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Acrobat for Windows and Mac: User Interface

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Thumbs down to the new interface

I'm sure the new features are very powerful and an improvement over the previous version; however, swapping the entire interface from left to right feels like an affectation by the visual design team. For one thing, moving the save, print, etc., functions from the left side of the window to the right means that now Adobe is backwards from every other design or word processing program out there. Yes, Google did this as well and I still hate it, so no points to you for trying to copy them. Having the tools on the right side was consistent with your other programs like Photoshop - I haven't opened photoshop recently so I don't know if that has changed also. Either way, it's distracting to have the tools feel like they're in the primary position on the left side of the window rather than having the document be the priority. I do like the new signature tool, allowing me to sign documents in fewer steps. But it should be on the right side! Having the floating toolbar hoover over the left side of the document also feels strange, as once again the left side of the document will always be more text heavy as we are a left-to-right culture, whereas the right side of the document often has more negative space. Just my initial thoughts on the new interface. Not a fan.

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  • AdminBhawna Arora (Admin, Adobe) commented  ·   ·  Report

    We appreciate your valuable feedback! We're always looking for ways to make Acrobat better, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your feedback with us.

    We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change, however we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you can be more productive & get more out of Acrobat. With the new interface we aim to

    1. Provide a simplified viewing experience that helps reduce clutter & optimise it for most used PDF actions that are relevant while viewing a document.

    2. Easily allow users to discover PDF tools they need by ensuring tools are intuitively grouped and a click away,

    a. For example, all tools that allow content, page & file level edits can be found under one action-based verb called “Edit”; tools that allow converting files to & from PDFs can be found under “Convert”; tools that allow filling & signing documents or requesting signatures from others under “Sign”.

    3. Most importantly, the new interface enables users to effortlessly move between different PDF tools to complete their document related tasks

    a. For example, someone viewing comments in a PDF should also be able to easily edit the text of it without interrupting their workflow

    b. A user can seamlessly perform page level edits such as reordering, inserting, extracting, rotating or deleting pages while editing content and/or commenting on the file

    We will follow up on this response with a detailed blog post explaining the changes, a guide to help familiarise you to the new interface, along with regular updates on upcoming changes.

    Thank you once again for your feedback, and do look forward to our upcoming releases !

    -Bhawna.