Why the change to the basic layout with this "new" version? Specifically, transposing the side panels. The change does not serve any USEFUL purpose whatsoever. It seems to have been done so that we know it's been updated. If the improvements to functionality don't speak for themselves, then changing the layout for the sake of change is insulting to your users.

Let's be clear, this is not a matter of "we're just not used to it yet". There's a practical, functional, reason to have bookmarks on the left. Bookmarks work as a TOC which is crucial to navigating large documents. To have to use the right panel when navigating through a document via the table of contents is counterintuitive, inefficient, and makes navigating large documents very difficult.

The least you could do is let users change the layout in preferences. Making this a default layout is remarkably short sided.

Exactly Richard. In this universe, things will continue to only get worse with Adobe Acrobat, as they have for almost a decade now.

Everyone, don't waste your time trying to get heard here.

It's over, people. Move on.

I have bad news for the many folks who have posted here about how wonderful it is to be able to revert back: Corporations do not EVER leave such measures in place permanently. It's just a matter of time until you will be forced to live with the unbearable new UI or look for another product. The time for searching for a replacement is now.

I can't believe a classic long time software turned to this garbage, disabled new look right away. Hopefully the glitches will go away. Impossible to use "save as" function without a glitch. What is this???!!! Fix immediately!!

Thank you SO much for telling me how to disable this awful interface. With the new interface it took me ages to enter a few proof corrections. Then, and again thank you, I managed to restore the old interface and I could delete what I had done (often wrongly) and do it again properly.

The new layout is an example of how a program will become worse after it peaks. The layout changes are changing things for the sake of changing things and its so counterproductive that its jarring. The way forward is to look backward, find all the things acrobat did best in the past and start integrating them in an intuitive but familiar layout. I hope that helps.

I really dislike the new layout - I can't find things and the userbility is severely impacted. It is also so glitchy! No one in our office thinks it is an improvement.

the update to adobe acrobat pro is extremely problematic. why am i paying for a service that just made itself unusable to me?

If you have no Idea of GUI/UX - oh and the whole planet have no real good idea - why do you not first research in it BEFORE you make a change?

I had to search for 30 minutes to get back to the toolbar to change the view to only one page instead of 2 page view!

Is that what you think about User-performance and usability? From YOU ADOBE ???

and if you are at GUI why nota fluent one? Why nota one with F-Key to drop-down or drop-away ?

Or a circular human approach ?

You see, you have no answers to those simple questions, because you have no standards set through research!

So so not waste time wasting other peoples and your time and the programmers time!

INVEST IN RESEARCH AND AS ADOBE YOU CAN IMPLEMENT A STANDARD!
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and then force it on people!

Else it is and was a time and money waster!

I struggled with it for a few weeks before giving up and reverting to the old layout. I've been using software for decades and am very comfortable with change, but this was just shockingly bad.

MAKE IT GO AWAY! This new interface makes all of the mistakes that Apple has made in recent years - it's very clean, so clean that you can't easily reach the common things you want, and the contrast is so low one can hardly pick out the nonsensical tiny pictures from the background. It might look 'good' for some values of that word, but it's not very useful and has a huge annoyance value.

I was trying to read a reference document and got lost trying to find things in the new interface. Then, I couldn't put them back where they've been forever, where I was accustomed to them and where they worked well for me. In less than 3 minutes I was ready to throw a very expensive laptop across the room. If I were compelled to use this product with this interface for a job, I would quit. Can't pay me enough to deal with this ****.

More directly: This is AWFUL! An ABOMINATION, even!

Some of the Problems:

1. You Cannot remove the 1st 6 with flyout/dropdown menus from the customized Toolbar?
Last Adobe version, you could create a totally customized Toolbar with ONLY the commands you want.
2. The floating Toolbar Hides the document in the background! Why can you not "Doc" the Toolbar like previous version??

3. Only want "single" commands in customized toolbar like previous version. (so you mouse click only once for a command, not 2 times for a flyout/ drop down menu!
4. If my customized comands are more than 6, you have to click on the "3 dots" to get to them causing 2 more mouse clicks!

I was so glad I found out how to deactivate this abomination of an Interface.
NONE of the Tasks I had to do worked intuitively or even after trying to figure out a way to do it with the new Interface.

Also - Don't just change the interface on me from one file to another - You made me seriously rage and almost throw something across the room.

Big no from me. :/

Mags, if you have control over the application that is generating the PDF (or if you can edit the latter at a low level) you may want to try setting /UserUnit (in the page object) to an integer larger than 1 (the default). Following text from PDF specification section 7.7.3.3. —

(Optional; PDF 1.6) A positive number that shall give the size of default user space units, in multiples of 1/72 inch. The range of supported values shall be implementation-dependent. Default value: 1.0 (user space unit is 1/72 inch).

My biggest issue with Acrobat, even after I disabled the new version is that I can’t view HR PDFs for display banners at 100% – or even 50%! This has only been a problem since the latest update. Please fix this Adobe - we pay enough to use your programmes.

The latest update is a nightmare. Get this toolbar out of the way so I can do my work. Sluggish performance as well. Please restore the old interface.

I am a lawyer--more specifically a solo litigator. I read pdfs. I combine or separate pdf files and individual pages. I scan, Bates stamp, redact and produce documents to opposing counsel. That is it. Every. Single. Day. I opened my own litigation practice in 2013. If the selection to use the old interface goes away, so will my subscription if there is ANY other option to do the same thing in the same simplistic way.

I’ll add that it’s impossible to use the text editing tools and functionality of what was in the previous version has drastically decreased and frustration has increased and NOT because it’s different. It’s a poor design.

Couldn't agree more with all that is said above.

As someone whose company, with each team member, uses Adobe every single day of work, we are all already fed up with the new interface/mode that came with an update and have all already "disabled" this terrible option and reverted to what we had before/originally. Not enough time in the day to wrestle with a program that is supposed to make our lives and jobs easier.