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Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.
This reminds me of my all time favourite lost redditor that asked for a Adobe Acrobat alternative on r/freeuse (which is not about free software but very nsfw). They were extremely helpful though.
r/inflation never seemed to know if it was for Furries or for Economists
r/trees was absolutely sure what they were about. As was r/marijuanaenthusiasts.
/trees only happened because there was a power tripping mod that was banning everyone from /weed, and the arborists hadn't shown up yet cause the Digg/Slashdot migrations hadn't happened yet, and when they did show up they decided to be snarky about it, lol.
That's hilarious.
There was apparently a significant population of German car mechanics on /r/BBW as well.
lost redditors was great fun, I remember that /r/Burial (about the musical artist) used to keep a running count of confused morticians that would wander in.
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.
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.
I blame accounting. Although I also think that Acrobat's price is BS.
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.
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
The best pdf reader for me is Okular. It is free, open source and certified with the German "Blauer Engel" for it's energy efficiency (as first software ever btw)
Blauer Engel
I don't think it's more "power efficient" than other pdf readers (Like Sumatra). It looks like the only reason it got that award is because it's German software. I'm saying that as Austrian. Super weird thing to give an award to.
How would they even measure it? Pdf readers use close to zero CPU. And using more or less RAM has nothing to do with power usage.
I would bet a million that Adobe is very resource heavy in comparison to Okular. So while it is using almost nothing, everything adds up
Evince for me. I can print off pages from songbooks I have in e-book form. Evince don't care about no drm
"Hate" is a strong word for my feelings towards Adobe Acrobat reader. But I really don't like it when I start it to view a pdf, you know the thing it is designed to do, and I have a weird popup, then a toolbar on the right with tools I can't use cause they're premium and a toolbar on the left and a toolbar at the top underneath the standard windows toolbar. I just wanna view the pdf man (also weird snapping when you scroll over a page). Haven't found anything nice yet that just works. I don't want to use Edge or a browser to view them and mupdf is too light weight. Would really like an evince for windows
There's also SumatraPDF which seems pretty similar to Evince, though I don't know the latter
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.
Please don't give Adobe money.
They're not Oracle. But they're trying.
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%
May I recommend SumatraPDF? It's so fast at loading and rendering the document
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.
Big fan of Sumatra.
LibreOffice Draw does nice editing as well, I've just learned that recently
And PDF Arranger is very simple for rearranging, rotating, inserting, removing and rotating pages
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.
Look, say what you will, but I kinda like using Edge as a pdf reader. Its out-of-the-box PDF markup features really speak to me, I don't know why.
Preferably don't even use Reader, but something else like Sumatra. Suddenly you won't even need to upgrade the hardware.
Is there another program that will let you make form fillable PDFs that you don't have to pay a sub for?
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.
Not even editing them. You can do that without Acrobat. It is very helpful if you are designing forms though.
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 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.