I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • Wojtek@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    What are people using to edit/sign PDFs. Adobe is a nightmare and I’d rather use anything else

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      16·
      1 year ago

      I don’t get why PDFs are so hard to open. The format has been around for ever. Why does Adobe have such a grasp on it, and why isn’t it as common to open as a txt?

      There are free programs that’ll open it, but it’s few and far between. It’s a pain in the ass to find one.

      Edit.
      I looked it up. Adobe created PDF, but:

      Anyone may create applications that can read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems; Adobe holds patents to PDF, but licenses them for royalty-free use in developing software complying with its PDF specification.

    • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Foxit Reader has decent PDF editing built in. I use it all the time. I think they can the pen mode “comments”, but you can also load your signature as an image file.

      The only time I use (pirated) Adobe Acrobat is when I need to edit existing content in PDFs, like fixing layout or editing text.

    • Farias@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Preview on macOS can do it. While it obviously doesn’t help everyone I’m not sure some Mac users realize there’s a built in tool for it

      • Wojtek@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’ve tried it in preview, it’s just not great. Or maybe I just haven’t mastered it yet… but it never intuitively does what I want it do

        • lol3droflxp@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          I only ever used preview. I tried Adobe stuff a few times but it was so horribly cluttered. So far preview could do everything I needed.

      • livus@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, might switch. I’m tired of Adobe running ten tons of crap in the background.

    • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Happy PDF-XChange user here. Fair pricing for home users / small businesses, great feature set, stable, regular updates that actually improve the product.

      Actually had complaints of less-technical users at work when by some weird accident the Adobe product returned (sneakily bundled installer?) or when a Windows decided that PDFs are to be opened with Edge now, because the users wanted PDF-XChange back. Normally users either don’t notice or don’t care.