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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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[–] umad_cause_ibad@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Gotta make money somehow?

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 4 points 2 years 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?

[–] ZIRO@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] digitalgadget@kbin.social 3 points 2 years 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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[–] rakadaka@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They use it, just not to its full capability.

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[–] Cheez@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You tell me. I regularly have to sweep our org for unused licences of Acrobat, Visio, Project, AutoCAD and Bluebeam.

Half the time they just wanted to read one file but when you ask them when they put in the request they were apparently our next super engineer.

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