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AblowbeUnbenign
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September 15, 2023
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Adobe what are you smoking?

  • September 15, 2023
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WTF are you guys doing? The new update to Acrobat pro is absolute garbage.

1) Updated automatically without my permission.
2) UI has been completely and unnecessarily flipped around. Was this supposed to be an improvement? It's not.
3) Preflight used to be accessible in ONE drop down menu. Now it's buried under All Tools submenus.
4) Font activation in Indesign is STILL broken.

You're a disgrace.

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    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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    September 15, 2023

    You can revert to the "classic" user interface:

    In this screen cap (from a previous post), Windows is on the left, Mac on the right:

     

    Windows: Look for the hamburger menu in the upper left corner (3 horizontal lines where the File menu used to be). Then scroll to Disable New Acrobat.

     

    Mac: View menu, and scroll to Disable New Acrobat.

     

    You can voice your opinion directly to Adobe's engineers about this upgrade at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...

     

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      AblowbeUnbenignAuthor
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      September 25, 2023
      quote

      You can voice your opinion directly to Adobe's engineers about this upgrade at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...

       


      By @Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

      No need - it looks like Adobe are already getting rightfully pounded in there too...

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      Poor Country Boy
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      September 15, 2023

      Your question / comment applies to Reader as well. Who was the idjit who thought it would be cute to get rid of the menu bar, move common commands, like print and zoom to whereever, and have the tools sidebar pop up automatically and thereby forcing the displayed doc to shrink. Maybe I should switch over to Foxit Pro or Nitro Pro. Or maybe OpenOffice. Or just find the last decent version of Reader.

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      AblowbeUnbenignAuthor
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      September 15, 2023

      Not surprised. Adobe are nothing if not consistent............................................ly bad.

       

      6) You can no longer Ctrl+Tab to cycle between open documents which I use reguarly to A/B compare.
      Now that shortcut opens the ALL TOOLS sidebar and stays there. Garbage.

      Dave Creamer of IDEAS
      Community Expert
      Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 15, 2023

      You are correct that the user should have been asked before changing, however you can easily switch back to the prior interface. 

      David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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      AblowbeUnbenignAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      September 15, 2023

      I don't see where this can be done. Nice of Adobe to make it obvious...

      Also

      5) UI scaling. Not under general prefs anymore. As best I can tell it doesn't exist at all.

      Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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      Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 15, 2023

      There has been about 50 post in the Acrobat forum, each with an answer on how to do it. It's slightly different from Mac  or windows. Of course you could always Google it.

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      David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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