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August 13, 2023
Question

WHY COMPLETELY OVERHAUL THE ACROBAT READER GUI??? THE CONTROL LAYOUT WAS FINE.

  • August 13, 2023
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Thanks for making an already great PDF reading tool worse.

 

1. Why remove the title bar? On the desktop, it provided a handle so you can move the window around. Now, it's replaced with tabs. If you have a lot of tabs open (like I do, because I cross-reference documents), you literally have to search for empty space in the title bar just to move the window around.

2. Why put the Bookmarks bar with the Comments? Bookmarks use to be on the left. Comments tool use to be on the right. I could quickly navigate to a PDF section and drop notes. Now it's merged so that you can only use either one at any point in time.

 

Asinine changes by designers who think the GUI should be consolidated.

5 replies

JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2025

[MOVED TO THE ACROBAT READER DISCUSSIONS]

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
Participant
January 21, 2025

Why are bookmarks on the right?  This doesn't help.  Put it back.

OliverDavidSean
Participant
January 26, 2024

did you find a way to customize the layout? I was just today subkected to the new gui.  I did find the revert to old gui selection in the main menu under the hamburger icon.

Participant
August 14, 2023

How can you revert to the old layout ?

Participant
August 14, 2023

I agree... this new design is not user-friendly.  I would rather they put their efforts into permanently fixing the problem of "Access Denied" when trying to open old Adobe files that re-arranging the design.