100 percent agree with you

This whole Acrobat thing is annoying.  Since the release last year, if I open any PDF; ANY PDF and let it sit there for a while, Reader will freeze up until I close it completely.  Reader will also start showing another copy cat window randomly that I cannot do anything with until I close Reader altogether. It's a big nuisance. I have tried reinstalling, no dice. I also cannot find another forum where this has been even discussed as an issue, which surprises me because I have installed it on multiple Windows 10 Platform computers and it's still a problem, so it's not a user error... It's a software error. What gives? I cannot be the only one here.

Me too!

So Much confusion from all your (used to be) "loyal" subscribers . When I searched "Adobe what is the difference between XXXXXX and XXXXXXX" there were thousands of search results from confused users . As far as I can see your products are way too counter intuitive and difficult causing people to drop Adobe products from their PC's . You have defaulted all your products to : 1/ gather our usage stats , 2/ send interminable notifications , 3/ auto update , and a myriad other defaults that all cost us data , reduce our privacy , and the 'defaults' all benefit YOUR BOTTOM LINE in some way and "COST" us in some way . All the interfaces ; (in order for the users to change the "defaults" to aid our privacy and security) , are impossible to use and counter intuitive as is exemplified by the forums and the thousands of search results when you enter "Adobe what is the difference between ............" . When I'm on an Adobe page trying to sort through your excruciating products , all the interfaces have a 30 second click delay . The whole Adobe experience has descended into a time wasting costly and counter intuitive corporatized nightmare from a once great line of products . WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OUR ONCE MUCH LOVED ADOBE ? You have ruined it and I , like many others apparently , am done with Adobe for now and I will be watching for when Adobe returns to what it used to be :- a great suite of products that were fast , intuitive , productive and simple to use . Adobe presently , is so far off the mark that it is a no brainer that you will have to overhaul the whole thing and it is only a matter of time . 

You are spot on, my friend. Adobe has finally succeeded in making me go back to Apple Preview for my pfd needs. Dolts!

Main Points on Acrobat/Reader DC:

Installed and deinstalled it today. It is not usable in the form provided. I do not want or will not use an unproductive tablet for my use of Acrobat. If tablet type interfaces are introduced, a company such as Adobe with key history in font and graphics scaling should be able to provide alternatives. Even a Mac or Windows interface can scale app icons, Adobe now cannot? And no, I do NOT want to unset that checkmark about staying logged in in this forum every time I hit that page!

Let me explain a few background items, so that my opinion about DC may be weighted appropriately.

I tried to manipulate the "Tools" display in DC with no luck as some people already pointed out. What irks me about these usability issues is that "font scaling" is one of the key features introduced by Adobe, but that is no longer possible on these menus. My history of using Adobe dates back to longer than "Display Postscript" on NeXT boxes, where great antialiasing made scalable fonts on a 2-bit display do great work, that was over 25 years ago and I have since programmed a lot of stuff myself.

After going through endless updates on many programs I use, I am not opposed to learn new useful features, but I am really opposed to get less for paying more and having my user content hostaged in a PDF only cloud with inferior software functionality. Digital editions was similar, even acknowledged as beta software, but forced on users. My experience has unfortunately been that the addressing of issues and robust software functionality is not one of the greatest accomplishments at Adobe after Macromedia came on board. Steve Jobs was rightfully bashing some of the bugs in Flash.

P.S.: To reply here, I had to "reactivate" my Adobe ID. It then had me supply my birthdate (to know that I am over 13 and could get into a binding contract and then spelled out pages of software legalese for:

Acrobat.com
Business Catalyst
Adobe Translation Center
CS6 Software

Adobe Content Server 4
Digital Publishing Suite
PhoneGap Build
CC 2013 Software

Behance

EchoSign
Typekit

This appears legally questionable, as most people would not even know what these software pieces do or are good for, so how can they agree to download, etc., do whatever with them, just to post on this forum? I could ask in the same vein about details of the database software and middleware used to keep my data, including all the state machines how my data are moved around. That is not disclosed, so I cannot validate that the safe harbor agreement is actually followed... Wait, that may take months to read ...

Innovative would be a binding contract, that states that Adobe:

a) will provide some transparency about user needs gathered and how their software addresses those. There appear just gaps in the requirements gathering cycle.

b) tries to debug its software and documents that (TeX or Google have examples how compensation for bugs works)

As a non-profit with an cloud account -I have to pay more to do things I could before? I want the old version back and get rid of this DC. Tell me how, please.

Yeah this is literally the worst software update I've seen in the past 20 years - I agree that this product no longer has any use.

Instead of a 'new' or 'better' version, they've simply given a budget front-end face lift and ruined the functionality of the interface.

Regards,

I am having a similar problem. I do not like the new interface (and not just because it is new - there are things that used to take me one or two clicks that now take 3, it is highly annoying). But the worst problem is that I use NY State forms often (e.g., RP-5217, which is a fillable form provided online by NY State), which has a bar code, and all of a sudden after "upgrading" to Acrobat Pro DC on one computer and Reader DC on the other, the forms are not usable. On one, it says I need a "later version of Reader" to open the form. On the other, the form opens but the bar code is missing. The state will not accept the form for filing without the bar code. HELP!?!

PS I also downloaded Reader 11, and I am still not able to download the PDF fillable form. It says I need a later version of Reader.

This is ridiculous. Things I have been doing for years with Acrobat (I have the PRO version), I can't do at all now, with Pro DC or Reader DC or Reader 11.

I also don't like this:

Adobe Reader Acrobat DC

I downloaded Adobe Reader 11 for my laptop.