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Joe349578044bpb
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Jan 22, 2024 5:36 PM UTC
Question

New Adobe Tool Bar, Interface and Layout is ABSOLUTELY AWFUL!!!

Why on earth would you people make such a drastic and unneccary change to the layout, tool bar locations, interface, icon appearance and formatting all at the same time and leave us absolutely no way to custominze or rearrange anything like we could before?!?!?!?!?!?!

This is the most frustrating and worthless update I have ever experiences in nearly 20 years of active use of this product.  It's like you are begging your customers to give up and switch to BlueBeam or some other software that I hate using but might actually hate less than this ridiculous change.  

I am beyond angry at the thoutht of how many hours, days and weeks of productivity I am about to lose at having to figure out how to navigate this garbage.

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    Joyful_observer6918
    Participant
    Mar 25, 2025 9:43 AM UTC

    Completely agree - so frustrating. Why, oh why did they make such a drastic change?

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      Robin29056518e5du
      Participant
      Jan 30, 2024 2:28 PM UTC

      Thank you for mentioning BlueBeam. I do not understand why a perfectly good softwar/layout went through the most unnecessary changes ever. I keep getting error messages, it took forever to get my attachments to stop becoming links, and the layout is obsurd. ADOBE - LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

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        Brycesteiner
        Inspiring
        Jan 23, 2024 5:29 PM UTC

        You are right! It's awful. I'm going to try and see where to change it back. I don't seem to have the Hamburger menu that Thom Parker shows in his screenshot.

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          Brycesteiner
          Inspiring
          Jan 23, 2024 5:30 PM UTC

          On the Mac I think I found it under the view menu.

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          JR Boulay
          Community Expert
          JR BoulayCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          Jan 23, 2024 10:35 AM UTC

          You must revert to the Classic UI: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-2023-how-to-revert-to-classic-gui-user-interface/td-p/14052807
          Consider the new Acrobat as a beta version, many features are missing or half-implemented.

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          Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
            Thom Parker
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            Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            Jan 22, 2024 6:43 PM UTC

            Switch back to the old one while you can.

             

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            Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
              Joe349578044bpbAuthor
              Participant
              Jan 30, 2024 1:19 PM UTC

              I found that not too long after posting my rant.  Glad it's an available option!

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              Amal.
              Amal.
              Legend
              Jan 22, 2024 6:11 PM UTC

              Hi @Joe349578044bpb

               

              Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

               

              We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change. We are actively working on all the feedbacks and we will address them with the highest priority. For more information about the new Acrobat please go through the help page https://adobe.ly/42cxeRE

               

              Hope this information will help.

               

              Regards

              Amal

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