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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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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.
Preferably don’t even use Reader, but something else like Sumatra. Suddenly you won’t even need to upgrade the hardware.
Most people can manage with the embedded PDF reader from their OS or the web browser nowadays.
Yes but everything is stuffed with telemetry, and web browsers are bloated behemoths. So on Windows at least something lightweight like Sumatra rules.
Not even editing them. You can do that without Acrobat. It is very helpful if you are designing forms though.
@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 thatEven if you did edit them, there are better tools than Acrobat.
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.
Conversely, IT is arguing about a $90 license on an employee that costs 80k. If it saves them 2 hours of productivity over the course of the year, it’s an even trade, wouldn’t you say?
Yeah but those $90 savings make IT management look good, and that 80k/year doesn’t come out of IT’s budget. Also the productivity loss can’t objectively be measured or will just be blamed on the employee.
I know this is more sarcasm rather than serious justification, but sadly I agree that it’s all true.
It’s definitely not sarcasm
No shit man. I just pay for my own. Ain’t worth arguing with IT. Saved me a shit ton of time reliably converting and editing PDFs.
There is a free PDF editor called Sejda, it might do what you need and save you some money.
This looks very promising for personal use, but as it is web-based it is almost certainly not HIPAA compliant which is a necessity for several professions.
Random aside, I’m always mildly amused because HIPAA (the US medical legislation) and FIPPA (the British Columbia privacy legislation) have similar requirements in many cases. :)
There is a downloadable version, that’s what I use. https://www.sejda.com/desktop
Thank you
Pisses me off no end when companies cheap out on IT equipment. I work in a place where a large number of us will be on £35 - £55k, yet the IT budget for each of us is less than 1% of our salary over 3 years.
It’s crazy. Don’t employ professionals then give them low end enthusiast gear.
$90? Where can I get Adobe Acrobat for $90? Standard is 14.99 per month! I’d buy that shit all day if it was a one time fee of $90.
It’d probably $90/year, not a one-time fee. Which is still a lot better than monthly, but probably only available to businesses/bulk licence buyers
I blame accounting. Although I also think that Acrobat’s price is BS.
If it was us, we wouldn’t have to be fighting for the licenses either.
It’s usually some high level IT exec who thinks they’ll get a bonus if they shave off $5K in expenses.
It took me months to get them to allow it even though I need it. And in the end, they gave me Creative Suite for some reason.
I worked for a small multinational (20.000ish employees).
The licensing department saved about 3 mio USD/year when they started going at license pinching.
Yeah, this penny pinching on licenses is pretty absurd. I promise you that it hardly affects the bottom line.
You can view and edit in Firefox, use that and I bet the number of people who don’t need acrobat would jump to 99%
Time to install
Linux!! 🎉
The 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!
Why is Preview not the PDF app on iOS and iPad? It’s Apple’s best software.
Wait… I can edit in Preview?
Preview basically opening most of what you throw at it, with editing options for many is soooo good
Yeah, you could of course use Firefox or another cheap or free option. Regardless, it all boils down to people don’t like change. The cost of adobe is very high and staff doesn’t realize or care. Quantify the bottom line to superiors and get muscle behind your change order.
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Pirate pdf software when better alternatives are free? Fuck that
And pirating for personal use? Okay
Pirating in a business? Bold move, Cotton
It’s upsetting that you have to sell licenses? Granted adobe portal sucks to high hell but I’d rather sell someone crap they don’t need because they demanded it rather then not sell anything.
That’s not what he’s saying.
They’re buying for their company
I just renewed my work creative suit license, normally I just blindly click it but this time I checked other plans and there was a “special offer” for the full suit. I saved my company 300 dollars… no one cared. I’m still feeling good about it though.
Just make sure the package you got the special offer on won’t be twice the money next year.
