Adobe Acrobat Reader Pros And Cons
Lorean Hoefert
what on earth is going on with this new update of Adobe Acrobat Pro that normally it's supposed to be more user friendly - news flash, it's not - and appart from this, there is this new awful feature that blocks the app whenever I try to handle documents, the app blocks, I can't close, I can't do anything, it just freezes. The only thing that gets me out of there is task manager, and then starting over again.
We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change, however we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you are able to be more productive & get more out of Acrobat. With the new interface, we aim to:
It was a trauma experience. everything is changed. NO more user friendly but thank god you have provided the previous verison otehrwise I will thinking what could be the substitute ...and then I will thning to use pirated old versions. Please please never force us to use your such new acrobat. it is just a horror
I agree and the rest of my office also agrees that the new Adobe rollout is a disaster!! I wonder if the people that create this stuff actually work in Adobe? For those of us that use Adobe a lot, your new update is awful and not at all user friendly and more clicks to get anything done. You also took out the "save as local" for those of us that use icloud based management systems, we must have the "save as local". The majority of us like having the tools show up on the right. Please do not make this a final update that everyone will have to use. My office will be using another program if this happens.
Yes - a change to another program is imminent. It is unbeleivably frustrating to have such an incredible disruption for the worst. Disruption is usally for the better right? Wondering what program will disrupt the defunct Adobe into a usable program. I have used Adobe programs since the late 80's, yep i was an early adaptor, and have been loyal since--that has now changed, almost irreversibly.
It is beyond frustrating to do YOUR WORK as well. You update smth, fine, I am not an IT person, I want to click a button and that update to occur, I do not have time to check if my previous Adobe was 1234350i064680 and is Adobe 34utoy35w6 I couldn;t care less, I pay a subscription that now is making me lose time ergo money because as we speak for more than an hour I am trying to update a pdf with Adobe Acrobat reader pro, which again, it was taking me less than 3mins and now I constantly need to have this annoying useless pop up saying that Adobe is encountering trouble shooting issues or w/e and it;s closing my work, and need to start again... come on
Just for quick workaround, in case you are stuck on onboarding again, we have implemeted Escape onboarding functionality which you can get away by pressing 'Esc' key. Additionally you can quit the app and relaunch acrobat.
To add to the conversation, I am using Windows 10 and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I could not find the version for a VERY long time, because in the middle of the workday, Acrobat suddenly changed appearance, removed all my toolbars and preferences, and I could not even find the Help > About Acrobat menu to find the version. I finally did, and it's ... well, impossible to copy/paste, memorize, or even keep open while I'm typing. I'll put a screenshot. Hopefully it will persist.
The new display is flipped right to left (tools on left, pages on right), offers ONLY vertical toolbars as far as I can tell, and has removed ALL of my carefully prepared settings. I now would have had to completely relearn the software before I can complete a project...that's due in an hour. NOT GOOD. There was no warning, I did not initiate an update, reboot or turn off my computer. This is a BIG change. I am very, very grateful for the "disable new Acrobat" button, and I hope that I can keep it forever. I have to assume that it will eventually not be available, but I will use it as long as I can. In the meantime, all of my toolbars have been deleted and I still have to completely remake my interface. That is an expensive loss of professional time. Boo.
I was in the middle of presenting a tgree dau training session and this pulled the rug out from under me. No warning, no advanced training. Just in the middle of the day it changed to this mess while necand my students tried to figure out how to move forward. It was very inconciderate of adobe.
Just do the world a favor and trash the revision we never asked for! Why did you move the bookmarks to the right? It's difficult to find and use any tools. Did you send s communication out to all users that pay your heafty annual subscription on how to relearn your nw software ? Please send it to me!
I am having an issue when viewing PDFs on a monitor using the 'DWG to PDF' plot type on 2018 Civil 3D. It creates a PDF that when viewed at 100% zoom (using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on a standard widescreen monitor), the line-weights are not shown correctly. Two lines that are exactly alike can appear lighter or darker for no reason and you have to zoom in fairly close to see them correctly. Note that this only applies to viewing a digital version, as the PDF appears to print perfectly. This is a potential problem as people are moving to save more paper and would rather review a digital copy of a plan set. By the way, I am specifically talking about 11x17s as this size can be viewed at 100% on most monitors.
I have already tried adjusting the settings in adobe however this just gives sub-par results, not to mention anyone else viewing it would have to do the same. I have also tried plotting using 'Microsoft to PDF' (seems to "flatten" the PDF) which does actually make it view-able at any zoom, however I am not sure if there are any cons to using this plot type. I have always been taught to plot to PDFs rather than to the printer, but really I am unsure of any pros/cons of the different plot types.
This is a well-known problem at this point. The problem isn't in one product or the other, but the combination of the two. Using the DWG to PDF PC3 and another reader (say, Bluebeam) shows correctly. Using a different PC3 (again, say Bluebeam) and Adobe Reader shows correctly.
some of it might just be resolution, placement and the angle of the lines. I know on my machine a dead horizontal line will read differently than an angled line just because it crosses the pixels in my monitor differently. Similarly two parallel dead horizontal lines can read differently because they will fall across the pixels of your monitor differently, one could be perfectly in line and only require one row of pixels to generate, while the other has to straddle two rows, which makes it appear twice as thick. causes some curve/line tangencies to appear to be disconnected until you zoom in as well. basically the PDF reader 'knows' what is in the file and will attempt to represent it on screen no matter what the zoom level is, which means that below a certain lineweight everything appears the same width because you've bottomed out at one pixel, the PDF will not ignore the data, but it cannot split the pixel in half. dot hatches are the worst for this because it wants to generate ALL of the dots regardless of the zoom level, so zoomed in its all nice and sandy, zoomed out it looks like a giant black sponge.
I can't be the only person who imagined the office of the future, free from the confines of the eight and a half by eleven sheet (or A4, for my international friends), would have long since arrived. Instead, we've managed to land in an intermediate state of not paperless, but less paper.
Between a trusty scanner, email and various other communication tools, and getting really good at organizing my digital archives, I'm not totally unhappy with where we are today. And I do occasionally admit to reading a paper book, sending a postcard, or (gasp) printing something off to give to someone else.
Until the world moves a little further from paper, print-ready file formats will continue to permeate our digital landscape as well. And, love it or hate it, PDF, the "portable document format," seems to be the go-to format for creating and sharing print-ready files, as well as archiving files that originated as print.
For years, the only name in the game for working with PDF documents was Adobe Acrobat, whether in the form of their free reader edition or one of their paid editions for PDF creation and editing. But today, there are numerous open source PDF applications which have chipped away at this market dominance. And for Linux users like me, a proprietary application that only runs on Windows or Mac isn't an option anyway.
Since PDF files are used in so many different situations for so many different kinds of purposes, you may need to shop around to find the open source alternative to Adobe Acrobat that meets your exact needs. Here are some tools I enjoy.
For reading PDFs, these days many people get by without having to use an external application at all. Both Firefox and Chromium, the open source version of Google's Chrome browser, come bundled with in-browser PDF readers, so an external plugin is no longer necessary for most users.
For downloaded files, users of GNOME-based Linux distributions have Evince (or Atril on the GNOME 2 fork, MATE), a powerful PDF reader that handles most documents quickly and with ease. Evince has a Windows port as well, although Windows users may also want to check out the GPLv3-licensed SumatraPDF as an alternative. KDE's Okular serves as the PDF reader for the Plasma Desktop. All of these have the ability to complete PDF forms, view and make comments, search for text, select text, and so on.
Personally, LibreOffice's export functionality ends up being the source of 95% of the PDFs I create that weren't built for me by a web application. Scribus, Inkscape, and GIMP all support native PDF export, too, so no matter what kind of document you need to make -- a complex layout, formatted text, vector or raster image, or some combination -- there's an open source application that meets your needs.
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