I am working with Acrobat Pro since the very, VERY early days. Instead of improving the app it is getting worse with every update. Here is my current bug/missing feature list: Does not list last open files correctly on splash screenDoes not list last used folders on save screen. I still did not find a way to switch off the new save screen. Editing tools are reduced – Using Creative Cloud I do NOT want to use Adobe Express. The app is overall sluggish, slow and unreliableGenerating and editing forms in Acrobat is terrible, slow, buggy, sluggish and not intuitive, yet complicated.Text tools are reduced and limited in the current version. E.g. in former versions the line height when filling forms could be adjusted – not anymore.The recognition of form fields in scanned documents does not function anymore reliable. Crosses are not automatically set in the correct size and cannot be copied. So every cross mark set in a form has to be adjusted individually.Text fields altogether cannot be copied anymore when filling/generating forms. I could not care less for AI support as long as basic functionalities are getting worse instead of getting fixed... No platform makes it more obvious how much silo thinking is within the dev teams of each app than Adobe CC. Shortcuts, icons, functionality, underlying code – Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and worst in Acrobat – all apps seem to be programmed from different and rival software companies. Where is the synergy? Where is a unfied app experience? Why does Acrobat need to be that bad now?

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Acrobat 2024.003 is getting worse and worse

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 24, 2024
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I am working with Acrobat Pro since the very, VERY early days. Instead of improving the app it is getting worse with every update. Here is my current bug/missing feature list:

Does not list last open files correctly on splash screen
Does not list last used folders on save screen. I still did not find a way to switch off the new save screen.
Editing tools are reduced – Using Creative Cloud I do NOT want to use Adobe Express.
The app is overall sluggish, slow and unreliable
Generating and editing forms in Acrobat is terrible, slow, buggy, sluggish and not intuitive, yet complicated.
Text tools are reduced and limited in the current version. E.g. in former versions the line height when filling forms could be adjusted – not anymore.
The recognition of form fields in scanned documents does not function anymore reliable. Crosses are not automatically set in the correct size and cannot be copied. So every cross mark set in a form has to be adjusted individually.
Text fields altogether cannot be copied anymore when filling/generating forms.
I could not care less for AI support as long as basic functionalities are getting worse instead of getting fixed...

No platform makes it more obvious how much silo thinking is within the dev teams of each app than Adobe CC.
Shortcuts, icons, functionality, underlying code – Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and worst in Acrobat – all apps seem to be programmed from different and rival software companies.
Where is the synergy? Where is a unfied app experience?
Why does Acrobat need to be that bad now?

RICK ROESSING

Participant

I fully agree with you. They made it far, far worse than the classic version. How could they NOT catch this issue before they changed it? All they would have had to do is allow a few people who use the tool to try it and see if they thought it was improved or not. There’s no doubt that the majority would have said “Leave it as it is, for the new one is horrible; it cannot do what the other one did!!!” I could not be more dissatisified with this 2024 version. And then my publishing editor sends me my PDF with the security lock on it so that I cannot use the old version until I get it unlocked.

And then you’d think that they would have hubly switched back to the classic Acrobat Pro. But no, their pride made it impossible to “eat crow” for the sake of all of us users (who agree with one other, as in the comments here and replies).

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Flavia370981850lpq

Participant

Totally agree with you. Adobe Acrobat 2024 is AWFUL now. It's very confused and the usability is terrible. What do the developers had in their brains to create a so bad version and full of garbage? Please, bring back to the classic version. AH, and I HATED this IA.

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RedRay

Participant

Agreed. changing signature, adding comments all sluggish. the previous version on my old laptop was much more functional.

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ravinderg62643219

Adobe Employee

Apologies for the problem. Could you please share us the logs so that we can look into the issue

Steps

Close Acrobat
Download and run Diagnostics utility https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-diagnostics.html
Select Start Diagnostics.
Now Open Acrobat and reproduce the issue.
Select Stop Monitoring, and share the log ID with us.

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kylespringer

Participant

Same issues here too. It's awful, it took 3 minutes.

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ravinderg62643219

Adobe Employee

Hi

Could you Please try disabling the app conatiner mode and see if it helps to resolve the slow opening issue in PDF.

To disable app container mode

Open Acrobat

Open Preferences dialog

Go to Security (Enhanced)

Uncheck Run in AppContainer

Regards

Ravi

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USSLucy7

Participant

Hi Ravi,

I tried your suggestion but couldn't see the option 'Run in AppContainer' on the Security (Enhanced) page. I'm working from the Mac version.

I agree with the other comments. Acrobat Pro is almost useless. It gives the spinning ball for up to a minute to switch between open documents, drag handles to increase window size, etc. I want to disable all AI functionality.

Thanks,

LR

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