Looking for guidance on Acrobat new experience UI in relation to plugins

Question

We have developed plugins for Acrobat and Reader and are noticing the new UI experience being rolled out gradually in Acrobat. It appears the latest release does include some support for third party plugins, however currently the user would have to click 3 times to access the plugin menu before every action.

Is there any information available on plans for third party plugin support in the new UI experience? For example, will it be possible to make third party plugin more accessible, for example in a toolbar rather than always having to go through the menu. We would like to understand what is coming before it shows up on client desktops. Thanks.

Thom Parker · Answer

If your plug-in adds toolbuttons, then they will appear at the bottom of the tools listing. Like the menu items, access to the tools has become more inconvenient, and to make things worse the new UI is not drawing the toolbutton icons, not for plug-ins and not for JavaScript buttons. I can't believe they released a UI with such a huge and obvious bug in it. So there is definately more work to be done.

I also agree that access to the plug-in menu items (and all the regular ones as well) has gotten more awkward and inconvenient.

Another issue is that if you have any scripts that add custom menu items, then they have probably broken since all the old top level menus have been moved.

I would suggest that for now you advise your clients to disable the new Acrobat UI.

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