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Because of the serious shortcomings of Acrobat 6 (which have been fixed with the patch only to a very limited extent) concerning my work, I may not have that many hours on Acrobat 6 as you do. But I have so far not seen much of intuitive and logical layout...
Your area, forms authoring, is definitely one where the changes are mixed...Set Tab Order missing in the initial release certainly raised noise (and enough to get it back in 6.0.1).
That was why I said "concerning my work" (which is "everything with forms"). And yes, the Tab Order issue is the little piece which got fixed in the patch, but there are more almost equally bad mess-ups which are not fixed).
But I find some of the other changes to be for the better - different tools for different item types, external JS editor for Mac OS, JS debugger(!)
Hmm... "different tools for different item types" ?? you mean the balkanization of the form tool? A sheer nightmare when doing maintenance... It is no longer possible to change the field type when needed (not even between the types with most commonalities (checkbox <-> radiobutton, combobox <-> listbox)...
Ah, yeah, the external JS editor for OSX ... unfortunately, I have not yet been able to get it work. Maybe I am too stupid for that...
I agreem with the debugger (but would not give it the exclamation mark ... there is a lot to improve with that one).
mm... I think that is a serious misconception. One can assume that Acrobat is a mature software which can not get that much more additional users.
And that's why you aren't in Adobe marketing & sales ;).
Figure that there are MILLIONS of people out there just using Reader, who could/would benefit from having a copy of Standard (or Pro) on their desk.
Sure, but the big majority of these people has no control over their desk... they are at the mercy of their IT types. And the ones who have the control over their desk will think twice to shell out some $700 for Acrobat Pro (that's the price in Europe)...
And also, I assume that new users have to be trained anyway.
True, but the less training the better (from the company stand-point, though maybe not that of trainers ;).
Ah, I see, that's why software must look and feel (and act) like MessyOffice ... I got it...
Therefore, one creates more economic damage by forcing existing users to relearn everything.
Not if once the change is learned, productivity increases. If it's a zero-gain change, then sure, it's not worth it, but I think most of the changes are positive ones - though there are ones that annoy me too. My biggest annoyance is the location of the "Page Actions" panel...
And here is the problem; I have so far not found much productivity increase for my work at the end of the day. The increases by the debugger are eaten away by the overall slowness and clumsiness of the user interface. Whenever I do something, I have to wait for the program to get ready...
And, again, if you have to work in a mixed environment (if you are serious about your products, you MUST test them under older versions), it is confusing and annoying.
Max Wyss PRODOK Engineering Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
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