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of which you may like and others you may not. I’ll explain more about the user interface in later chapters
where I discuss tools and viewing PDF documents. For now, let me share the reasons why Adobe has made
the current significant changes to Acrobat 8.
Adobe Systems is a company committed to user feedback and responding to user needs. Most often, we
find changes being made in Acrobat, and all of Adobe’s products, as the result of a demand by a significant
number of users. For instance, you might wonder why a great feature is removed from one version of the
product. The answer may simply be that a number of IT managers were struggling with a security loophole
caused by the feature.
The change in Acrobat’s user interface was made because of a large demand by enterprise users who want
Acrobat to appear similar to other programs used, such as the Office products and Web browsers. You may
not agree, but Adobe can only respond to the majority and the majority is asking for something similar to
the look and feel of the current release.
Such changes require all of us to become familiar with some new ways to move around a document and
become familiar with the way your documents appear in an Acrobat window. As you can see in Figure 1.1,
the Acrobat workplace has changed appearance. For those familiar with earlier versions of Acrobat, you’ll
notice some obvious changes in the user interface.
FIGURE 1.1
The new Acrobat 8 user interface
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