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The new Acrobat layout

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
December 19, 2022
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Does anyone else hate the New Acrobat layout as much I do? Not a user friendly layout in my opinion. If you don't know what I'm talking about, click on the try the new version banner on the top of Acrobat. I think it will appear top right if you haven't already clicked on it. Curious to hear your feedback.

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Elizabeth37985600wc23

Participant

Yes, absolutely. It is awful in every way.

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pegprice

Participating Frequently

Yes, hate hate hate it. A nonintuitive interface. There was nothing wrong with the other one. What the heck?

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Noel31843747uqnu

Participant

I sooooooo hate it!!! I agree that it's not user-friendly at all. I want my old layout back, or at least give us a way to customize our toolbars & shortcuts. It's taking me longer to do my tasks because of this update.

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danbpc

Inspiring

there is hope

To disable the new experience,

Windows: Click the hamburger menu ( ) at the upper left corner and choose Disable new Acrobat.
macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi there

For information about the new Acrobat UI, please go through the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html and see if that works.

Regards

Amal

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danbpc

Inspiring

I read through your FAQ on the new interface. Why should I have to rebuild tools and menus that worked in Acrobat in order to have a less useful interface? The change does not allow for evolutionary change. It has totally distroyed my ablity to use acrobat without wasting massive amouts of time.

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danbpc

Inspiring

There is a way to get the old UI back. I found these instructions elsewhere. Why Adobe could not create a preview of the new UI and ask my choice of UI before forcing this awful change on me is the question.

To disable the new experience,

Windows: Click the hamburger menu ( ) at the upper left corner and choose Disable new Acrobat.
macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat

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Ron246170455ywz

Participant

It sucks and we hate it too. I turned off "new acrobat" and found I couldn't customize the top toolbar like I could before. This is all messed up.

Bevi Chagnon @ PubCom

Participating Frequently

As an Acrobat beta tester, I've hated it from the first beta several months ago.

For my shop's work, which primarily is accessible PDFs, it's a nightmare. I STILL don't know what most of the microscopic grey icons mean.

I need to get work done, so I've turned it off on my production computer. I suggest you do, too.

To answer the question why did Adobe do this?

Because someone in marketing decided the interface had to be modernized. It appears that the person/team assigned to do the redesign 1) has no experience in actually using Acrobat in different work settings (prepress, graphic design, office docs, accessibility, etc.), 2) has no data on what users need, and 3) has little experience in UX design.

Complete failure.