How do I go back to the old Acrobat?

Wish List

Fellow Acrobat users!

I want to turn our complaints into something useful for Adobe's development team, so I wrote up some key fixes to the new interface that will help us get the tools we need while giving Adobe a better interface for Acrobat's future features.

Please take a minute to review my wish list.

And please add your ideas to it!

• Keep it positive and helpful. (They already know how much we hate it, they got the message.)
• Suggestions on what you want to see changed or restored.
• Just address the interface, not what features you want (that's for another post).

And be sure to describe what you use Acrobat for, how it's used for work or your personal computing. It's clear that the Adobe design team may have missed how various industries rely on Acrobat, so here's your chance to let them know what you need in the interface.

I believe it's our last chance to get the Acrobat we need before Adobe carves the new interface into stone.

The wish list is at:

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/48153893-new-acrobat-wish-list-for-a-better-interface

Add your "wishes."

And don't forget to click the VOTE button in the upper left.

—Bevi Chagnon

One of the original Acrobat trainers since the original beta version 30+ years ago.

This is not my first time encountering a new Acrobat interface.

And no, I don't work for Adobe.

For the record, The new interface is absolute @#$%^ garbage.  Thank god you give us the option to revert to the old interface. And no, it will not make us more productive.  We lose productivity trying to relearn a software that we already know.  Adobe is the only software company I know that compeltely abandons their UI on a regular basis.  We were productive in the old version.  Who was asking for this crap?  Why is it so hard to customize view options?     Just stop already.   

Setting back to old version still has home page with type so small can't read it on Mac Studio monitor. 

Totally agree. Why do these people have to mess around with something when it's fine the way it is? 

Thank you for asking this question! It solved my problem and I am happy to go back to the old version!

absolutely horrible!  I agree

Totally agree.   These companies just dump crap on us thinking we have to just take it!  This New Acrobat is crap and a productivity waster.  I was tempted to go to another PDF reader until I luckily saw how to disable the New Acrobat.  I guarantee you, Adobe never spoke to real users of their software when developing these changes.

Agreed--why in the world move all these essential tools around when people have been using them for decades? Time would be better spent fixing current bugs rather than rearranging the user interface/all my tools!

Those of us who actually use your product for a living can't help but wonder: When you completely change the interface to be nothing like what we were all used to, do you ever have anyone who actually uses the program try it out and give you feedback before going live with it?

Millions of us users are out here losing many minutes of productivity worth millions of dollars every day while we hunt for where it is you have hidden the tools we use regularly.

Yes, it took me about an hour to end up giving up on using the new one altogether, it's small, i can't throw the toolbar on top of the document.  Where the crap is the view button so i can make changes?  The view button dissapears if you select the "hid view" button then it's like hacking to find it and change it again.   I think Adobe did us dirty to "upgrade" i hate it i hope i can keep the old one as long as i have adobe, or get something else this is terrible.