Comments Yesterday, I received a note via email from a consultant who asked:
Why did Adobe eliminate the Previous Page and Next Page buttons from Acrobat X?
Acrobat X (and earlier versions) only display a default set of page navigation tools:
Adding in other Tools
It’s easy to add in all of Acrobat’s page navigation tools and— once you do— they stay that way.
Here’s how:
- Right-click on the Page Navigation section of the toolbar
- Choose the Page Navigation menu item
- Choose Show All Page Navigation Tools
Here’s the result after making this change:
Try Customizing other Toolbars
Try right-clicking on the toolbar and exploring other options to add to the main toolbar.
Here are the ones I normally add:
- Select & Zoom> Marquee Zoom Tool
- Edit> Take Snapshot
- Edit> Advanced Search
- Page Display> Single Page View
Great post for a frequently-asked question.
It’s bothersome to me though that in the dropdown menu where you’d choose tools, Acrobat doesn’t show checkmarks next to the tools that are currently showing, or dim them, or provide any other sort of visual feedback. So it’s not clear, for example, that when a tool has been added to the toolbar, right-clicking and selecting that tool again from the dropdown menu will remove it from the toolbar but leave the other ones you added alone. Many people just choose Reset Toolbars and begin again from scratch.
I would also like to see an actual Find field added to the toolbar when you choose the Edit > Find tool to customize the toolbar, rather than the magnifying glass icon — which I associate with the Zoom tool, not Find.
One thing I do love in Acrobat X is how you can drag/drop tools from the Tools panel right to the QuickTools toolbar. The first one I added was the Typewriter Tool oh sorry I mean the Add/Edit Text Tool.
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Noted!
Why can’t I put the ‘Take a Snapshot’ tool onto the toolbar. I updated to Acrobat X with Windows Vista and now I can only use the Snapshot tool via the Edit menu.
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Right-click anywhere in the lowest toolbar (has the page navigation tools). Select Edit>Take Snapshot
I understand I can select the toolbar buttons that I need but how about rearranging them? I don’t need 2 rows of toolbar. I only need 1 row so that I have more viewing space for my document. How do I do it?
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Sorry, not possible.
I can’t get the TAKE SNAPSHOT icon to appear on the toolbar.
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Right-click anywhere in the lowest toolbar (has the page navigation tools). Select Edit>Take Snapshot
Can you do an upated post on converting Depo transcripts into pdf while maintaining pagination? The old article is not compatible with Adobe X.
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The process is the same. Just choose File>Create PDF from Web Page, then click the Settings button and change as the article indicates.
Hmm. When I do that, the pagination is still screwy. Any tips?
Also, when I try to sanitize PDFA1-b documents, it says it cannot be sanitized because of errors during the sanitation process. What am I doing wrong?
I hate to be annoying and write yet another comment, but every time I have tried to save an existing pdf as a pdf/a (through printing or save as) it fails. When I try to do it through pre-flight, it says “Unable to save the PDF File after post processing.” Additionally, creating a pdf/a file from the native has been resulting in a very large file size, which is a problem because I cannot optimize pdf/as. What am I doing wrong? Any tips?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Sounds like you are using a font that has a do not embed flag. Use Preflight to determine what is causing the document to fail. Could also be a corrupt font.
We currently have a bug with Sanitize on this issue which will be fixed in a future dot release.
I want to put the tools First Page and Last Page on the toolbar, but in Page Navigation there are no checkmarks or room for them beside any option and there is no option, “Show All Page Navigation Tools”. I am using Reader 10.0.1.
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They are there in Reader X. You need to right-click on the page navigation toolbar to change the setting, not the View menu.
Why can’t the toolbars be re-organized/moved anymore?
E.g. placing the page navigation toolbar at the bottom of the screen (like in earlier versions).
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Short answer . . . because there really aren’t toolbars anymore. I have heard from a handful of customers that like to have page nav at the bottom of the screen.
recent update- 4/22/11- undid all my selected tools, and now i cannot get any to show other than the default set. WTF?
the rotate buttons used to be on the toolbar. can I get them there again?
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The rotate tool is still on the toolbar in Acrobat X.
I just received a new computer and I can’t figure out how to get the rotate button back that allows you to just click and and it rotates once. Now I have the button that brings up the rotate screen (an extra step). Does anyone know what I am talking about?
Do you want to rotate the view or the page? If you only want to rotate the view (which doesn’t actually change the file), it is easy. Right-click on the second row of tools (the common tools), then choose Rotate View> Show all Rotate View Tools
Can I remove the “Comment” and “Share” tools from the toolbar? They’re not as necessary as almost any other tool.
No, you cannot remove those panels.
Now you’ve compounded the problem with the addition of the “Sign” tool. Along with the “View file in Read Mode” tool, the “Tools,” “Sign,” and “Comment” tools are rarely used by me and anyone I’ve asked. These items are all available under the View menu and removing them from the toolbar would release valuable toolbar space. Even more frustrating, when the window width is reduced these undesirable items are retained, and desirable toolbar items are relegated to a drop-down menu. If someone finds them useful they could still decide to display them on the toolbar. Alternatively, less voluminous icons would be a first concession. Why has the selectivity of the items mentioned above not been permitted? Your software designers SERIOUSLY need a course in user interface guidelines.
When designing the User Experience, we wanted to take into account that most users are using widescreen monitors. When you narrow the window width, having icons slip into third and fourth rows as it did previously obscured the document itself. I’d suggest removing the icons you don’t use from the toolbar (right-click on the toolbar then explore the different areas to see what you do and don’t like). On my widescreen monitor, I can very comfortably see two documents at a time with all the icons I want. My monitor resolution is 1680 X 1050.
I’m not using a widescreen monitor, I’m using three 4:3 monitors. Many people still do, and I’d guess it is a significant number of people. More importantly, I prefer to have my pdf windows taking much less than the width of my monitor, and I’m frustrated by 3 rarely/never used buttons taking up half of the toolbar where useful buttons are. Consider this in your User Experience – many users will be referring to the information in the pdf document while actually working on another document. In that case, the pdf is not the primary document and needs to be usable in a smaller format.
Most people do not use 4:3 monitors anymore. You are an exception and don’t know it. See: http://gs.statcounter.com/press/screen-resolution-alert-for-web-developers
When designing a user experience you should you should make it one that does not make the user want to find the programmers and beat them to death. No one useless the “tools” “sign” “comment” garbage buttons on the toolbar they just waste space (kind of like your programmers). I should not have to hack the program to get something that is not aggravating to use. Every version make me use Foxit reader a little more.
So, when the program opens it should magically know what you want? The reason the toolbars are there is that we measure which tools people use and put the most frequently used tools at the top. I’m not indicting how you use the tool, but that doesn’t mean your use case is the same as everyone else’s. From a purely selfish standpoint, we spend millions of dollars on Adobe Reader and it is free. There are buttons there that help us monetize the product so we can keep it free.
My laptop monitor resolution is 1280 x 800, and I have to have other apps open and viewable in order to work efficiently without switching backwards and forwards between apps, trying to remember what was on each one. Therefore I cannot run RDRX in full screen.
I also have to zoom in and out A LOT on PDF documents to see detail, rotate drawings, go backwards and forwards through documents etc.
Having the “Sign”, “Comment” and “View file in Read Mode”, ALL of which are rarely (if ever – NEVER by me) used compared to the zoom, navigate, and search functions I need to use many times a minute, locked in place, is, as Greg said, really, REALLY poor.
Please do not try to excuse this as a “designed” UX – this is nothing more than promoting a “feature” Adobe like, at the expense of *actual* UX.
Just add the tools you need to the Quick Tools bar so you never have to open the panels.
Just out of curiousity did you come up with the statement “most users are using widescreen monitors” quantitatively or qualitatively?
You can find this data online at a variety of sources. The average screen display today is widescreen at 1366X 768 (http://gs.statcounter.com/press/screen-resolution-alert-for-web-developers), wider than tall. 85% of all web visitors browse at higher resolutions than 1024 X 768. (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp)
I have to agree with greg. this new design is absolutely awful. i think i’ll have to switch to foxit as well. theres no need for share tool and i should have the ability to remove the ones i dont want on the toolbar — UI101!
As I’ve said repeatedly, you can remove almost every icon from our toolbar. Right-click on the Toolbar and choose the Category (e.g. File) then mouse over an uncheck the ones you don’t want. Unfortunately, you just can’t right-click on a any button other than a quick tool to remove it directly.
I’m using a 3.5″ screen as a pilot in an airplane (where else?). The Tools-Sign-Comment icons are REALLY in the way of what I need! We need them selectable!
We did not design the product to operate on screens that small. On that size screen, you should use something like the mobile Reader which is designed for small screens.
How do you access Tools / Comment / Share on the right handside of Adobe X using keyboard shortcuts.
Previous versions allowed you to access these by pressing Alt and flicking across as they were next to File, Edit, View etc.
A keyboard shortcut to Quick Tools would be just as helpful
Thanks
Due to the changes in the user interface, that’s not possible anymore because the menus referred to by the keyboard shortcuts don’t exists anymore. You can find a list of keyboard commands for Acrobat X here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7aed.w.html .
The previous versions had the Save As on the Quick Tool toolbar… How do I get add that to the current X version?
That isn’t available in Acrobat X, sorry. We have it on our feature wishlist.
Looking forward to have Save As in Quick Tool toolbar. Should be a relatively easy change in the program, but is a very useful feature, if not essential feature, for users like myself.
Can I add the drawing markups to the toolbar?
Yes!
One thing is very clear from the posts above and my first experience with Acrobat X. It is not user-friendly. A handful of people design the upgrade to their needs and the rest of the world has to learn the new (but not necessarily better) way before we can get on with our tasks. Ever hear “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.”? How about “KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid.” Everyone’s trying to build a better mousetrap and so far, few if any catch more mice. I used to have my snapshot tool in hand. Now I have to go get my toolbox first.
Here’s a radical thought. What if Acrobat had a button in the view menu called “tools” where every available tool shows up in one drop-down menu. Then the user selects/deselects the desired tools for his or her toolbar, clicks okay, and sees only those icons on the toolbar, with the option for click-and-drag rearranging. And, have those settings remain in place even after a software upgrade. What’s wrong with that? Too simple? I for one don’t need your interface designers’ cleverness getting in my way. I’m busy and I don’t need excess baggage weighing me down.
As fantastic as computers are, everyone I know howls with frustration from software upgrades of one type or another. From Microsoft Office to Google Instant to Acrobat X, you’ve all done a fantastic job of keeping yourselves employed by keeping us guessing. I would need three lifetimes just to learn all the features of my security software alone. Only problem is, once I learn it I’ll need three more lifetimes to learn the upgrade
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Acrobat X has a very different interface and getting adjusted to it can take some time. You can click the Gear in the QuickTools bar to see every tool that is available in the program. Add what you want to the QuickTools bar, then you won’t have to open the panels on the right. That said, the overwhelming majority of folks who I have interfaced with really like the interface in Acrobat X. If you are an occasional user of the product (which is the most typical usage, by the way), the new interface makes discovering the tools you need a lot easier.
Rick, how do you add drawing markups to the toolbar? I can’t see any way to do it. I specifically want to add the pencil tool to the toolbar at the top of the screen, for easy access.
Right-click on the tool and choose “Add to Quick Tools”. Simple!
Rick, how do you add drawing markups to the toolbar? I can’t see any way to do it. I specifically want to add the pencil tool to the toolbar at the top of the screen, for easy access.
Can I add the “Rotate Pages” feature to the toolbar?
It’s already on the Acrobat X toolbar by default.
Where is the Marquee Selection Tool in the new Acrobat X?
I think you mean the Marquee Zoom Tool. It’s not on by default. Right-click on the toolbar and choose Select and Zoo> Marquee Zoom to enable it.
Interfaces change, but my biggest beef is that everytime I use typewriter (or whatever it’s called now) the typewriter toolbar window opens, but it doesn’t let me set it to dock on the toolbar – so I have this thing floating around my desktop being a pain in the butt. Is there something I’m missing here?
Nope, you can’t dock the Typewriter toolbar. I heard you!
I hid the File, Edit, View, Help task bar. How do I get it back?
Hitting F9 toggles the menu bar.
it doesnt work for me, any solution?
This pertains to Acrobat X only.
I’ve tried over and over to get these tools to stick up at the top. But every time I open up another Adobe X document the tools aren’t up there. I have to go through and choose them one by one all over again. Is there a way to make them stick up there permanently. This article says it should stay on their own but it just doesn’t. This is the only computer I’ve had problems like this. Windows 7
I’m not sure why they are not sticking for you. That is the behavior for me. It could be that your IT group has locked down the Preference section of Acrobat which might prevent it. You might try re-installing.
I understand that I can customize the tool bars with what ever tools I use or want there. The problem is that I cannot get them to stay. Once I close Acrobat Pro X and restart it they disappear. Is there something I need to do?
If you set up your toolbars the way you want _before_ opening a document, then quit, they should stay the way you want.
How do I get the pencil tool. It doesn’t show that I have one and I dont have the gear icon.
It’s in the Comments Pane, Drawing Markups section
I scan files into Acrobat X all day at work, and I would like to make this: File > Create > PDF from Scanner > Grayscale document into either one keystroke, or a button on the main toolbar… how would I go about that!??
On Windows you can type ALT-F-R-S-G
Can the zoom tools be added to the Quick Tools?
Also, can the Tools and Comment bar be removed (under the Quick Tools)?
No, but you can add the Zoom tool the toolbar below. Right-click on the toolbar below the Quick Tools area and choose Select & Zoom> Marquee Zoom
I have a deposition transcript document, and I do not have the option of an advanced search using boolean connectors and proximity parameters. The “Find” menu does not provide that advanced search feature. Neither is there a toolbar that provides that option. When I try to customize the tool bar to add that function, the document does not have a page number for me to right click between. I need to be able to conduct boolean and proximity searches of this document, as well as other Adobe pdf documents. Can you help?
Acrobat doesn’t support many of the search options you mentioned. You can try Advanced Search (Edit Menu) which offers hit highlighting and word stemming.
Very helpful info here, but I tried following the directions in the main post steb by step and “show all page navigation tools{” is not an option. I did double check on another document and the tools are there, but it seems to be very hit and miss. Is this something beyond my control, as in, the document author can create/save it in such a way that I can’t get the toolbar to work. I hate the floating toolbar.
Individual PDFs can open in full screen mode and it sounds like you got a document sent to you with that option set. To change it, open the document, hit ESC, then choose File>Properties and go to the Initial View tab. Deselect open in full screen. If, instead, you are talking about opening PDFs in the browser, go to File>Preferences and choose the Internet section. Deselect Display in Read Mode by Default.
I am wondering whether there is a possible way to merge the TWO rows of tools into ONE, therefore, I have more space for reading? why do we need to two rows of tools?
Just use Reading Mode which gets rid of both rows of tools. Or, hit F8 to toggle the toolbars or F9 to toggle the menus.
Hi – I want all my tools to show…right now I only see two rows in the toolbar, the rest are all as drop down – can I have more than two rows?
If you are talking about the Quick Toolbar– where you can add the tools you want to the top– no. I think there are diminishing returns when you get over a dozen or so tools up there anyway.
I am having an issue with everytime I open Adobe X, I get 4 toolbars that are floating (Select & Zoom toolbar, File toolbar, Comment & Markup toolbar and Properties toolbar). How can I remove the floating toolbars?
That definitely should not be happening, in fact I don’t even know of a way to float those toolbars, I would recommend re-installing Acrobat.
Same frustration of other users above.
Just want to have the “properties bar” locked in the toolbar on top of the window, as it always been easily possible so far. It seems it can be kept floating around. Any suggestions?
Unfortunately, this is not possible in Acrobat X.
I can’t find the search tool, either on the toolbars or in any of the lists of tools, such as when you hit the gear. Who stole my binoculars and how can I get them back?
Right-click in the bottom toolbar and choose Navigation. Find is there and will be added to the toolbar.
Is there a way to have the Properties tool bar permanently attached to the toolbars on top? This was a feature in the older versions of Adobe, but I cannot find how this could be done in Adobe X. It’s quite annoying to have to go through 4 steps every time I want to change a font or color in markups I do on a daily basis in this program. Seems that being able to customize the toolbars to user preference would have been one of the top items on the list during the re-design.
Unfortunately, that isn’t possible. Once you leave the properties bar open, though, it will stay open.
Absolutely absurd, Adobe! To comment on .pdf documents, I want to use Adobe Acrobat. To have Adobe presume that I always want my comment boxes and text in red is fine, but to make me hunt down a floating toolbar and deny me the ability to customize my expensive software as I was able to do in prior versions is annoying.
How about we listen to users rather than software engineers or the trainers. Customization is not a bad thing. Please give us back this feature!
I get that you can’t dock the Properties bar, but all of the you certainly can change the properties of all items and set new defaults for them. If you want blue text and a squiggly outline, you can have that all the time.
I agree, the Save As option is a necessity…
Also what happened to the merge open files including the one you have currently selected? Our system opens PDF’s with the same designation so starting without having the current file selected is rather annoying!
Save As would be nice, I agree. The merge functionality is based on user requests to add the currently open file.
Suggestion for the next version: make it possible to have a floating redaction toolbar. I want all the screen real estate possible so that I can see more of the document, and I only want to use the “redact” tool, again and again. The double-row toolbar is a waste of space, and hiding and unhiding the toolbar for each redaction is a waste of keystrokes.
Why not right-click on the Mark for Redaction tool and choose Keep Tool Selected? Then, you can close the panel.
Mr. Bornstein answers are very appreciated, but more I use Adobe X, more I’ve got the feeling the update is a big fail. It’s more complex, frustrating and less user-friendly then any of the previous versions. For my daily work, mainly commenting mixed graphic/text large size architectural documents, I need in average two to three times more clicks for every single action then I did before.
Hope Adobe team will release an Adobe “Y” as soon as possible!!!
Make sure you add your frequently used Comment tools to the QuickTool menu.
What I would improve on Adobe Acrobat X
The ability to move the page navigation toolbar to the bottom of the screen (or anywhere else I want it)
The ability to arrange the menu icons to where I want them, not where Adobe has decided they should be permanently placed. (i.e. not in the top row – the ability to sort them is there, but that’s not what I want).
Having the same toolbars/menu icons appear when I have a form open (I think this relates to the disappearing commands others have mentioned above) – if you are editing a form, certain items disappear and the form must be saved, closed, and reopened. (At least I have not found another way.)
Having the Rotate button on the toolbar function the same as the Rotate button the Tool menu. When the Rotate buttons are added to the toolbar, they do not function in the same manner as using the rotate buttons/commands from the Tools menu on the right.. One is not asked if it applies to all pages (it only rotates the page you are on), and the rotation is not saved when the document is closed (and it does not ask you to save changes).
Make it so the floating toolbars that pop up can be added to the toolbar and/or more easily accessible. I had one pop up so high on the screen it was very difficult to close and it took some maneuvering to get to the top bar in order to drag it down and close it.
As I continue to work with the upgrade I am sure there will be more, but those are the most obvious.
Thanks. You’ll see a bunch of these changes in the future I hope.
I would like to re-locate the page navigation box(the go to page # box) from the top of the page to the bottom of my document. I was able to do this on a previous version but not Arcobat X Pro. I can not find any way to do that. Can you help?
Not possible since Acrobat 8.
Not getting this Adobe 10. Previous versions were set up on the Snapshot tool to print the selected snapshot and printed a good quality. Where is this option in the Adobe 10? This was a tool I used faithfully on a daily basis in my work.
The Snapshot tool is not on by default, but it is easy to add. Right-click on the Toolbar and choose Edit>Snapshot to add the Snapshot tool to your toolbar.
I just upgraded my 20-person office to Adobe X Pro and am getting complaints from multiple users. For several people, the Properties toolbar opens every time they open any PDF, and this is really annoying. I couldn’t tell from the comments above if this is supposed to happen or not. Is there a way to toggle this toolbar to open or not open?
If you mean the Properties Toolbar (CTRL-E) then that should not be happening. If you are using any custom javascripts that call the toolbar, you might want to check for that.
I “really need” a ‘save as pdf’ toolbar button as most pdf’s I get seem to be read-only (so I can’t “save” them but I can use “save as” . Any change over the last few months on this particular point? Thanks.
We are considering this feature for future versions of Acrobat.
Why is the “Save” icon disabled in the ToolBar and File menu? Where is the “Save As” Icon? Very annoying that I can’t click an Icon to save a file created by a virtual PDF printer. It was available in vs 9.0
The Save icon is there (looks like a Floppy disk, same as in previous versions). There is no Save As button, but we have heard your feedback and this could change in the future.
I just stumbled upon this web page because I have been trying to google how I can put “find” on top. Sort of like in windows 7 when you click on “my computer”. You don’t have to do “edit” and then “find”. You can just type in whatever you’re looking for in the upper right corner. I realize I can click on edit and then find. I also know that I can click on the magnifying glass.
Also, I do not associate a magnifying glass with “find”. Is the average person supposed to associate a magnifying glass with “find”? I’d like to think that I am the average person. I do not associate a magnifying glass with “find”. Not one bit. I associate it with magnifying things. Am I crazy?
I am in medical school and the PDF document we need to know for every 3 week exam is never less than 2000 pages. In the last few days right before the exam when you’re done studying and you’re just trying to wrap things up, it gets annoying to hit that magnifying glass 500 times a day or so. No exaggeration – at least 500 times a day.
I know I am not the only medical student frustrated by this. You should have seen the medical students waiting in line at our bookstore when acrobat X came out. We couldn’t wait to see what kind of new features were there. A lot of people were disappointed when they realized they couldn’t put the “find” option on top permanently. I know this sounds pretty stupid to the average user, but for people like us, it means a lot.
Not sure if anyone will read this, or if this is the kind of forum for something like this. But, I am going to cross my fingers and click on “post”.
Just Type CTRL-F, that is the keyboard shortcut for Find. CMD-F on the Mac. Hitting that keyboard command will open the Find field and insert the cursor in the field. You might also try full search. CTRL-SHIFT-F (CMD-SHIFT-F on the Mac.) Which allows you to search on a lot more terms.
I don’t seem able to move any of the tool bars to the lower part of the window. I find the page navigation to be awkward at the top and would like it at the bottom of the window along wit hthe page count. In Pro 8 I was able to drag the bar where I wanted it.
Unfortunately, you can’t move the page navigation toolbar to the bottom of the Window in Acrobat 9 or X.
I wish you would allow us to disable the Tools | Sign | Comment menu bar items. I don’t use them, and they take up a lot of space. Your earlier comment on wide screen monitors is appreciated, but I use a tablet at work in portrait mode, and screen space is at a premium. I use the magnify and rotate tools constantly, and it is slow getting them from the drop down menu.
Thanks!
Add the tools you need to the Quick Tools menu!
In Acrobat X Pro, whenever I make a change to a document, I can no longer just save the changes to the original file. Instead, I get a message that says: “This document could not be saved. Cannot write to this file. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder”.
This causes me to have multiple, numerous files and versions of files, gobbling up space and time! Is there a preference I can change so I can just SAVE like I was able to do with 9 Pro?
When you open a PDF from a temp folder — like from email — you will receive the message. The behavior is the same as in A9. CTRL-Shift-S is Save As.
1. Rick makes a comment that it is easier for new users. So have a new user mode. I don’t really care about the novice. What about the people who use it every day and are slowed down by the update?
2. I use Find all the time, and I prefer it on the toolbar. I tend to use visual clues, not keyboard shortcuts. Find is why we use PDF instead of paper, because we can find things by searching.
3. I also use snapshot and can’t understand why it has moved off the toolbar in favor of things like signature.
4. It could be worse. thanks for not going to the tabbed ribbon microsoft uses. Menus for everything, toolbars for the things we use the most, and keyboard shortcuts if we like using them. Software should be functional, but we feel like it’s becoming like the fashion industry–wide ties are in, then narrow ties are in. Spare me. It is finally getting to the point where we dread “upgrades” because they only slow us down.
I just added a post about customizing the common toolbars. See http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2012/03/customizing-acrobat-x-common-tools/
You mention New User mode. Acrobat essentially ships in New User Mode for lack of a better term. Advanced users will want to customize the interface. Since every person and industry is different, YOU need to do that in a way that fits your requirements.
Please see the post above by James (10:43 AM on November 29, 2011) about not being able to dock the comment properties toolbar to the main toolbar. Please give us back the ability to customize this important feature.
It’s not like I can wave a magic wand and make that happen! You will see some changes in the future I hope.
Is it possible in Acrobat X Pro to assign a different key as Hot key to any of the menu items?
e.g, for copy instead of Ctl+C I want to assign F3. Is it possible?
Sorry, I don’t think that is possible.
Has the option to add and remove single tools been taken away? I see only adding or removing sets of tools, such as the Edit tools, but all I want on the tool bar is the Find and Advanced Find. When I add all the tools I want on the tool bar many are now in the overflow and have to be accessed by additional mouse clicks. Is this the case? Or is there a way to select a specific tool and ignore the others in a tool set?
Ops – this is for the Mac version of Acrobat X Pro.
Same process.
You can remove any individual tool as explained in the post. Simply turn off the tools you don’t want via the menu option.
Please please please – get the developers busy returning the Save As button – and please please please make it available in Adobe 9 as well as Adobe X
I agree. It’s on our list.
I’m with John, Mike and others: Get rid of the Tools, Sign and Comment buttons. Put Find back on the tool bar, not obscuring the document. Make it so you can have whatever tools you want on the tool bar – menu items for everything else.
I don’t share PDFs with others – I just read them. I need Find and zoom, and easy viewing. Everything else is extra. I NEVER view PDF’s full screen, there are always multiple other applications open, so let me make the decisions on what is used or not.
Thanks!
Customize the toolbars the way you want. The fact that Acrobat doesn’t have the tools you want out of the box doesn’t mean they aren’t there, you just need to put them on the toolbar. See this article: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2012/03/customizing-acrobat-x-common-tools/
Rick,
I see your answer seems to be “customize the toolbars the way you want” and you seem to not be realizing that the issue is not so much that people want different options, but rather we DO NOT WANT the “tools/sign/comment” area there and yet we cannot remove it. We can customize everything else just fine, that isn’t the issue… it’s this one screen that’s really large that you are not able to customize and are stuck with that is the issue.
Also, just FYI, your comments here of doing research and whatnot make you sound like an ass. If people here are posting saying they don’t want something on their screen, they obviously don’t care about why it was put there, they care about what is going to be done to fix said issue.
Now, I humbly request that you guys at Adobe fix the major issue here and stop trying to justify crap that people don’t want.
I understand the issue and I appreciate you sharing your opinion. We certainly do understand that the new UI is a big change and some people don’t like it. We will be working on streamlining the UI in the next version of Acrobat.
They need a way to put ACTIONS in the toolbar
Yes, I agree. We’re looking into a good way to do this. At present, you can only put Edit Actions there which will present a list you can pick from and then run.
I do not have two rows of tools (Adobe Reader X 10.1.3). I lack the hand tool and cannot find a menu item that allows me to add it. Display all tools is grayed out. When I selected highlight and then add text, hand tool disappeared. Escape does not bring it back. Please help. Thank you.
Try opening a document, then customizing the tools.