Chris French on Acrobat XI | Insights on Acrobat Solutions | Adobe TV

Chris French discusses some highlights we can look out for in Acrobat XI.
http://adobe.ly/Q3E9Cd

I think this version of Acrobat is the worst piece of garbage I've bought in the past three years. Acrobat 9 was a great program. Everything was easily accessible and intuitive. In this version nothing is easy to use or accessible and the Help functions stink. The people who managed the development of this version don't have a clue about what usability means and how to design something that mere mortals can use without being driven crazy. Various usability issues keep cropping up every time I try to do something with this program. Let me just say I use all kinds of complex software from Adobe and other vendors and I truly regret having spent over 200 dollars upgrading to this piece of junk. It's very obvious that it wasn't properly tested in a community of average users and if it was, their issues were probably in good measure ignored. I hope the Senior Management of Adobe is looking for people who can pick up the pieces and make something more usable out of the application as a whole including the added technical functionality the application does bring to market.

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