Acrobat Pro DC is a mistake

It is constantly locking me out of all the functions. It is paid and still refuses to let me edit my docs.  This is RIDICULOUS. 

Hello. My name is Allison and I HATE Adobe Acrobat Reader DC! It has turned a previously pleasant experience editing PDFs into a nightmare! I, too, ONLY joined the forum to express my dislike for the new "unimproved and decidedly worse" version.

I found my answer here:

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I'm a mac girl, but you can search their site and find a windows version. I downloaded and installed XI before uninstalling DC so when it finished installing it told me it found more recent certificates (whatever that is) and asked if I wanted to use the newer version. I selected the default and then uninstalled DC. Works like a charm now.

To be fair, there were some updates in DC that were an improvement- it was easier to re-size or move added text and it saved my signatures so I didn't have to clear one choice and replace it with another. BUT I can only RESIZE signatures. I can't rotate them (and my husband's signature is crooked). I could cuss under my breath and halfway live with that. I can even mildly tolerate the huge new interface. BUT once I edited a page in a document- added text or signed my name, it locked me into that specific page and would NOT allow me to scroll to any of the other pages! When I'm filling out multiple page documents, you can see why I'm frustrated that I have to save and close the entire thing and then re-open the document to fill out the next page and repeat that process for each page! WHY??? Completely asinine!

I hope this helps. And I hope Adobe is listening to all this negative feedback and working to get back to a workable version. Until then I'm not updating.

Adobe,

Not only have you produced some terrible software in Acrobat Pro DC, but your support is absolutely shocking!

Acrobat Pro DC keeps freezing when I access certain features and a job that should have taken me less than 2 hours has taken me over 20 so far - and I am up against a brick wall with the bugs that prevent me from completing my project.

I have never purchased an Adobe product before, but I can tell you..... this is going to be the last one ever!!!

This is the most TERRIBLE software Adobe has made. It gets stuck so many times.

I could not agree more. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be looking for work.  If this is the future of Acrobat it will be the last edition I every buy.  I'll be uninstalling the two copies I mistakenly purchased without realizing the complete departure from previous versions. 

Why not call it something else other than Acrobat because this isn't the Acrobat I've grown to love over the years.  Sorry but this products is a total FAIL in my opinion!

I must agree that DC has been a bumpy ride, I can't even get the software to open on my Mac.  This is not good.

It sounds like there is a failure to communicate between Open GL document and pwillener; I'm just not certain who is not understanding. 

I had Acrobat X installed but it didn't have the PDF portfolio feature so I purchased a subscription to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I had lots of trouble installing it and, after I finally got it installed I successfully built a 22 page PDF portfolio.  Now, I am unable to share it with my friends because all that happens when I post the file is that there is a Cover Sheet that is the only thing that shows. It says "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later." and then has a button that says "Get Adobe Reader Now!"  Why?  When I tried to Get Adobe Reader, Now! it failed saying something about the top line was too large.

I'm very disappointed in the tutorials, help pages and all of the Pro DC related help items because that are not user friendly.  I just wanted a way to share the PDF project I've been working on for months.  Apparently Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is NOT the means to sharing PDF files or portfolios.

I agree - it's awful. It's like a Toy Town version of something that was professional software. Plus it's messing with my installation of  Pro, which I am NOT happy about. (I signed up to this forum specially to put these comments in. Adobe have really messed up on this 'update'. I thought only Microsoft and apple were this arrogant.

I don't anything Adobe. I have a paid subscription of all the costly softwares Adobe has and I get the worst PDF reader from the ones who made PDF documents famous! I just want Adobe Reader XI back on my laptop..that is that and problem solved.

My current complaint:

I have a document to complete that has some things set up as fields and some things just as typed blanks.  Probably because it recognizes it as containing a fillable form, DC won't give me typewriter options on the pages that have only blanks.  Consequence?  I have to fill out the rest by hand?

I got around this by sending the whole thing to a PDF printer.  Once I open the "printed" PDF in Reader DC, I can use the typewriter and other tools everywhere.

This looks to me like a poor design decision.  If there's a way to switch modes, it wasn't apparent when I ran into this problem last night.

Has anyone seen a solution?

My work computer recently had to be completely reworked and I had no choice but to install Acrobat DC. I've tried everything to make the InDesign-created PDFs look good, but the type looks HORRIBLE even when the screen view is enlarged. We send drafts of our documents company-wide, so I'm just waiting for complaints about readability. What were the creators of this version thinking? Help!!