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joelh63383059
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January 13, 2017
Question

Acrobat DC is crap

  • January 13, 2017
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After getting tossed from one phone rep to another, eventually I was directed to this online chat "solution". Feel free to review and come to you own conclusion but in general if there was another product that I could use, I would never use Adobe anything ever again and more specifically Adobe DC.

[what follows is a chat log that shows the op was not helped. i'm not sure he wants help, but in case he does i added the only relevent info below - kglad]

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12 replies

Participating Frequently
August 22, 2022

Yep.  Adobe went the Microsoft route and took something that worked really well and broke it, leaving you with no choice but to accept the broken version.  I guess too many silver spoon kids were given jobs at Adobe.

Participant
May 19, 2023

Adobe and Microsoft need to go back ten years then study that, don't change anything and yes all us users will be happy again. Simples.  You changing these programs for the sake of it is frustrating all us users. Heard of the saying if it aint broke dont touch it!! Please review your old and don't don't release it until it's tested. I have wasted too many hours trying to make things work again. Your Pro version and apps are not nice either, not easy to use. I wan't to get my steel rule and smash the developer over the knuckles.  I think you get the hint and our frustrations.

Participant
August 2, 2022

I 1000% agree.  This is tripling the time it used to take to do the same editing tasks.

Participant
July 26, 2022

I have used a couple of PDF editor in my career life (different companies' IT departments choose different products), and could not agree more that Adobe has the WORST user experience, that there is no other PDF editor can match it from this aspect. High cost is charged without high value user experience. Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is a COMPLETE CRAP. Makes NO sense why it dominates the market.

mikeb395961
Participating Frequently
April 7, 2022

So it's 2022 and still this programme is buggy and slow. There is no other piece of software that makes me grimmace and curse as much as Acrobat DC. I doubt Acrobat would circuating without Photoshop/Illustrator keeping Adobe afloat.

russellm27747538
Participating Frequently
September 28, 2021

Apparently is is still garbage. Try to negotiate a drawing and add comments. It is now 2021. This program has always been a hot garbage pile. It can't function on Teams. 

 

I have a maxed out Surface Studio 2 and it glitches and constantly causes issues.  

Participant
July 30, 2021

I am having such a miserable time trying to use this worthless app to sign a document on my phone. Absolute misery! The responsiveness is like 1999 trying to put signature in is taking me 30 minutes and I'm still not there. Out of frustration I have come here to complain. How is Adobe still in business with such a poor offering in 2021????

Participating Frequently
October 8, 2020

Same here. Acrobat DC is a major step backwards, even now, 5 years after release it is still SO SLOW, uses too much space around everything (designed for iPad, not professional desktop use), vertical space reduction is a disaster. Comments, OMG, comments is SO SLOW and frustrating. To select text in a comment, I double click on the text... but no, it then changes the comment window to a smaller text view and I have to double click again to get the text, adding steps to my workflow instead of reducing them. This is the opposite of progress.

Participating Frequently
April 16, 2021

So glad I still have my legacy versions, otherwise I'd be looking elsewhere for a pdf app.

Not the right path for the company that created the format in the first place.

sonoftherock
Participant
June 24, 2020

I agree, Adobe you are crap. Everything was ok until Camera Raw 12.3. It's crap!

Participant
November 19, 2019

How the f do I simply create a text box to write the date in on a w-9 pdf? There truly isn't a worst company than Adobe and I love how they charge for upgrades to new "products" that are worse than previous editions.  The online chat help is a joke, they couldn't help themsleves

shannongadobe
Participant
March 2, 2017

I've been using Acrobat Pro for over 12 years and this PRO DC is the worst, worst, worst version EVER!

What is going on??!!! I have to uninstall and go to an earlier version. What is Adobe doing about this!!??

This is the opposite of progress!! Please please stop ruining perfectly good programs to give someone a make-work job, or whatever happened here. It's a bloody disaster. Totally dissatisfied. ADOBE: Fix it NOW!!

angelod65124664
Participant
May 17, 2019

I completely agree. I couldn't deal with it anymore and wrote this: Acrobat Pro DC is a buggy, slow joke.