Posted this at the Adobe forums and it went nowhere so why not try it here?
Acrobat 8 productivity in a prepress enviroment. Seriously Adobe, what were you thinking?
In Acrobat 6 & 7 I could open the preview separations window and move it over to the side of the screen and keep my mouse pointed right at the black separation check box. Then I could keep my other hand on the keyboard arrow keys and I could fly through multi page PDF's by hitting the arrow key while turning the black separation on and off to check for 4 color blacks. And then along comes Acrobat 8 and this is no longer possible because if the separation preview window has the focus the arrow keys do not take you to the next page. If the page window has the focus the arrow keys work but you have to click the separation window once to give it the focus and then again to turn the black separation off. Once you do that the arrow keys no longer work because the page window does not have the focus so you have to click on the page to give the page window the focus and then hit the arrow key on the keyboard. Want to hit the check box on the output preview window again? One click to to give it the focus and then another click to click the check box. Production has been cut by about 75% with all of this extra clicking. Will have to stick with Acrobat 7 I guess. I just don't have the time to use Acrobat 8.
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Edited by: Joe on Jan 4, 2008 9:45 PM
Acrobat 8 productivity in a prepress enviroment. Seriously Adobe, what were you thinking?
In Acrobat 6 & 7 I could open the preview separations window and move it over to the side of the screen and keep my mouse pointed right at the black separation check box. Then I could keep my other hand on the keyboard arrow keys and I could fly through multi page PDF's by hitting the arrow key while turning the black separation on and off to check for 4 color blacks. And then along comes Acrobat 8 and this is no longer possible because if the separation preview window has the focus the arrow keys do not take you to the next page. If the page window has the focus the arrow keys work but you have to click the separation window once to give it the focus and then again to turn the black separation off. Once you do that the arrow keys no longer work because the page window does not have the focus so you have to click on the page to give the page window the focus and then hit the arrow key on the keyboard. Want to hit the check box on the output preview window again? One click to to give it the focus and then another click to click the check box. Production has been cut by about 75% with all of this extra clicking. Will have to stick with Acrobat 7 I guess. I just don't have the time to use Acrobat 8.
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Edited by: Joe on Jan 4, 2008 9:45 PM