Go to the hamburger menu View (macOS) > Enable new Acrobat.
- Acrobat User Guide
- Introduction to Acrobat
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Working with online storage accounts
- Acrobat and macOS
- Acrobat notifications
- Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
- Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
- Workspace basics
- Creating PDFs
- Editing PDFs
- Edit text in PDFs
- Edit images or objects in a PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Edit scanned PDFs
- Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
- Optimizing PDFs
- PDF properties and metadata
- Links and attachments in PDFs
- PDF layers
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
- PDFs converted to web pages
- Setting up PDFs for a presentation
- PDF articles
- Geospatial PDFs
- Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
- Change the default font for adding text
- Delete pages from a PDF
- Scan and OCR
- Forms
- PDF forms basics
- Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
- Create and distribute PDF forms
- Fill in PDF forms
- PDF form field properties
- Fill and sign PDF forms
- Setting action buttons in PDF forms
- Publishing interactive PDF web forms
- PDF form field basics
- PDF barcode form fields
- Collect and manage PDF form data
- About forms tracker
- PDF forms help
- Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
- Combining files
- Combine or merge files into single PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
- Crop PDF pages
- Add watermarks to PDFs
- Add backgrounds to PDFs
- Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
- Publish and share PDF Portfolios
- Overview of PDF Portfolios
- Create and customize PDF Portfolios
- Sharing, reviews, and commenting
- Share and track PDFs online
- Mark up text with edits
- Preparing for a PDF review
- Starting a PDF review
- Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
- Participating in a PDF review
- Add comments to PDFs
- Adding a stamp to a PDF
- Approval workflows
- Managing comments | view, reply, print
- Importing and exporting comments
- Tracking and managing PDF reviews
- Saving and exporting PDFs
- Security
- Enhanced security setting for PDFs
- Securing PDFs with passwords
- Manage Digital IDs
- Securing PDFs with certificates
- Opening secured PDFs
- Removing sensitive content from PDFs
- Setting up security policies for PDFs
- Choosing a security method for PDFs
- Security warnings when a PDF opens
- Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
- Protected View feature for PDFs
- Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
- JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
- Attachments as security risks
- Allow or block links in PDFs
- Electronic signatures
- Sign PDF documents
- Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
- Send documents for e-signatures
- Create a web form
- Request e-signatures in bulk
- Collect online payments
- Brand your account
- About certificate signatures
- Certificate-based signatures
- Validating digital signatures
- Adobe Approved Trust List
- Manage trusted identities
- Printing
- Accessibility, tags, and reflow
- Searching and indexing
- Multimedia and 3D models
- Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
- Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
- Displaying 3D models in PDFs
- Interacting with 3D models
- Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
- Setting 3D views in PDFs
- Enable 3D content in PDF
- Adding multimedia to PDFs
- Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
- Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
- Add comments to videos
- Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
- Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
- PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
- Preflight profiles
- Advanced preflight inspections
- Preflight reports
- Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
- Output intents in PDFs
- Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
- Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
- Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
- Additional checks in the Preflight tool
- Preflight libraries
- Preflight variables
- Color management
Adobe Acrobat now has a simplified interface to help you quickly discover tools and complete your PDF tasks efficiently. Compared to your current interface, the new version is more intuitive and fluid and provides consistent experiences across all devices -- desktop, mobile, and tablet.
Check out the new interface
The new interface is clutter-free to let you focus more on your document. The menu bar, toolbar, and panels are leaner with tools organized contextually, which lets you quickly find the required tools. The interface is highly flexible. You can choose to have your preferred set of tools in the toolbar.
Where are all my tools?
You can find the common Acrobat tools more easily and quickly in the new interface. Here's a list of components that include all your tools:
The document pane displays the PDF page in the center, at an optimal zoom level. While interacting with the content, you can access various context menus to quickly launch a tool to perform an action.
The hamburger menu (Windows® only) includes options for the most common tasks that users perform. On Windows®, it helps to combine all the options available under the existing File, Edit, and View menus. However, on macOS, the File, Edit, and View menus continue to appear separately.
The All tools panel is a container that allows you to access the entire set of Acrobat tools.
The top bar segregates PDF-related tools from the file actions including search, save, print, and share.
The quick tools panel includes tools, such as commenting, annotating, and filling out forms that users can quickly access. The panel is a floating widget that users can customize for specific workflow requirements.
The Search box allows you to search for content within the document and also find Acrobat tools.
The navigation pane Includes options that allow you to bookmark, view, navigate pages, and access zoom settings and viewing options.
You can customize the navigation pane to include your preferred settings.
If you're a Teams or Enterprise admin, you can contact Adobe Customer Care to get the new Acrobat enabled for your org. Alternatively, you can set the bEnableAV2Enterprise registry key under FeatureLockDown (Lockable Settings) for Modern Viewer in the Acrobat Enterprise Toolkit (ETK) preference reference to enable the new Acrobat for you.
Enabling the new experience is easy. If you're on the current experience, perform the following to enable the new experience.
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Select Restart to launch the new experience.
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To return to your current experience, do one of the following:
- Windows®: Select the hamburger menu, and then choose Disable new Acrobat.
- macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.
Quick tools menu
The quick tools menu enables you to access the tools that you commonly use to accomplish PDF tasks. By default, the Select or Pan, Annotation, and Adobe Fill & Sign tools appear on the quick tools menu. You can customize the Quick Tools menu to add more tools.
Select or Pan tool
Use the Select or Pan tool to select objects or pan the document.
Annotation tools
Add annotations to your PDF like comment, text box, highlight, underline, strikethrough, or draw freeform by using the commenting tools on the menu.
Adobe Fill & Sign tools
Use the Adobe Fill & Sign tools on the menu to fill the form or add a signature.
Add more tools
Use the Options (…) menu to add more tools to the Quick Tools bar. In the Customize Quick Tools window, choose the tools you want to add and select Save.
To learn about productivity enhancement tools in Acrobat, see Explore Acrobat tools. You can also select the links in the table to learn more about other tools.
Turn off the new Acrobat experience
The new Acrobat experience is a step toward Acrobat's future. However, you can revert to the previous experience if it doesn't suit your needs.
Windows: Select the hamburger menu, and then choose Disable new Acrobat.
macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.
If you're an enterprise user, your admin can turn off new Acrobat by setting the bEnableAV2Enterprise registry key under FeatureLockDown (Lockable Settings) for Modern Viewer in the Acrobat Enterprise Toolkit (ETK) preference reference.