Latest update of Adobe Acrobat Pro is an absolute disaster

As usual I tried to open one of my many Documents made with Jarte, a marvelous word processor, but now the thumbnail was changed to a blank page without a title. And instead of opening the document -with all my saved passwords- a page opened with the offer to try out a new version 7 days for free.

Now I see that all the documents I made over the years with Jarte have been taken over by Adobe.... 

To see what would happen if I made a new document with Jarte, I just wrote "Trying Jarte now"  and saved the document. Now also that document looks blank. And again a page opened to try out the new Adobe for free 7 days.

This is trying to force me to get the new Adobe Reader, or lose al my Jarte documents. And even if I did, who knows if I can get the Jarte documents back to readable.

I have my document with passwords saved on a  thumbnail, so I have hope that after I uninstall Adobe Reader from my laptop I can open the document again.

If not it will take me days to ask for password resets on dozens of websites.

Jarte used to have a paid version, but now that is free. And no longer served. But that's fine because it works great. 

If Jarte were still in business they surely would sue Adobe for taking over and/or ruining the use of their software. 

Sorry Adobe, but this in infuriating. Outrageous.

I absoultly agree.  I went on vacation and when I got back I couldn't even figure out what was going on.  You figure have an account with them that they would give you a heads up and maybe a turorial about how to the changes will effect what youv'e been used to doing.  I can't even find the dang zoom in our out that I can make on my bar.  Just aggravating. 

Michelle

Hi Adobe,

Are there any fixes to the issues reported? The new Adobe Acrobat is awful, freezes all the time, and slow. It's layout looks like it's gone back to the 90s. Really surprising from Adobe as the software is normally great from you guys but this is very disappointing. Took me 4 hours to make very simple edits yesterday. In addition to that (I work for an IT company) we've had x5 seperate users/companies complaining about Acrobat over just the last week.

Is there anything that resolves Acrobrat now freezing consisitantly?

Added to your complaint, there are too many popups. oo much distractions and interruptions.

YES , same here.  opening a pdf file crashes  Acrobat PRO for 1-2 minutes.  It is frustrating , especially that we all pay for the subscription !!

The new adobe experience sucks, it hovers over the blank spot your trying to tap on and gives you all these tools & options which takes me longer to get a form ready for a client to fill out and sign. Just the worse. I had to figure out to revert back to the old version. It was taking too much of my time to get a form ready. 

You are so right. The updated version is extremely slow. 

I can't believe Adobe have put this version of the reader out there.  It is the worst ever.  The interface overlays portions of the document over itself, the app is locking up and the only way to get out of it is via Task Manager.  This is not a step forward, by the looks of it, many many others are experiencing the same frustrations.   Unless this is wound back and a more reliable, cleaner interface is brought back, I will look to using another product.  Take this as constructive feedback and make a lot of people very happy.  Thanks   JT

ahhhh what a horrible mess this is, it's not intuitive at all, I absolutely hate it... 😞

Hello! 

Just updated my Adobe Acrobat with this "simplified" format and I have a couple of suggestions I would love to see. Otherwise, I am tempted to use other software for editing my documents! I have wasted many hours trying to edit simple docs. 

Some features I would love with updates:

- Being able to drag over multiple speech bubbles (grouping them together) so I can move multiple text boxes at once. Right now, I can select a text box and drag it half of the time. For some reason, I have to have something else selected so I can drag a text box, and haven't been able to figure out how to change a text box size or flip it to a different angle. It has been very hard to work with this new update, and text boxes should be the easiest to use! 

- The "draw" feature is difficult, especially using the Line feature. When I draw a line, it has the last line I drew selected, so that one gets deleted while it is selected - not the second line I drew. Also, I was trying to plot some points and draw lines between them on a pdf for school, and you can't draw a line over a Dot, without selecting the dot. Very frustrating!

- Lastly, the slowness and page scrolling is so difficult. I see the loading symbol more than I would like, and it scrolls faster than I can select the section I want to edit. I feel like I have no control!

Please consider these possible edits. Although a simplified app has many benefits, we would love to not backtrack on the simple features we expect in this program. Thank you.