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May 31, 2024
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adobe acrobat made us cry

  • May 31, 2024
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This application is the single worst piece of technology I've ever seen. For 5 HOURS, we have been trying to convert an adobe acrobat file to a pdf or literally any other type of file because an adobe file is not manageable, since anything that you try to add to the file turns into little boxes with x's or gibberish, it is crazy, it makes you go crazy!!! Then on top of that, because the file got corrupted all of our work turned into little boxes with x's and we lost 11 pages of work. This issue has to be fixed since this could ruin many other people's hard work just like it did ours. 

Please be aware that the only reason we even used adobe acrobat in the first place was because we didn't have any other options!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Participant
June 5, 2024

I am in my own bit of Acrobat HELL today-- all I say is WHY.... WHY WHY WHY

Why is it so darned difficult to make a CONSISTENT product?

WHY is it taking me so much longer to do things I used to do---

HOW LONG HAVE A BEEN A USER YOU ASK?

THE ENTIRE TIME. yes--- THAT IS CORRECT

I cannot with this program any more and I feel like I want to blow it all up return my "new computer" and literally go back to 2000 back when it was a little program that was actually USEFUL, back when you BOUGHT it ONCE, BACK when you just used it like every other program that didnt change at the drop of a hat.

Now I PAY MORE and USE LESS efficiency.

WHAT A DRAG..................................

since when does this program CRASH so much??

it just really is not good.

LUMIN anyone? 

ugh.

ugh...

I got a new system an am trying way to hard to deal -- all I want is to not be using this file anymore ---

ACROBAT turns out now means TORTURE.

 

Thom Parker
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 31, 2024

Acrobat is not a text editing or word processing application. While Acrobat does provide some editing capabilities , these are only provided for limited touchup, not wholesale changes to the text. Content changes to the document should always be done in the original (content creation) format. 

 

In case the original file was lost or you are not the owner of the file, Acrobat also provides several file conversion options. So you could save the PDF (Acrobat only displays PDF files, there is not such thing as an Acrobat file) as a .doc (Word) or .ind (InDesign) file. These are both excellent editing/word processing formats. 

 

It's likely the text appears garbled because the specified font does not exists, or the pasted character encoding is incorrect.   

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
Participant
June 5, 2024

Hi Thom

You have to agree that the "new" version is not as great as the original--

New bells and whistles aside--

It is as though the newer program is trying to solve to many things for too many people.

I am an architect-

I have to redline submittals- put on a stamp- and call it a day

I upgraded my computer and now I am lost---- so much time lost and so much frustration-

I am convinced that it is no longer the product I need.

Sincerely,

Peggy Sullivan

 

Participant
May 31, 2024

I literally experienced the same thing. I worked on a school project for hours and while I was on like the 13th page I realized that the prior ones got corrupted and everything I typed in was changed to the same boxes with x's. Then I went ahead and did it all again. Furthermore once I was finished there were still some letters that were not letters but were weird boxes with x's. Then I couldn't even download it because it got even more corrupted as I did so, so I had to take screenshots which I think is really an unprofessional way someone is forced to deal with such a problem. I'm not even mentioning the glitches while you use it. People pay for this service, Adobe is a big company. This should be fixed. Nobody should be have to deal with this. Please do something about this!!!