I have not been very impressed with the interface changes with Acrobat. I don't mind that they have adopted a new accordion style interface so much (Although the do seem to be reinventing the wheel with each release). What I do see as a major issue is that the desicion to go with a non native interface causes it to be very quirky, sluggish and unpredictable.
I do a LOT of annual reports. And I have always found the PDF markup to be invaluable for alterations. I used to be able to receive a PDF with 800+ comments and display them on the side and check them off one by one with ease! But now since the upgrade the commenting panel has caused me to be about half as productive.
* If I right hand click a comment to mark it as "completed" I have to move quite slowly and precicly over the contextual submens and sometimes click on "complete" multiple times. If I move over things too quickly the menu dissapears.
* I uesed to be able to filter completed comments as I go so that once I checked it, it dissapeard from the list making it easy to keep trak of what had been completed and what needed completing. Now to acheive this I have to force the filter to refresh by turning the filter of and on again each time I want to get rid of completed comments. This is a killer
* Scrolling through the comments in the comments pannel is the worst! Sometimes I might be just clickin on a comment and for no reason Acrobat X will srcoll up or down hiding your next comment. If you click on the scroll bar arrows I tend to find they have poor reponsivness and you will find yourself lost in the list very quickly. And dont even bother with your mouse scrolling wheel... it looks like it is trying to scroll but is working against natual forces.
Very dissapointed with this release. Adobe software should be like a workhorse, able to handle heavy loads... however these silly atsthetic choices seem to be lagging the most basic tools down.
I dont know... I am just feeling realy let down about this. This software is not cheap!
