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Hi there
Thanks in advance for any support.
I had Adobe Acrobat Pro installed on my old work laptop last year, and it looked like the first attached image, called old version. It looks more like your traditional installed program with the menu bar.
My IT department* just installed Adobe Acrobat Pro on my new laptop, and it looks like this, see image attached called new version. This gives more of an online vibe which I'm not keen on, and no menu bar.
Is this how it should be? Did Adobe redesign it? I preferred the old version. Maybe people familiar with the 'new version' can tell me if this is a good thing and I just need to get used to this drastic new layout. Am I missing any features from the old version?
Many thanks in advance for any help that can be affored to me.
Thank you.
Paul
*I'm asking this forum because I don't think my IT department knows much about Adobe Acrobat, only how to install the programme so they won't be able to answer my query.
Hi All!
We appreciate your valuable feedback! We're always looking for ways to make Acrobat better, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your feedback with us.
We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change, however we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you are able to be more productive & get more out of Acrobat. With the new interface, we aim to:
Hi there,
Hope you are doing well and sorry for the experience.
We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change; however, we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you can be more productive and get more out of Acrobat.
We are actively working on all the feedback provided and will address them with the highest priority.
As you get more comfortable with the new interface, please contact us with specific questions on tools, features, or functionalities. We’re
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I agree. Acrobat's UI team or manager aren't productivity users, and this UI isn't an upgrade. It's change for the sake of change.
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The interface was so bad that I simply cancelled my subscription after several years of buying/subscribing to Adobe products. The change was a severe downgrade from what I was used to and it came without explanation. I didn't know about the option to go back to the older view -- and since I didn't have the choice in the first place to opt out of the crappy new version, well, I cancelled. The new version's functionality is several steps back.
Sincerely,
A truly peeved former customer.
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For me this response was way to long and explained why it was changed. Thank you for that and it did not answer the question. Do we need to get used to the layout or is there a way to change it back. I am and have been an long time user the change in layout has made it harder for me to do things as everything changed at once.
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You CAN switch to the old version: Just click Menu / Disable new Acrobat
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Re new changes and recently pinned comment, read the room! I don't feel that you are listening, how can our feedback be valuable if you ignore it and tell use we will like the totally different thing you created without asking?
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A freaking life saver! Thank you
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OMG THANK YOU WONDERFUL HELPFUL PERSON.
I don't know why Acrobat decided for today to be the day for it to switch to "new" Acrobat, but I just spent about 20 minutes losing my mind trying to figure out what happened. I thought I might have broken my computer mouse click-smashing "Disable New Acrobat" so hard. This is just... this is the worst. THE WORST. It is the most monocrhome, non-user friendly, impossible to navigate, impossible to use, labor-intensive UI garbage of any PDF edit I have EVER USED Christ almighty. And the tiny toolbar that you can't remove from over your document (I think) that is just IN THE WAY no matter where it is, that has different icons, that does not have even half of the things that were on my old toolbar and I could not even FIND most of the tools I normally use - but if I have to click through 7 things to get there for a simple tool, even if it has them, that is just stupid. And to do that without any warning? (Or if there was warning, I missed it) I seriously thought my teenage son had download some free garbage online and set it as my default again as a joke (the Chrome extension that changed all the images on every web page to random photos of Nicholas Cage was a lot funnier, tbh). I'm IT at my job and honestly I cannot wait (kidding - I dread) when this updates on all our PCs there, because people are going to LOSE THEIR MINDS. These people are not tech savy and do not like change nor do they have time to learn ENTIRELY NEW "REDESIGNED" CRAP. There will be mass hysteria in the office streets. Wailing. Gnashing of teeth. All that.
Have I mentioned I hate this? I hate this. This is awful.
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Icebox, reading this just made my Monday morning!! Thanks for telling it like it is.
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All said and done, have seen everyone icluding ADOBE, Microsoft, Facebook etc making changes to their platform without realising the difficulty it creates for the end users who have to spend extra time in searching for a particular thing. If you have to do something worthwhile, make the system better without changing the layout. It seems you are lost in the same address.
TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
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I am a savage Adobe user and see no point of paying so much and getting back so little plus my time and headache to learn a new layout with meanlessness function when your old version allow you to modify, cut and paste in less than a minute. With the new layout, took me hours to cut and paste and can't even allow me to adjust the text font. I am loosen my patience with you....Adobe!
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Please no more updates. It's not broken, don't fix it.
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Adobe - this change is noticeably different and looks nothing like my other programs. First off, the save button is on the right. Which other program has a save button on the right - None! Then the menu's don't pop to the side so that everything is flush left or right. This means, I have flushed info and then a box that sits there and doesn't actually hide. Next, the toolbars that used to be easy to find are small and spread out. What was the point? I previously changed mine back to the old version, but for some reason now, it's forced the new version back. Next time check first because this update is...nvm.
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About Acrobat's brutal updates:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/crazy-and-brutal-update-bis/m-p/14248473
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Adobe, this beyond pisses me off!!!!
I have been using Adobe for years and just when I get used to a format you change!!! Why???? what the F_ck is wrong with the other one? Why cant I be given the opportunity to stay with the previous layout? I pay Adobe faithfully every month and now I have to take My VALUABLE TIME to learn another layout!!!
Why, just why?!!
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Do like all the rest of us.....revert by going to Menu\ Disable New Acrobat......and pray they don't force the new illogical UI on us in the future 🙂
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You sir, are my hero!
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I totally agree with the original post. The layout of the new interface is horrible and confusing. There was nothing wrong with the prior version.
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Way too much has been done here, counter intutive. Cannot find my extensis pro plugins which I use all the time, so reverted to the old and better UI.
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Does anyone have a link to a webpage that illustrates the changes between old and new? Like: it used to be here; now you will look for it here?
For example: where did the text attributes side pane go? I want to edit text!
UPDATE: OK, recent updates to the helpx files now show new interface explanations. This was not the case even late last year. For example:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/edit-text-pdfs.html
... explains the new interface when you want to edit text.
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