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May 7, 2023 6:26 PM UTC
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Unable to find snapshot tool in Acrobat Reader 2023

Acrobat Reader 2023 changed menu layouts and snapshot tool cannot be found. Find tool in top right says "Find text or tools" but it cannot find snapshot tool. Any ideas how to take snapshot in Acrobat Reader 2023?

    ZenduCorrect answer
    Participant
    May 7, 2023 6:30 PM UTC

    Snapshot has been moved to unified File menu -> Undo, Redo & More -> Take a snapshot.

     

    Such a radical change in UI should have been accompanied by documentation update. But the documentation still refers to old ways.

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    Participant
    Sep 28, 2023 12:23 PM UTC

    Thanks so much for that! But where is the support? You press Help, you get instructions for an old interface. This is basic stuff - we were getting it right in 90s when I used to write help! How can Adobe be so useless?

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    Participant
    Aug 24, 2023 9:21 AM UTC

    I am using the search tool to use snap. Very very inconvenient.

     

    https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47171260-take-a-snap

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    Participant
    Sep 20, 2023 3:03 PM UTC

    see above.  It's under the main menu, top left, then see Undo, Redo and More.  It is hidden in there

     

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    Participant
    Aug 21, 2023 5:11 PM UTC

    Why would they choose to hide one of its most widely used features in an Undo, Redo & More submenu?... This is crazy...

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    Participant
    Jan 24, 2024 9:21 PM UTC

    Main triple bar dropdown .... Disable New Adobe 
    Gets us back to the Toolbar (with the TAKE SNAPSHOT feature). 
    That's my workaround... for now. 
    Not sure how to revert to begin using the New version again, but not in a hurry.

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    Participant
    Jan 25, 2024 12:40 AM UTC

    From Adobe Acrobat Pro (64-bit) old version
    To return to using the New version:  View dropdown | Enable New Version
    May be awhile until I do so.  Just an FYI for others.

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    Participant
    Aug 7, 2023 8:37 PM UTC

    you sacks of crap at Adobe

     

    You make it impossible and frig us around to try to get us to start free trials by hiding averything useful.....

    Just wated time here when my non edit version could extract text and take a snapshot which is all i need...

     

    a search within the pdf inside Adobe  is USELESS doent even reckognize word snapshot

     

    peice of poo...had to sign in even to comment 

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    Participant
    Nov 2, 2023 1:25 PM UTC

    There's a new feature under Menu>View>Disable New Acrobat that I find particularly useful.  Restart Acrobat then right click on your toolbar (Just to the left of the Page Up and Page Down arrows) and under Show Edit Tools check "Take a Snapshot".  This will put it back where it belongs.  I was going to show screenshots, but once New Acrobat is disabled, it seems the option to enable it is gone on mine.  Perhaps this was due to the Acrobat team's insight that no one would ever want to go back to that crap....

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    Thabsheer342825124gn5
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    Dec 15, 2023 10:57 AM UTC

    Actually you can enable it back from View -> Enable new Acrobat Reader. I am not sure why you want to use that crappy UI though.

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    ZenduAuthorCorrect answer
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    May 7, 2023 6:30 PM UTC

    Snapshot has been moved to unified File menu -> Undo, Redo & More -> Take a snapshot.

     

    Such a radical change in UI should have been accompanied by documentation update. But the documentation still refers to old ways.

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    Participant
    May 9, 2023 1:42 PM UTC

    How can the snapshot tool be docked so that it is easily accessable?

     

    Please help,

     

    mike

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    Participant
    May 30, 2023 6:42 AM UTC

    Agreed ... I need this tool docked

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