I’m so absolutely sick of it.
Our company is using nitro pro for editing PDF.
I hate that people try to edit PDFs.
There’s a hundred formats more suited to editing.
It’s very common in the medical and legal analyst fields. There’s a lot of scanned paper in those industries.
Scans are just rasterized images. There are many formats more suitable for scanning and then editing, and some of them are even embedded inside PDF.
Ugh. You just reminded me of the time I asked for a CSV file from a customer and got a .doc file.
Inside it was a screenshot of the CSV file opened in Excel.
I was just impressed that somebody could misuse so much software so badly.
I worked with somebody that couldn’t grasp that Word was not an email program.
Every time she had to send an email she’d open Word, type it up, then File>Send by Email…
She also installed “Incredimail” every week and thought library was pronounced “lyeberry”
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Accountant?
The number of times I’ve received a file that was or could have been a CSV extract is insane.
At least Excel has gotten pretty good at extracting text.
Still, not much worse than receiving an Excel file with an embedded PDF.
One of those businesses where the accountant, the IT manager, and the person who locks up in the evening are all the same person.
And the only qualification they have for any of these roles is that they’ve been there the longest.
I’ve still never recovered from the time I asked someone for a screenshot of an error they were getting and they literally printed their screen, circled the error, scanned it with our copier, then copied and pasted that into a Word document and attached that document to a reply email.
It’s always ethical to pirate from Adobe.
Or use Monkrus to get pre-cracked versions 😎
Monkrus does some good Adobe stuff, never had any problems with them
Hey chatGPT, what would Blackbeard have to say about Adobe licensing?
Adobe, be drivin’ me to madness with their confusin’ schemes. Ye need a map just to make sense of it all! They be chargin’ a king’s ransom for their software, and what do ye get in return? Aye, a license that’s as flimsy as a ship’s riggin’ in a storm.
It’s a never-endin’ voyage through their terms and conditions, and I can’t fathom their logic. It be like navigatin’ the high seas with a broken compass. They be restrictin’ the use of their software, demandin’ we pay a ransom every month, and heaven forbid ye want to use it on multiple devices! They’ll make ye walk the plank for that.
And don’t get me started on their audits, me heartie. They be sendin’ their parrots to check if ye be usin’ their software properly, threatenin’ to keelhaul ye if they find a single violation. It be daylight robbery, I tell ye!
All I want is Lightroom classic for photo organization and I have to subscribe. Like come on.
Not saying its a 1:1 alternative, but I used darktable a few times to do this and for post processing.
I am definitely not a photographer or graphics expert by any means, but I used it on recommendation of someone who is and was also complaining about Adobe lol.
I really don’t know if it lacks anything compared to lightroom, but all the fancy switches and bars and stuff looked pretty cool and too advanced for me to understand,
Fuck’em!
Is it possible to pay for an Adobe sub, and install only the so you want without any background update service?
I wanted to install bridge, and it installed a management app. I find it not to trying at startup, but it still runs an update service regardless.
I don’t understand how Adobe gets away with such invasive software.
They have money, and with it comes power. Also, main Adobe users seem to not care about shady bussiness practices because they “need” Adobe’s products.
I literally just wanted to esign a document the other day, and in order to get the functionality I wanted ONE TIME, I had to create an account, give them my credit card info for a free trial, let Acrobat Reader download all the other functionality I didn’t need, which took 10 minutes. The program crashed, buttons didn’t work, it didn’t save the first time.
I fucking hate Adobe.
What’s a good PDF editor that does e-signatures that I don’t have to pay a long-term subscription for? Foxit is nice, but requires a subscription.
I’ve been using exactly Foxit for many years just for digital signing, without subscription. Currently on Mac.
Also deployed FoxIt for the past 2 years. Super simple to deploy with Intune and authenticate with 365 credentials.
Anyone got a good Illustrator replacement for SVG and vector creation?
Inkscape is pretty great now. Lots of improvement in the last couple of years.
Affinity Designer 2
As someone that had to deal with adobe for 5 years for an 800 person studio. Fuck Adobe. For the rest of forever.
The CEO of Adobe (Shantanu Narayen) is a greedy bastard.
He’s just a tool, though. The problem is capitalism, and in this instance, the expectation of intinite growth.
Literally argued with a bunch of game-pass supporters on this very topic today, where we don’t own shit anymore and everything is rental only. Sick of people gobbling corporate cock.
Hey adobe, how about you stop contacting everyone in our organization using a single non-profit license of a single product and telling them we should all be on a single cloud account so we can pay several times more for the same thing just to get access to sharing services no one wants?
They emailed our entire organization saying their license were expiring which resulted in 100s of calls to our service desk. Fucking hate Adobe.
This a thousand times. Maybe literally. They just won’t stop harassing us.
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Our last bill was about 28k, and we don’t get to use SAML for that price.
I signed up for creative cloud and accidentally signed for a year. They want 60$ to cancel the subscription. Suck my taint.
Hahahaaha omg ! This is hilarious. Thanks bro
Was it recent (and can you get the credit card agency to revert it?)
No it’s always been that way. They have adopted a similar subscription as phone carriers. If you cancel early, you face a penalty.
Most other subscriptions don’t actually let you cancel and receive a refund (you just ride out the sub). But, that’s Adobe. They’ll always find the worst, shittiest way to make it happen.
I mean it’s the same company that held the internet down with Flash, that at one point was the top source of nearly all malware through a browser.
3 months in - it’s Definitely my bad
Change your subscription to something else, this resets the counter. You can now cancel without fines.
Whaaaa that works?
I did it a few months back, and immediately cancelled the new plan with no fees, worked a treat. Also FYI the educational discount is pretty great, I set mine up with my daughters email address no issues, I’m not sure how much they check this as it’s not a school email address.
Are you still stuck with this? My brother did the same not long ago, but I found a way to cancel the subscription without having to pay anything!
How is that even legal
Unlike most online services that essentially do not offer refunds (you just ride out the subscription), Adobe has created more of a carrier type plan, where there is a yearly contract so it accrues the same penalty like any phone plan.
So yeah, legal. Just the worst kind of legal. And that’s Adobe. Just the worst kind.
Ah yes true sysadmin energy in this post
Expensive as hell, it insists I use their insecure office add on “PDF Maker” but people around here find it worth $350 a year to be able to merge pdf’s from the context menu so I’m stuck trying to find ways to support it with out compromising the network. I hate the adobe suite
Check out Nitro Pro. We switched around 25k users to it after adobe jacked our licence cost by 30%.
Fuck Adobe.
I use pdfsam to merge pdfs. Open source and works fine.
