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New Adobe Acrobat DC Layout

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
June 30, 2023
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A couple of weeks ago I opened a pdf and found that there is a new layout to my Adobe Acrobat DC. It appears to be very much the excat same program, but now all of the Tools are on the left, rather than the right, as well as a few other minor changes to the appearance. What I can't figure out is if there has been any added benefits. Hard to imagine it would be an update that only forces you to relearn where all of the Tools are, but doesn't offer an added benefit with the change.

And if there is no benefit, is there a way to revert back to the older layout?

Modern Acrobat

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bbhutchin

Participant

Adobe should fire whoever or whaterver team came out with the 'New' layout immediately! It is complete trash.

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defaulttvdvy2p4na9w

Participant

As a 30 year user of adobe products, I can't understand why they did ask the millions of end users what we thought of the major change in their product. Don't they build the products for their cutomers? It's not a matter of learing a new product, it's learning an old product revamped for the functions of the developers. I am all for making things better and have made many adjustments and learn many new softwares over the years, but this one takes the cake. You are taking our brain on a rollercoaster ride during our work days and nights! Did you think about this? Working people don't have the luxury of taking the time to relearn an old product, should have introduced a new product and kept the DC product alone. That's just my opinion. I have already figured out most of my daily functions in DC, but I am not happy with the set up at all. Thanks for letting me voice my opinion.

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defaulttvdvy2p4na9w

Participant

My comments were just that, just comments. I will continue to use the new format, but it's a brain buster when you are working in the program all day and you have to remember everything has been moved to the opposite side of the page. A little research with the end users, could have saved some heartache. Thanks for the the information provided.

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Lorri21727366yi67

Participant

Maybe someone can help me. I contacted Adobe and found a way to use to old format for editing pdfs. However, the option that all other programs have, and the old pdf had, was to use the column at the right of the page (look at this one now) and quickly move higher or lower on the page. This does not appear in Adobe Acrobat, so I have to place my cursor on a line and use the keyboard arrows to move up and down the page. It's a real hassle. Is there any way to get that feature to work again

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Nicolas27972086ja7c

Participant

I'm sorry, but this new layout is a very bad idea which obviously didn't go through a thorough UX process. I'm a Mac user and it's annoying editing on Acobat Pro Dc now. all tools keep hidden. You need to do more clicks to get a tool. First, you need to click on the tool category and then click on the tool that you need to use. I wish I could revert to the old version. Sadly I can't find a way. If anyone knows how to do so on Mac please let me know.

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DanconKP

Inspiring

To disable the new experience,
- Windows: Click the hamburger menu ( 3 lines ) at the upper left corner and choose Disable new Acrobat.
- macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.

WebPixie

Participant

Agree this new layout is dreadful. No way to customize where buttons are. Why a floating toolbar that is in the way? Can't remove the commenting icon (I don't use it...EVER) Can't put the tools I do use in that toolbar. DREADFUL.

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Christopher331439282a9u

Participant

I agree these changes are total unhelpful. I swear if MS and Adobe dont stop helping me be productive I'll cry.

LibertyTalk FM

Participant

For the love of God, is Adobe bent on running some sort of a social experiment? Have used their products for 20+ years all the way back to the black and white Macintosh days and nearly every recent 'update' is some absurd 'let's screw with end-users' workflow' so we can waste their time as they Google for a solution to undo the disasterous change.

Whether it is fundamentally altering the functions of tools, i.e. swatch pallet, loss of Pantone, zoom, free transform, or forwarding a woke political agenda of renaming "Master Pages" to "Parent Pages" hard to state any of it adds value.

Perhaps a silver lining to this is that it will serve to finally motivate creators to look for alternatives.

Because paying endlessly for a continually degraded product/efficiency/experience is very poor customer service.

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Louise in the Midwest

Participant

This new layout is the worst. It's not intuitive at all. It's very hard to find what you need. It takes more steps to don a task than before.

Everyone in my department has switched back to the old layout.

nkeck

Participant

I agree, this new layout is not intuitive and I have been using it long enough now to know I hate it. I really hope they DO NOT get rid of the option to Disable New Acrobat.

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Nicolas27972086ja7c

Participant

Where is that option? I need to go back to the old version. This new one is driving me nuts!

mariahweyne

Inspiring

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Lorri21727366yi67

Participant

It used to be easy to delete a page on the old Acrobat. I can't figure out how to do that at all.

AnandSri

Community Manager

Hi All!

I hope you all 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 & get more out of Acrobat.

As we made these changes in the interface, we have tried to ensure all tools & features currently supported retain their familiar functionalities and workflows as they did in the previous version. We are committed to addressing any gaps or issues users report related to any break in current workflows in all our past & upcoming releases.

If any of your current workflows are not functioning as expected, share them with us on this thread, and we will address them with the highest priority.

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 feedback. 

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.

Thanks,

Anand Sri.

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Ric32646993ebh7

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'Be kind and respectful'

Half trues and empty frases are very disrespectful, Anand Sri. Though your wording might be polite and even border hysterical enthusiasm ("We appreciate your valuable feedback!"- don't faint now, will you), you didn't address any of the concerns, didn't offer any explanation on why or how this interface switcheroo is better for users (it's not) and simply showed us your company doesn't really care.

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Brighton Lance

Known Participant

I've been using it for a week or so now. Overall, it has a nicer feel I think.

But please can we have back:

Go to first/last page icons - so can do with one click. I don't see why it deemed a good idea to have to click one page at a time.

Magnifying glass icon that allows dragging around a target area that then zooms in to that selection - this is sorely missed, I spend a lot of time trying to interpret client comments/amendments and trying to spot their exact deletions etc at 100% is virtually impossible. On the new Acrobat I have to laboriously zoom and then drag around to the chosen spot (often I'm talking literally where a client has changed a semi-colon to a comma, it's fun, honest) and it's killing me.

As a general point, my single biggest request for Acrtobat Pro would be to radically improve the ability to spot where comments are referring to on the page, I've always felt it's way too subtle. Could it not have a clear highlight cirle that shows for each comment perhaps?