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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I needed to create bookmarks for a large PDF and I could NOT find anyone else who would let me do what I needed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What is a good alternative for saving fillable form PDFs as a flat file or image? I've been using ~~openoffice~~ libreoffice 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Even if you did edit them, there are better tools than Acrobat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing I use acrobat for is for converting pdf’s to other formats. Why reader can’t do that I don’t know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta make money somehow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What would motivate someone to insist on having software he doesn't use?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They use it, just not to its full capability.

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