AssholeDesign

7606 readers

1 users here now

This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

241

Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee (imgur.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

39 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Not mine but this is actually what I did too.

I said I plan to charge back on my credit card. They threatened that if I did that, they can't promise my account wouldnt be flagged.

I said "bet" and they removed the cancellation fee and cancelled the service.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wow, I had no idea Acrobat Reader still exists. They charge €15,72 per month now apparently.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reader has always been free. This is for Pro which allows you to do manipulation of PDFs, not just viewing them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember (but can't find it right now) that the PDF format became open source at some point and free alternatives came out for PDF editing. And that was already back in the 2000s when people still printed documents (which is what PDF was originally meant for).

In modern times, every browser/OS can read PDF, every text editor can export to PDF, nobody prints physical documents and there are free alternatives – so why do they still exist and who is paying?

[–] Dinsmore 5 points 5 months ago

If you have a business like a law firm where it is VERY IMPORTANT that a PDF has certain qualities, free tools for PDF creation can be a big gamble, especially if you have to open a PDF that someone else has created and do changes to it. And the cost is pretty trivial compared to the cost of messing up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just open pdfs in the (firefox) browser. Does most of what I need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

My company pays for it so we can edit pdf forms.
Sadly not many capable tools for that exist. Open for suggestions (Windows) though

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

For a professional, what Acrobat pro can do is not available in any other program and (don't tell Adobe!) only 50 cents a day is an incredible deal

For example you can scan a sheet of paper, it does OCR on it and creates a font that matches exactly the one on page, then you can change words and sentences without changing the look of it.

Trim pages, remove elements, edit embedded images and vectors with other programs (doesn't need to be made by Adobe but it works better if it is). Change margins, fonts, colors, flow text differently, change the line spacing. Have a preview how color will change when printed, see if spot colors are used and change them in different ways. Edit transparencies, use plugins for extended repetitive work. Convert the fonts to outlines if the font has some kind of DRM and doesn't allow embedding, resulting in visual difference between other computers.

The nerfed standard edition at 10 euro per month instead isn't worth anything