@reginal79098089 wrote on 22 June:
Adobe Acrobat DC is now TOTALLY different in the toolbar layouts!
Hi Reginal,
I have yet to hear from someone who likes the "new experience" in Acrobat, but it is easy to turn off!
Steps to enable [and disable] the new experience
- To enable the new experience, go to View > Enable new Acrobat and click Restart.
- 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.
Details about the New Experience here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html
Does this help?
Jane
Was this even tested before it was released to the public?
By @Jerome DCProud Lewis
Adobe has pre-release testers for all the Creative Suite programs and Acrobat. Occassionally I see Adobe announce for people to join the testing program.
Many of us community experts here in the forums are testers for Adobe, and many of us have been doing this since the 1980s and 1990s.
I can't recall much positive feedback from the testers before the "modern" Acrobat was released to the public. I know my comments back to the engineers were fairly extensive. Some things were improved (darkening the icons from a light gray to a dark gray, for example). But for the most part, the comments have fallen on deaf ears.
Over the past 18 months, I personally have continued to use and test the newest beta releases, but I often have to abandon them and switch to another computer that runs the "classic" interface. I have only so much time to donate to Adobe to dignose problems (and provide detailed bug reports and comments to the engineers). I, like most folks here, have a job to do. Working for free for Adobe is not on my to-do list.
3 suggestions:
- Disable the new Acrobat and revert back to the "classic" interface. I believe that all of the old functionality is still active there.
- Join the Acrobat beta testing group. I don't know where to direct you to join, but try searching for a public page in the Acrobat section of Adobe's website.
- Consider another brand of PDF editing software. The PDF file format was placed into the public domain about 15 years ago and since then, other companies have developed competing programs. Wikipedia has a decent list of other brands. One of our favorites is ABBY Fine Reader/PDF.
But note that none of these competing programs have all the features of Acrobat, so if you're in certain industries, you're really stuck with Adobe Acrobat. These industry-specific features include:
- Accessible PDFs and documents
- PDF forms
- Printing, graphic arts, and preflighting for print
- Security
- Digital signatures
- Automated PDF documents (aka, stuff like bank statements created from a database a on grand scale)
So see if any other alternative brand gets the job done for you. Be careful of the company's country of origin: you might not be able to install software from certain countries, which is the case here in the US for government computers. Example: FoxIt is a Chinese company and usually is not allowed on our government clients' computers.
As always, don't forget to voice your comments on UserVoice and click the button to VOTE. That is the only place where Adobe takes notice of customers.
Let Adobe know:
You can voice your opinion about the new interface at UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...
Be sure to leave a comment about your experience with the new interface. They need to hear from users. And don't forget to click the VOTE button.
FYI, UserVoice is Adobe's official website where it reads and takes into account suggestions and complaints from users of its various products. On the other hand, this community forum is a user-to-user help forum.
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The 2023 updated interface for Adobe Acrobat is causing many users severe problems.
This post gives instructions on how to revert to the classic interface (i.e., the original interface for the past 10 years) and ditch what Adobe calls its "Modern Viewer."
In Windows Acrobat:
- Locate the "hamburger menu" in the upper left corner (3 horizontal bars where the old "File" menu used to be).
- Select Disable New Acrobat.
In Mac Acrobat:
- From the View menu at the top, select Disable New Acrobat.
Let Adobe know:
You can voice your opinion about the new interface at UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...
Be sure to leave a comment about your opinion and experience with the new interface. They need to hear from us users.
FYI, UserVoice is Adobe's official website where it reads and takes into account suggestions and complaints from users of its various products. On the other hand, this community forum is a user-to-user help forum and information posted here rarely reaches ears or eyes at Adobe.
Learn about the new interface:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html
Any idea why this "fix" won't work for some? I have tried numerous times to disbale the new version as described above, but I keep getting the new version. Thoughts? Help!
By @Proofreader
I'm a volunteer who does not work for Adobe and cannot answer this question. I've been able to go back and forth several times as I answer questions. I think this needs its own thread so it gets more attention. Can you start a new thread that describes the issue? Include screenshots, your OS, and your version of Acrobat DC.
Thank you,
Jane
Hamburger menu = 3 horizontal bars like this.
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