Acrobat DC User Interface: Way to Change Theme? (Too Bright)

I'm coming into this discussion a year after the OP, because our office just switched to this new version.  Acrobat has been getting harder and harder to work with (hard to get rid of tool sidebars, for example), and this new version is decidedly uglier and harder to read, etc.

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Hi,

Thanks for sharing your feedback on light UI.

The issue has been passed on to the engineering team and the team is working to provide a better user experience and address all the concerns shared with them.

Thanks!

Come on Adobe, fix this UI.

This is now beyond a joke.

So I finally got a hold of someone at Adobe and voiced my, and most people's, concerns regarding the new UI, useless changes, and overall headache that DC has caused. The Adobe rep thanked me for alerting them of the issues we are having. I asked them why the changes were made in the first place and was told that since Adobe has a monoply in the business, they really don't care about what the customers think or feel. They said that Adobe has realized that it is pointless to invest any money in improving the product as "customers have nowhere else to go".... it actually makes sense; funding any development doesn't really increase any revenue, so it's pointless to improve the product. They are also further cutting costs by hiring brainless app developers that can't find jobs they are more qualified to do as fast food restaurants aren't hiring.

He once again thanked me for my concerns and assured me that Adobe doesn't give a flying fk what we think.

Eight months on and, I dare say, many feature requests from users and this UI is still a big buttoned white mess.

Every other program in the Creative Cloud suite defaults to a darker theme which I have embraced - so why the insistence on an overly bright UI for Acrobat? Sure, make Acrobat Reader a Fisher Price Toy for the masses if you think it makes sense, but please don't patronise Acrobat Pro users.

Please fix this Adobe, enough is enough.

Just another user here hunting for my sunglasses before I can use Acrobat DC. This nasty looking program is such a backwards step it's hard to believe that Adobe ever passed it. It looks like a beta-layout example, not a finished product.  Do not even dare to hope that Adobe read these forums - they don't. Fill in the feature request form like I did (Feature Request/Bug Report Form), although judging by years of experience with this lazy Adobe company, none will EVER be actioned. All those fools who signed up to CC have helped Adobe become even worse, since they no longer have to do any work at all to keep their fat monthly pay checks rolling in.

How did this get passed user testing? This isn't a preference its a usability issue, the white interface dominates and distracts from the PDF I'm working on and makes it hard to focus on PDF content.

I hate you Adobe. I just hate you so much.

I just completely uninstalled it and using my Acrobat 11 Pro. I am so not in favor (not just the color) of that whole user interface. First I looked on the forum to see if I can change the UI including where the save as etc buttons are then I gave up and uninstalled.

Agree. The Acrobat Reader DC UI is way too bright and makes it very difficult to judge colours onscreen & to read a document as there is little to no differentiation between a white page background and the outside of the page.