I've used Acrobat extensively in scientific and other varieties of document management since version 4 through 6 and Pro versions 7, 8 & 9-extended and I found the previous version upgrades to be great improvements in functionality and flexibility - UNTIL Acrobat X Pro, which is a major step BACKWARD for users.I read many of the Adobe "excuses" for eliminating features and expanding "real estate" on small devices however, these reasons are INValid! I have used Adobe Reader on my PDA phone for years, as well as Adobe on my laptop, and IF I need more readable space, THEN I can CHOOSE "when and what" toolbars and tools to display or not. I too am a disillusioned long-time customer of Adobe Acrobat, after seeing all the DOWNGRADES in version X Pro, which make this version Harder to Navigate for individualized user's functions. I don't know why they remove it, but I know that I'll not continue with the next version, luckily - I purchased only one license, we will stay with the version 9 - better than version 10 (put an X on it). Many people use it (that's why it wasn't removed from version 7 to 8, and from 8 to 9). Well, it is all excuses, The Organize/Collections was in the last 3 versions of Acrobat, it not had problems, with enterprises, versions control. UVSAR: "Looking at the target customer base for Acrobat (which is the enterprise knowledge worker, not individual creative or home users), those who require file management and version control". UVSAR : "Acrobat has millions of regular users, so even a hundred people don't count a great deal in the overall picture, and Adobe does have very accurate data on the detailed usage". Gkaiseril :"There are so many new devices that have small screens".
UVSAR: "Organizer was dropped from the Acrobat X Family as it was increasingly difficult to support on modern operating systems" Here are the summary of all the "reasons": Remember that just as many people complain about the size of the installer footprint, so if every possible feature was left in, we'd be buried under accusations of "bloatware". As such, Organizer was simply too much work to fix compared to the number of people wanting it. Looking at the target customer base for Acrobat (which is the enterprise knowledge worker, not individual creative or home users), those who require file management and version control almost all use an enterprise-class solution for that purpose, and wouldn't be allowed to run their own desktop-level hive even if they wanted to. For example now that Acrobat X integrates into SharePoint, apparently-simple ideas like the folder location of the file you viewed last week are not at all straightforward.
Udi wrote:I don't understand Adobe, the Organize/Collections feature isn't "expensive" in terms of GUI (that was there since version 7, I think), they could leave it in the Acrobat X, it does not consume a ToolBar, not even a button.It's not about the space taken up by the menu item, it's the (frankly horrible) code required behind the scenes to make Organizer work properly.