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Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.
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I actually used to use DC a lot in my previous job (everyone had access), and having full edit functionality would help me in this one too. I’ve tried other options but I haven’t requested a licence because the main thing I do nowadays is merge and split pdfs and there are other options for that. I only miss it occasionally.
Foxit was good several years ago - no clue about recently
It’s just as garbage nonsenseware as Adobe. I installed it recently on my friend’s PC and holy shit, whatever happened to that small program. It went to the bin and Sumatra was installed instead.
What’s it doing now? I’ve had it installed for a few years, and other than trying to install a trial of its premium software when it updates, I haven’t noticed anything. I’m wondering if it’s because I’ve turned something off and forgotten about it.
I don’t remember exactly, but it’s definitely quite a large installer with a lot of “extras” and IIRC they’re pushing some cloud service too. I guess it’s standard these days tho.
They ditched create-from-scanner function in some of updates of free version, or hid it somewhere. I treasured my old exe where it’s still accessible.
Ah, ok, that’s not something I’d ever used, so I didn’t know it had been removed.
I saved the last version before they took out the pdf printer. Still not an editor. Used bluebeam for that. Though that was also bought out and being run into the ground.
Time to install
Linux!! 🎉
What is a good alternative for saving fillable form PDFs as a flat file or image? I’ve been using
openofficelibreoffice draw for editing PDFs recently but every method I have come across seems like a workaround rather than a feature, while adobe can do it with a click.just print the form to PDF?
In windows it wont maintain the form size. It will just put it on one of a few preset sizes of paper.
Isn’t friggin Edge better than Reader
Please don’t give Adobe money.
They’re not Oracle. But they’re trying.
Adobe is run by the Ferenghi. They studied the rules of acquisition.
@TheWaterGod
The only time I ever use acrobat is when I need to fill in the blanks of a PDF. Mainly because Preview.app on macOS does a terrible job of thatThe basic pdf editing options you can find in most browsers (including edge) is more than enough for most people
If you have a mac… well, preview is bloody amazing
Preview > Acrobat Reader. It’s not even a contest.
Imo its not that hard to beat acrobat reader, i hate it!
Wait… I can edit in Preview?
Preview basically opening most of what you throw at it, with editing options for many is soooo good
Why is Preview not the PDF app on iOS and iPad? It’s Apple’s best software.
May I recommend SumatraPDF? It’s so fast at loading and rendering the document
+1 for free and open source software, this program just works
Big fan of Sumatra.
It’s nice for comic books too.
It’s not a PDF editor though. I love Sumatra to death and will attest it loaded my 1000+ page college textbook in an instant. Also auto divided the chapters and subsections into their own table of contents and I could Ctrl+F the entire textbook in seconds.
Unfortunately it still can’t sign and edit PDFs.
God, this is so true. Too many idiots that wanted a full suite license just to print documents.
I see people confuse ‘annotate’ and ‘edit’ a lot. They don’t even try.
We do have Reader at work. When I didn’t have to fill in something for a week or two, I always click the wrong thing (edit) first, have to close down the useless popup and then go to the right thing (annotate).
The UI is built to make you think that having the paid version is the only way to write something inside all those forms.
One of my favorite image viewing and correcting softwares is Irfanview. It’s not a full blown editor, but it does everything else you could imagine, extremely lightweight and it very very fast! Oh yeah, it’s also free.
I’ve been using this software for many years, and only recently found out you can open PDFs with it. It absolutely blew me away how quickly it did this as well compared to Adobe!
I’m a professional, I use professional apps. I don’t make the rules!
I honestly don’t know why anyone uses Adobe acrobat for anything - reader or the editor. PDF is an open standard.
Plenty of open source software does a decent job of making PDFs - Libre Office for example. And if you have Microsoft Word then you can export documents to PDF without issue; or you can use Print to PDF tools too
Its unlikely any office environment doesnt already have licenses for Microsoft Office so just bin Acrobat and direct people to use office. And if you’re not paying for office then why are you paying for Acrobat?
As an editor, much of my job–in fact, most of my job–involves reviewing PDFs with Acrobat Pro and marking them up with the markup tools.
We already use creative cloud at work and occasionally I need to sign documents, Acrobat makes that pretty easy.
I needed to create bookmarks for a large PDF and I could NOT find anyone else who would let me do what I needed.
It makes me sad but Adobe is the only game in town for powerful PDF editing. It’s a shame no open source project seems to be there.
It’s not open source but I think foxit is even more powerful if we are only talking about pdf editing.
Not even editing them. You can do that without Acrobat. It is very helpful if you are designing forms though.
