoth trying to justify their existence and salaries.
Instead of innovations (which arguably difficult to do for a product that is mature and has been around for decades) they start to rearrange stuff.
With unsubstantiated claims that it is "better and easier to use". -
PMR commented
1. Despite of I am switchin dark mode, Adobe always coming back to light one
2. why I can see "tour panel" each time I am opening any file
3. unable to "disable new Acrobad Reader" from Menu Panel
4. unable to set "open pdf's from last session on Acrobat lauch" -
MFlemming commented
Thank you to those who contributed.
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Chris Greve commented
Thank you Andrew Patmore!! Great suggestion - worked perfectly
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Andrew Patmore commented
I just found an answer to your (and everyone else's) problem. In "View" you can disable the new interface and it will revert to the old one!!
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Tara Dittbenner commented
The new user interface is the most inconvenient, inexplicable, poorly organized user interface I have experienced with any Adobe product.
In the future, interfaces should be tested with REAL LIVE USER and not code writers. (Especially bored code writers than seam to have rolled the dice with random changes.)
My thoughts exactly. I use acrobat pro every day, all day and I don't have time to search for the save icon or the page up and down.
The layout is completely random. When you make interface changes the goal SHOULD be to improve the user experience. This is terrible. It's decreased efficiency.
PLEASE PLEASE fix it. I know I can switch to the old UI but it freezes up and gives me error messages - not once a day, not- a few times a day - but multiple times per hour.
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Jasper Edrich commented
Dead right.
To revert to the old one which is superior in all respects, here is Sharon's post copied from below (thank you Good Sharon):
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" SharonG commented · January 18, 2024 10:44 · Report
Click on Menu in upper left corner
Select “Disable new Acrobat”
You can always switch back to this by going to View and then Enable New Acrobat."_________________________________________________
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Barry Dalby commented
Thanks to those who pointed out that you can disable this new interface.
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Ian Hirst commented
I couldn't get my head around it at all. The previous version had so much flexibility and the assigning of specific fields to specific people made it easy to use. It would not assign with the new version. The old version was great in making some sections read-only which I couldn't find in the new version.
My worry is they have the Revert to old Acrobat in at the moment but you know they will remove that eventually. -
Amy Routson commented
Thank goodness there's an option to "Disable new Acrobat" because the new interface is the worst "upgrade" I've ever seen!!! The employees (and management) who thought this was a good idea should be demoted at best. (Personally, I would clean house!)
The new set-up is incredibly inconvenient. Not only is it difficult to find the tools we're used to, but we can't even delete the tools we don't want/don't use from the toolbar!! And if there's a way to organize the tools, I have yet to discover it.
Some tools seem to have been eliminated entirely, such as the little camera/snapshot tool that used to live in the upper left corner. Thankfully I know the keyboard "shortcut" to be able to do it because I use that feature all the time.
It also appears as though the Editing PDFs capabilities have either changed beyond recognition or been eliminated.
No one has time to research where to find things or to completely relearn a program that wasn't broken. I agree with the person who said these things should be tested with real live users before being launched! I can't imagine anyone who works in this environment on a daily basis would be pleased with any of the changes. (If you're out there...please, by all means, enlighten me!! I'm dying to know what you think is good about the changes.)
I've switched back to the old interface and am beyond happy to be there!!
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Danker Schaareman commented
When will ADOBE take action taking into account the numerous comments that **** the so-called "new" utterly worthless interface?
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Brett Webber commented
User interface in Acrobat has been reduced to the worst possible with significant reduced functionality - the old user interface was SO MUCH CLEARER and intuitive. I am really upset about the elimination of editable / scalable text annotation function too - please BRING BACK the earlier features! This is really so frustrating and disappointing.
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Carol Andersen commented
Totally agree & just reverted to old Acrobat!
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SharonG commented
Click on Menu in upper left corner
Select “Disable new Acrobat”
You can always switch back to this by going to View and then Enable New Acrobat -
Ray Taylor commented
I don't know who greenlighted this UX and pushed it out unannounced, no warning, no guidance on where things are...
Seriously I can't wait to retire and never have to use Adobe software again.
I mean, fix the bugs and make the basics more functional before pushing out an interface that is just going to **** people off.
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Dilanka Mohotti commented
terrible new GUI, please look into how users can fidnwhat they want. And worst of all you guys just swapped everything over! people are used to finding things on the right side of the GUI and the UI developers went and moved it to the left! really? then moved the left to the right.
Tool bar is small and needs more clicks to get to the actual tool. Need unnecessary editing.
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Harold Fletcher commented
Every "new" interface is worse than the one before it. I would kill for the Acrobat Pro X or XI interface. Just more ADHD obsessed Millennials and GenZs looking for something to do to justify their miserably excuse for existence.
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Joseph Zimmermann commented
I completely agree with this comment. The new user interface is bad while the old one was adequately functional.
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Ross Martin commented
Totally! They literally added 3 mouse clicks for several tasks that used to be 1 shortcut.
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MFlemming commented
I just did a new Adobe Acrobat Pro install on a computer and there was a pop-up option to not use the new user interface, but to revert to the "old one".
You can also switch to the new (current) interface if you'd like.
I prefer the old one, as I'm used to it, and it works just fine.