Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.

  • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          /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.

    • bpm@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

        • bpm@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • silentknyght@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • cor315@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      $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.

    • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • PhreakyByNature@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I actually used to use DC a lot in my previous job (everyone had access), and having full edit functionality would help me in this one too. I’ve tried other options but I haven’t requested a licence because the main thing I do nowadays is merge and split pdfs and there are other options for that. I only miss it occasionally.

  • Paulemeister@feddit.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    “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

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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

  • mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    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)

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Presumably it means it has been actually audited by a third party for wasteful cycles, etc. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s cheaper to run than another app, just that it’s cheaper than some objective standard.

  • Soulfire@blimps.xyz
    1·
    2 years ago

    @TheWaterGod
    The only time I ever use acrobat is when I need to fill in the blanks of a PDF. Mainly because Preview.app on macOS does a terrible job of that