New Adobe Acrobat UI is terrible

Whoever led the introduction of this retrograde upgrade leading to timewasting and frustration should be held to account

I totally agree. my UI just changed recently, so I wondered that this already happened nearly a year ago...

I'm glad this can be changed, the new UI is utterly terrible.

It looks like this update has been thought only about tablet users. But not everybody uses a tablet, especially the core professional users of Acrobat. I had a hard time figuring out where is the page number so I could switch pages quickly, and another figuring out how to switch the page view. All of this because it is located on the bottom right. Nice for tablet users, next to your hand. But the last thing you'll see on a screen.

Then comes the floating tool panel. Why can't we pin it somewhere?

Please, give us the possibility to adjust the location of those toolbars. Even for tablet users, left-handed people will have a hard time. Every Adobe software is very good for personalizing the UI, why not the new version of Acrobat?

I'm so happy someone else feels similarly to I do.  I've been struggling this past year to utilize Adobe effectively and this just got amplified with some recent PDF work.  I'm glad that one can revert to the old interface and this reminds me that I really need to research an alternative bit of software for the minor PDF editing I need to do.

YES! I just googled adobe acrobat design terrible - because i am sitting here STRUGGLING to download a document, and thinking - am I losing my mind? Why is this so difficult? Honestly. How is it this bad, Adobe is such a huge company, the UX should be mindblowingly awesome....right? 

I agree ... new UI is terrible. I can't believe a firm with an amazing reputation for design released such a pathetic UI.

I have licensed Acrobat Pro for years (as an individual and for my company).  I am canceling all of our Acrobat subscriptions.

Totally agree that the new UI is bad. Placing the navigation tools on the right-hand side of the screen is a horrible, horrible idea. Who does that??? This is counter-intuitive and couter-productive, and I find it appalling that anyone could think this was a good idea to begin with. Tools and menus belong to the left of the screen. It's been like that with pretty much every software out there for over 30 years. Even MS-Paint has its tools on the left, and there's a reason for that: A) It just works, and; B) we read from left to right, so we intuitively look to the left of the screen when an app comes up. The vast majority of languages on this planet are read from left to right, so tools on the left is a no-brainer and should always be the default.

If Adobe wants to flip menu placement on the screen for whatever reason, at least make it an option that can be changed by the user. Also, make the traditional layout (tools on the left) the default.  That way, someone using a language that reads from right to left will be able to change it up if they need to. 

Thankfully, I was able to revert back to the old version of the UI, and the navigation and tools are where they used to be. If the new UI change becomes permanent with no way of reverting, I will have to look for alternatives. Simple as that. Yes, it's that bad. I simply could not put up with this.

This drawing is a perfect illustration of the new Acrobat interface.

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Agreed! The new UI is not very intuitive and I find that many of the tasks or actions I used to perform have changed. Very frustrating 

It seems as if the folks who were behind the new design never actually used Acrobat? Or have we been using it inefficiently and incorrectly all along? What a nightmare this has been.