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April 15, 2015
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Give us back the Zoom Marquee tool (Acrobat DC)

  • April 15, 2015
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So I had to crop a series of PDFs, for which I needed to zoom closer to the area of interest. To my disgust, the zoom marquee has been replaced by a "Photoshop-like" Pan and Zoom Window. This is a clunky tool that I don't even use in PhotoShop.

Who the hell is making these decisions to remove functionality from Acrobat? Let me explain what is needed:

1. In the toolbar, allow user to right-click and customize (such as removing unwanted buttons).

2. Allow user to add Zoom Marquee tool. When user needs to zoom, they click the Zoom Marquee tool, and then they drag a marquee to indicate the area that should be magnified. Do you understand?

Increasingly, I'm getting the impression that Acrobat DC is like the Metro interface for Windows 8, or the reworked Pages on the Mac. Adobe is inserting tablet and phone controls into a desktop product, which is reducing the usefulness of the Acrobat product.

I don't understand why a tablet user would need a Pan and Zoom Window. Wouldn't a tablet user use a three-finger motion to zoom?

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    Correct answer 12312312414

    I found that unchecking Preferences -> GPU Performance -> Animated Zoom returned the zoom tool the old behavior (drawing a marquee around what I wanted to zoom in on)

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    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 17, 2017

    You have always been able to right-click your toolbar and / or go to the View menu to add / remove tools in Acrobat. Here are the Zoom tools shown from the View menu. If it is checked, then it is on your toolbar.

    If this is new to you, explore these other menus by right clicking your toolbar and selecting what you want to have. My favorites in addition to the marquee zoom are undo and redo from the Edit tools.

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      raib47111368
      Participant
      June 21, 2017

      Been struggling for ages with the panning rubbish. Thanks soooo much people! Maquee is back!

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        Anonymous
        August 26, 2016

        I got here by Googling "indesign marquee zoom" because I was missing this in InDesign. It's working now. Thanks so much for the solution!

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        toanc8205402
        Participant
        April 7, 2016

        I agree 100%.  Removing the marquee zoom function is a very bad decision.  When I need to zoom, I want to be able to drag my mouse over the area I need to zoom, of course, the function is no longer available.  I have to use + or - key to zoom and then using my up/down and left/right key to move to the area that I need to look at.  This would take me at least 10 + click to get to where I need to get.  What a big step backward.  I think Adobe should do an update and add this function back on.

        A very unhappy customer !!!!

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        Legend
        April 7, 2016

        ‌the replies told how to put the tool back, it never went away, just harder to find.

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        Sue Lange1000
        Participant
        October 28, 2015

        Thank you all for solving both of these incredibly annoying problems. I love you all!

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        Andrea_ColorInk
        Participant
        August 28, 2015

        We found the marquee zoom tool! Ok, by "we" I mean our intern, but still...

        Right click on the tool bar at the top to add a tool, Show Select and Zoom Tools, Marquee Zoom. It then is on your tool bar. I can't find it in the Tools tab or anything, but at least now we have it.

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          chrisdgriffin
          Participant
          September 1, 2015


          Thanks for the correct answer.

          Chris.

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            stefan_dickerson
            Participant
            July 3, 2015

            Thank you so much "12312312414" for discovering and sharing that tip. Preferences > GPU Performance > Uncheck "Animated Zoom" did it for me too. Never would have found it in a million years. Suddenly not having marquee zoom was devastating.

            It's a perplexing choice to make that the default setting because there are so many other ways to progressively zoom if you wanted to (cmd +/-, trackpad pinch) why on earth would we want another tool that behaves the exact same way?

            Stefan

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            Legend
            July 4, 2015

            This is a rather confusing set of messages. This is the ACROBAT Feature Request forum, and the original question was certainly about the new Acrobat DC. But most of the replies seem to be about Illustrator...

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              Andrea_ColorInk
              Participant
              August 28, 2015

              Yeah, that's a great solution for this in Illustrator, but like Test said, the OP was talking about Acrobat and how stupid it is that there is no marquee zoom in there. Which still stands. And if I click on that stupid magnifying glass that pops up the search one more time I'm just going to give up and go home...

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                FamilyTreeCMG
                Participant
                June 18, 2015

                I agree 100%.  This is a major setback for the type of work I do in illustrator.  I am constantly moving from full view of a large format sheet (18x24 to 20x30) to a very close zoom (3x4) to a specific area of the page.  The scrubby zoom is completely ineffective for that scenario.  The Zoom Marquee tool needs to be added back in as an option.  My productivity just took a major nose dive.

                  12312312414
                  12312312414Correct answer
                  Participant
                  June 22, 2015

                  I found that unchecking Preferences -> GPU Performance -> Animated Zoom returned the zoom tool the old behavior (drawing a marquee around what I wanted to zoom in on)

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                    FamilyTreeCMG
                    Participant
                    June 22, 2015

                    Aaaaah.... you are a saint!  Thank you so much for sharing that setting.  I never would have found that and as soon as I saw this message in my inbox it only took me 30 second to switch it and get back to "normal".

                    Thanks so much!

                    Christine

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                      chrisdgriffin
                      Participant
                      June 12, 2015

                      I agree, I'm missing the zoom marquee tool. Also am I the only one getting confused by the fact the magnify glass symbol is now used for zoom in some applications and find in others?

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