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Joel Cherney
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Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2023
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Older versions of Acrobat

  • November 27, 2023
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Is it possible in any way to roll back to the previous version of Acrobat?

 

I am about to start a separate post about my actual issue, but in general, I tire of fighting with the new and "improved" version of Acrobat, which has disabled many tools that I am accustomed to using, and has absolutely zero new features that I want to use. It's a major workflow impediment. Of course, most apps have a "previous versions" selection in Creative Cloud, but Acrobat does not. Is there any way for me, as a Creative Cloud subscriber, to roll back to the 2022 version of Acrobat?

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jane-e
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jane-eCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2023

 

Is it possible in any way to roll back to the previous version of Acrobat?

By @Joel Cherney

 

 

 

If you are talking about the New Experience, you can disable it.

 

Steps to enable [and disable] the new experience

  • To enable the new experience, go to View > Enable new Acrobat and click Restart.
  • To disable the new experience,
    • Windows: Click the hamburger menu ( 3 lines ) at the upper left corner and choose Disable new Acrobat.
    • macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.

 

Details about the New Experience here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html 

 

 

Jane

 

Joel Cherney
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November 27, 2023

Thanks for your response, jane-e! But I actually disabled the New Experience within ninety seconds of my accidental update. I was in the final stretch of a PDF forms project, and I didn't want to stop to learn a brand-new interface while I was trying to put the finishing touches on a form, immediately before delivery to the client. 

 

No, the functionality I am missing is the ability to "Save a Copy" to remove restrictions and Reader Extensions from a PDF produced with AEM Forms Designer 6.5 (née Livecycle Designer) when attempting to import XML form data. Fortunately, I had an old PDF lying around that I'd made before the unintentional upgrade, which had the restrictions and Reader Extensions already removed, so I didn't need to post a second thread about it. However, I'm sure that this issue will reoccur, as importing translated form data into a PDF is something that I do every day, and some of those PDFs might well have been made with AEM Forms Designer. 

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