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How to turn off Auto Adjust Layout by default?

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 11, 2023
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Hey, guys.

I use Acrobat frequently in a professional capacity to edit PDFs I have generated through Excel and Google Sheets. The PDFs from those programs have color coding, cell bordering, and text size elements that are very important to the final document. However, as soon as the new update went live, Acrobat started to open these documents, immediately begin the Auto-Adjust Layout process (no way to cancel) and promptly remove all colors, the majority of cell borders, and revert a good amount (but not all) of the text formatting. This makes my generated documents completely useless for their intended purpose, and there is no way to revert the changes once they've been made.

Is there some way to turn this feature off? I cannot access any edit settings, the gear becomes greyed out as soon as the process starts. When I click the info bubble beside the Auto-Adjust line, all it says is this very helpful tidbit :

"Content adjusts as you edit, like in"

That's it. "like in" without any program names or further information (see screenshot). This feature has made Acrobat not only unhelpful for PDF edits, but actively damaging to the files I import. There must be some way to set it to only activate when I want it to, right? I've looked everywhere but can't find it. Elsewhere I have heard Adobe refer to this as an intended feature of inDesign, but this is Acrobat, all I need to do is open PDFs the way that they were generated and sign them. If anyone has any information, it'd be much appreciated.

Specs:

Lenovo ThinkPad 2019

Intel i5 Processor

Windows 11 64-bit

Acrobat Pro CC

Thanks!

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S de Saulles

Participating Frequently

Why oh why have Adobe implemented this weird feature as the default setting? Absolute madness. Very clever, but I might want to use it on 1 in 100 PDFs I edit at most.

The Adobe search within Acrobat Pro doesn't even have "Auto Adjust" as a thing, so thanks very much to those below who've found where it's hidden!

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Elizabeth31826932w897

New Participant

Agree. this is absolutely a useless tool to have on Auto. should be a tool you select specifically for whatever you might be working on.

S_S

Community Manager

Hi @Elizabeth31826932w897,

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for sharing the feedback.

Please feel free to add it to the wish form here: https://adobe.ly/4dfypDu to ensure it reaches the dev team for review and future implementations.

Thanks,

Souvik

Bernd Alheit

Adobe Expert

Does you use Acrobat with the new UI?

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Paul29495221qrs5

New Participant

I'm using the latest version on Windows 11.

How do I enable the "new UI"?

S_S

Community Manager

I also had the same problem with modifying call out text boxes. Very frustrating.... I disabled the new interface (which I absolutely hated) and the problem was resolved. Thank you.

Hi @RABBLE_ROUSER,

Hope you are doing well.

Thanks for taking the time and letting us know what worked for you.

Regards,
Souvik.

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Kiki Litchford

New Participant

Acrobat updated over the weekend and gave me the same problem when I got to work Monday morning. I frequently edit certificates directly in Adobe, and the update auto-enabled the content adjustment function with no indicator of how to turn it off. It "auto-adjusts" my single-page file into two, apparently setting some new default margin that will be a bear to reverse every time I try to edit something - why not just pull the margins from the original document like the legacy editor does?

The solution that worked for me was backing out of the Edit PDF function by going to File>Revert. Once the document was back to the way it should look, I went to Edit>Preferences>Content Editing and unchecked the box for "Enable auto-adjust by default", then restarted the program.