I would like to see the Acrobat team take a cue from distant cousinįlash ( ) and certain other Creative Suite apps by offering workspaces. Flash, for example, offers optimized workspaces for different types of users: Designers can easily access the controls and tools they use while keeping the programmer-centric features out of the way. You can easily customize the Quick Tools bar to include nearly any command available in Acrobat. By default, Quick Tools includes buttons for creating, opening, saving, sharing, and printing PDFs, adding sticky notes and highlights, and inserting, deleting, and rotating pages. The average Acrobat user probably won’t know how to customize which sections show in the Tools pane, and consequently will be left poking around to find many commands integral to their workflows.Īcrobat X Pro’s new user interface divides most-but not all-of the program’s commands among three new task panes.Ī new Quick Tools bar across the top of the Acrobat X window provides access to common commands. Both commands-and many more-can be added to the Tools task pane by clicking the tiny button at the top of that window and enabling the display of the Print Production and Accessibility panes. Some commands, like design mainstay Preflight, and the critical Accessibility Setup Assistant, now live only in the Edit menu-an unlikely place. On the other hand, not all commands are located within the three panes-at least, not without customizing the app, which many Acrobat users won’t do. And, Adobe has recognized that most of us now use widescreen monitors. On one hand, the task pane’s commands look more intuitive than the copious menus of previous versions.
That seems odd because I’d expect them to be in the Share pane. To send a PDF for either a shared or email review, you must remember that those commands are no longer in menus, but now in a section of the Comment task pane. In Acrobat X, the command is now in the Tools task pane, in the Pages section, under the Edit Page Design section’s Watermark menu.
Adding a watermark in a PDF used to mean choosing the Document -> Watermark -> Add… command. Instead of merely navigating through some 20 menus on the application bar and toolbars to find a particular function, as you did in Acrobat 9, you must now search through the application bar menus, the icon toolbars, and three sidebar-styled task panes loaded with vertically arrayed commands-nearly half of which are hidden by default. The first thing you’ll notice about Acrobat X Pro is, of course, its new user interface. Sadly, this streamlined interface is not an improvement.
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