Acrobat Pro DC is a mistake

Adobe serupticiously upgraded me and I may just stop using acrobat. I got as far in the user agreement as the putting single pixel gif files on my computer - these are known as "bugs" or "web beacons". Usually clear, so you can't see them.

Adobe is a leader in spy tech. If I had my choice, I'd rather pay for my software - but then again, they even bug their paid software. Google "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC security update installs Chrome spyware"

Seriously the most frustrating Acrobat version - it does not allow for customization, is not intuitive... trying to work with it now and I'm looking for alternative software because this product is a serious fail.

I can not organize pages with the document being opened for some reason... It gives me the option to view more about this option (organize pages) but I can not move forward with the command...

If I click on tools and then click on organize pages without document being opened, it takes me to cloud acrobat and wants me to edit pages there with offering to save it, but  can not replace the new doc with the old name... And where is it saving the docs to????....

I am looking at Adobe Reader DC from the aspect of a research writer. Terms and words that one time meant something agreed upon in the dictionary have taken on new meanings that often confuse and obfuscate.

In my lifetime I have also been a general contractor and a legal secretary. All three of these careers included careful use of agreed upon words and wording.

In October of this year, 2016, a word in Microsoft Updates begged the question “what do they mean by this word?” That word was “rollup”. Due diligence brought the answer to that question, it now means that a number of updates are included all in one, or none at all. And if you install the “rollup” you cannot delete it.

Someone forgot that the “P” in PC, not political correctness, but Personal Computer means it is your computer not theirs. Our choices have been usurped by arbitrary, one-sided, decisions. The Merriam- Webster Thesaurus first synonym for “arbitrary” says it all; “Synonyms dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, peremptory, willful (or wilful)”, and so it is across the board with today’s software updates.

On September 30, 2016, I was informed that to view videos online I had to update Adobe Flash Player, and I did so. I was not told that it was now a “rollup” but discovered it the hard way when I needed to get proof that my car insurance had not lapsed for more than 30 days and had to prove this when changing to a different insurance agency.

I protested that their computer had wrong information and was told I had to get a Letter of Experience. I requested the document and saved it to my desktop. When I attempted to send it to the new insurance company I tried opening it in both Word and Adobe Reader but it was only in code in Word and Reader had changed to the DC version which requires a monthly subscription.

The wonderful cloud based subscriptions for Office 365 cost more than owning a copy of Office. In summer of 2016, a friend complained that Photoshop went cloud based subscription and priced her out of the silk-screening business.

Truth be told that is what Adobe has done. The recourse for me was to use screenshots and a lengthy explanation for my new auto policy after a second request for a Letter of Experience was required and a lot of digging down deep into what is really happening. Thus far, I have seen nothing in this forum that comes near the reality of the situation. What I do see here is similar to other software “help” and forums that are spewing company policy rather than “help” anything other than to trumpet an MVP’s ego, or put the person asking for “help” in a sit and spin cycle.

Prove me wrong.

How?

Post this. It seems that October was The Season of the Witch.

@ my initials, art oshea

The entire team that developed Acrobat Pro DC needs to know that their product is a total failure. We users learned the tool bar that used to appear on the right of the document. So now you hid the tools we use the most in layers of mouse clicks that are not at all intuitive. For example, try to extract pages. Where the hell did you hide it. also now a second drop down "extract" task is require. Try inserting a rectangle in a document. I had to do a google search to find the damn thing. Once again, multiple mouse clicks for what used to be one. Where is the magnifying glass. The new one is a search not magnify. This was very useful and now is gone. (Or at least I can't find it do far). You never tried this new product on regular users or they would have told you it is pure trash. 

This change is very bad for the charity I'm the administrator of. We have a lot of end-users based at home, many of whom are technically naive. I send them fillable PDF forms which they return to me. Many of them will throw up their hands in horror when faced by the profusion and confusion of the new interface, and will print the form out, annotate it by hand, and return it to me by snail-mail. And some will give up even trying to print the form out and will ask me to send them a printout in the post.

I already have to warn our users IN CAPS to untick the McAfee offer if they update their copy of the Reader. That McAfee offer default is nasty, an underhand, unfriendly, and time-wasting selling trick.

I cannot continue to lumber our users with these complications. I shall have try and find another PDF reader which supports fillable forms. Or the charity will have to stop using fillable forms.

Does anyone know of an alternative PDF reader which supports fillable forms?

Absolutely agree - I use Adobe Acrobat at least an hour per day - and now it is a complete NIGHTMARE. I had all my toolbars arranged - one click to find any tool I used frequently - now it takes 4 clicks - back and forth across the screen to do the same think. It has absolutely stunted my workflow - and killed my productivity. ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH. Once you get the right Tools menu open across the top of your screen - the text next to the icons take so much space that you end up with a dropbox at the end - and the tool you're looking for is always in another drop down menu. So again - 2 or 3 clicks every time you need a tool - where it used to be one click. I am working so SLOWLY and it is so FRUSTRATING that there must be a way out of this MESS. I purchased the software preinstalled on a new laptop - now I need to find out how to get my money back because there is no way I am going through life using a terrible piece of software like this. I need to work QUICKLY and I can't.........

So in the new Illustrator and InDesigns they have the same overall window thing ... but you can turn it off –– how can you turn off the annoying window in acrobat that now opens every time you open a pdf
???

I totally agree.  I've just lost an hour of production time trying to get this version of Acrobat to do what previous versions were able to do.  I'd like to boot the guy/gal who changed this program and made it useless  over the moon!  I want to send Adobe a bill for my lost time!

The same idiot/anarchist who initially designed Windows Vista years ago - who was likely trying to end the use of computers as we know and rely on them for daily business operations - must have gone to work for Adobe and designed this software upgrade. What a galactic level of stupidity to ruin a perfectly good working Adobe program - a daily tool of my report-writing trade, and to change that essential tool that I already paid big bucks for to a new anarchy model. Now I lose more time and money on fixing these growing numbers of software company failures than I do in actually running my business. This is the way tech companies are now making money - they break good programs, create upgrades to those breaks, disrupt our business operations in the process, and create fee-based fixes for them. Since I am now working in the Evolutionary Quality Control Department for Adobe trying to fix their problems, when should I expect my first check? I swear, someone released a Stupid Virus, or something. A message to all as upset as I am - stay on the bottled water.