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.
What’s the significance of BBW for German car mechanics? Googling didn’t help
BBW is “big beautiful women”. BMW is a German car make.
So every so often, you’d get someone whose 3 series wouldn’t shift out of park getting advice from horny men who love fat women.
Got it!
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.
It’s definitely not sarcasm
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.
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If it was us, we wouldn’t have to be fighting for the licenses either.
It’s usually some high level IT exec who thinks they’ll get a bonus if they shave off $5K in expenses.
It took me months to get them to allow it even though I need it. And in the end, they gave me Creative Suite for some reason.
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.
Yeah, this penny pinching on licenses is pretty absurd. I promise you that it hardly affects the bottom line.
No shit man. I just pay for my own. Ain’t worth arguing with IT. Saved me a shit ton of time reliably converting and editing PDFs.
There is a free PDF editor called Sejda, it might do what you need and save you some money.
This looks very promising for personal use, but as it is web-based it is almost certainly not HIPAA compliant which is a necessity for several professions.
There is a downloadable version, that’s what I use. https://www.sejda.com/desktop
Random aside, I’m always mildly amused because HIPAA (the US medical legislation) and FIPPA (the British Columbia privacy legislation) have similar requirements in many cases. :)
Thank you
$90? Where can I get Adobe Acrobat for $90? Standard is 14.99 per month! I’d buy that shit all day if it was a one time fee of $90.
It’d probably $90/year, not a one-time fee. Which is still a lot better than monthly, but probably only available to businesses/bulk licence buyers
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
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Preview > Acrobat Reader. It’s not even a contest.
Imo its not that hard to beat acrobat reader, i hate it!
Preview basically opening most of what you throw at it, with editing options for many is soooo good
Wait… I can edit in Preview?
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
Yes and no, the people making Okular likely applied because they are German, they got the award because they applied for it, and met the Award criteria. The award criteria seems to me fairly general in its approach to software testing, but resonably rigorous as well, the amount and type of measurements required also seem resonably useful for answering roughly the question: “Is the tested software energy and resource efficient”, it can be found here
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Not advocating for the use of that software, but…very easy to measure.
Evince for me. I can print off pages from songbooks I have in e-book form. Evince don’t care about no drm
Okular is awesome
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“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
Foxit reader, trust
I second this.
Looks like Foxit is freeware with a subscription option for enterprise deployment packages. Not ideal.
Maybe Okular? It’s from the KDE project and it’s on the Windows store.
Foxit has a subscription plan if you need advance tools, it’s perfectly fine (and customizable) if you want to use the standard plan… No ads, no popups, nothing except your pdf and a lot of features you can use for free. You should give it a try, it’s really good.
Ehhh. Still proprietary. I’d rather use open source tools, even if it takes a slight functionality hit.
There’s also SumatraPDF which seems pretty similar to Evince, though I don’t know the latter
I’ll second SumatraPDF. Lightweight, easy.
Okular is quite nice and I believe has a windows port (though I’ve not tried it). https://okular.kde.org/download/
Try pdf xchange
Try Sumatra, PDF24 and or Foxit Reader. There are plenty of alternatives for a pdf reader, and a lot of them are even faster than acrobat!
It’s annoying AF. But there is an option in the settings to open as it was last closed. So open a file, minimize all those toolbars, save the file, close the file, open a file. Should be good to go.
“Go to Edit > Preferences > Documents, and then select Remember current state of Tools pane.”
Wondershare PDFelement is pretty respectable.
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%
Please don’t give Adobe money.
They’re not Oracle. But they’re trying.
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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.
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.
It’s nice for comic books too.
+1 for free and open source software, this program just works
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
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I see people confuse ‘annotate’ and ‘edit’ a lot. They don’t even try.
We do have Reader at work. When I didn’t have to fill in something for a week or two, I always click the wrong thing (edit) first, have to close down the useless popup and then go to the right thing (annotate).
The UI is built to make you think that having the paid version is the only way to write something inside all those forms.
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.
Not even editing them. You can do that without Acrobat. It is very helpful if you are designing forms though.
