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How do I go back to the old Acrobat?

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August 23, 2023
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The update is terrible. Comment tools are complicated and/or missing. Nothing is where it was

How can I reinstall the last version??

Modern Acrobat

Correct answer Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

To revert to the old interface:

On Macs, go to the View menu and select Disable New Acrobat.
On Windows, to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner (where the old File menu used to be) and select Disable New Acrobat, it's about 2/3 down the menu.

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Mark Shian LS

Participant

I totally agree. The latest Acrobat update is atrocious. Horrible. Why would you completely change the pretty much where everything used to exist? It's just ludicrous. This is NOT an improvement! Adobe please stop this nonsense! Oh and thanks for giving us the option to opt out and revert back to the old version!

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Amelia29107283dt59

Participant

This is a utility, not a fashion statement. You can enhance features without redesigning the user interface. I know! Let's design the next car model to have the steering wheel in the trunk while the driver's seat remains up front, but just to jazz things up we'll also make the driver sit on the right side of the car rather than the left. We'll call it innovation!

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PositiveEnergy

Inspiring

Switch from New Adobe Acrobat Reader Interface to Old
https://youtu.be/IIV8iKREunw

annen33814879

Participant

Thanks @PositiveEnergy It works in Reader via view / disable, but NOT in my version of Acrobat Pro.

In Acrobat Pro 2023.006.20320 it looks like its File / Revert but its greyed out. ?

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Tariq Ahmad

Community Manager

Hi All!

Hope you are doing well.

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 any unavailable features, such as customizing the All Tools positioning or user interface. And we will address them with the highest priority.

A point to note is that as we made these changes in the interface, we have ensured all tools & features that are currently supported retain their familiar functionalities and workflows as they did in the previous version. We proactively address any gaps or issues users report regarding any break in current workflows.

If your critical workflows are impacted, you can switch to the old UI from the “Menu” on the top left corner of Windows OS and View Menu on MacOS. We will follow up with a detailed community-featured post, guiding you to familiarise yourself with the new interface and regular updates on upcoming changes.

We will follow up on this response with a detailed article explaining the changes, a guide to help familiarise you with the new interface, and regular updates on upcoming changes.

Thank you once again for your feedback, and do look forward to our upcoming releases!

~Tariq

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Darrell R

Participant

I spent about 3-4 weeks trying very hard to 'like all the changes'. I spent probably 2 hours repinning the things I used frequently on the left but I still found it hard to navigate, noticably sluggish and even glitchy when using things like text callout. Much like the new Outlook it just doesn't feel improved for sure. Regardless, I went back because it was seriously impacting my producivity. And posting this because I didn't try it for an hour and give up. I really tried to like it.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

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Adobe has dubbed the new interface design "Spectrum 2" and it seems that it will be migrating to other Adobe software programs.

God help us!

Although I do like the cleaner icons, they are too small, too grey, and not distinguishable (what the F does that icon mean??? The lesson of GUI design in the 1990s is that icons don't work).

The rest of the GUI design is disorganized for the many tasks I must do with Acrobat:

Printing adjustments
Printing preflight
Accessibility review and testing
Accessibility preflight
Forms building
Editorial commenting and markup
Combining PDFs, adding/deleting selected pages
Reviewing and signing legal documents

I waste a lot of time searching for the icon I need for the task. (Is that the icon? No. Is this the one? No. And what is THIS icon?) And I can't control which icons are docked, which ones I must continually expand and expand and expand again to get where I need to be.

I dred to imagine how Spectrum 2 will ruin InDesign and Photoshop. Gah!

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.comCorrect answer

Legend

To revert to the old interface:

On Macs, go to the View menu and select Disable New Acrobat.
On Windows, to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner (where the old File menu used to be) and select Disable New Acrobat, it's about 2/3 down the menu.

|    Bevi Chagnon   |  Designer, Trainer, & Technologist for Accessible Documents ||    PubCom |    Classes & Books for Accessible InDesign, PDFs & MS Office |

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Jann24385499bt8z

Participant

I CAN'T FIND A VIEW MENU!

Abambo

Community Expert

Windows or macOS?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Old Smoothie

Participant

Agree with Matt. The screen layout is messed up now. Can't easily find old commenting / editing tools. I would like the bookmarks / pages returned to left side of screen from the right side where it suddenly moved to. The toolbar that used to appear on top is now on the left side and has changed from what it contained before update. How can I get the old screen format / layout / page appearance like it was before this last update.