New Acrobat changes position of panes

[KTdid.]

The latest version of Acrobat Pro flipped the placement of the Navigation and Tools panes. The Navigation pane is now on the right and vice versa.

I imagine this is disruptive for many users, if not all, as it messes with our mouse action habits, among other other reasons.

I cannot find a way to adjust the placement of the panes. Is there a way?

[gary_sc]

Hi, @KTdid. the answer is "no" and Yes.

No, you cannot change the sides of where the Navigation and Tools Panes are located. They are locked into this "New Look."

However, if you go to the View menu To where it says "Disable New Acrobat," you see Acrobat as how it should look.

Hope that helps.

[KTdid.]

Thanks, @gary_sc. What a bummer. Hopefully, Adobe improves upon this and makes adjusting our panes customizable like they are in all other Adobe apps. I will have to use the legacy version until then. It would also be an incredible improvement if they would allow us to choose size settings for UI text like all other Adobe apps do as well. 

[S. S]

Hi @KTdid.,

Hope you are doing well. 

We appreciate your valuable feedback! We're always looking for ways to improve Acrobat, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your thoughts 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 can be more productive and get more out of Acrobat.

We are actively working on all the currently unavailable features, such as moving, hiding, or re-sizing the floating/quick toolbar, and are being addressed with the highest priority.

If your critical workflows are impacted, you can switch to the old UI from the “Menu” on the top left corner of Windows 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.

-Souvik

[KTdid.]

I can tell you that a large number of my fellow PDF remediators are also not happy with the panel posistion changes. We've all opted to use the legacy version instead of using the new UI. I think it's critical that Adobe listen to their users.

[KTdid.]

I'd like to add that along with the ability to move panels like we can in all other Adobe applications, it would supremely helpful and increase efficiency to allow us to open more than one panel at a time. 

[S. S]

Hi @KTdid.,

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

While the left-hand toolbar is moveable on the screen, I understand your perspective on being able to move the rest.

Please add your feedback here: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/ to ensure it reaches the dev team for review and further investigation.

-Souvik

[Simon Atkinson]

I hope that you are well aware that we do not think this is an improvement. You've swapped the panels over for the sake of it, and its a classic cop-out to tell us that in time we will get used to it and realize the efficiency benefits.