Working with comments can still feel a little clunky, especially if you have replies in the document, but it's a much smoother experience than before. Acrobat X puts the different options for protecting your document into one panel, while the new comments panel combines the tools you can use to create comments with the list of existing comments. Like many applications that have been around for several years with new features shoe-horned into an interface that wasn't designed to accommodate that many, Acrobat 9 scatters the tools you need for related features into multiple menus: signing a document, encrypting a document and setting the security level for a document are on completely different sub-menus, for example, while redacting options are on a toolbar. This still takes up an appreciable amount of screen space, but if you're looking at document pages one at a time you can see a whole page on-screen at a reasonable magnification with the panels open at the side.

Acrobat X fits nearly all of what you need into just two toolbars, replacing the current plethora of menus and toolbars with three menus on the toolbar that open a new taskpane interface at the side of the screen with multiple collapsible panels for different tools.

Acrobat x standard