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March 12, 2024
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General troubleshooting

  • March 12, 2024
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I am a 30 years retired  Academic and I want to buy the Academic version of Acrobat as I certainly can't afford the subcription or full price on a pure Australian pension. They need me to be a teacher  (at 90!!!!) but I am still in need of Acrobat I still have my marbles and the alternatives are not as good as what I have used all my working life

Any ideas?

Brian

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Participating Frequently
March 12, 2024

Hey brido11!

 

I'm sorry to hear that. I think Adobe definitely has a solution for you in such a case. Simply contact customer support. You can access this by clicking on the blue chat icon on the Adobe website. I hope you get help!

 

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2024

If you don't qualify for the Academic discount then you will have to purchase the regular license, like the rest of us, I'm afraid.

brido11Author
Participant
March 13, 2024
Dear Friends,

Yes, I had the chat guy on and there was nothing he could do; and today
I trawled the net for freebies Legal and (sadly for a person who has a
Masters in Ethics,) I looked for illegal means too..[bowed head asking
for forgiveness] Like most of us who have left employment I will have to
buy the proper version or use a second class alternative.

The trouble is that Adobe is out of the reach of most pensioners I know
(Certainly not on my aged pension.)

I have come to the conclusion that Adobe is very tough indeed getting
payment for its products and that is very reasonable for them, but there
must be many like myself who having left paid employment and have used
their product for years would love to have concessional access to their
programmes.  Most of my post retirement research and writing (and even
teaching) has been as a volunteer for various organisations, and now I
have really retired (!) (Also my super ran out when I was 80!!) Now, I
do not have access to the Acrobat programme.

At the moment, I am trying "PDF Gear". On first use, I was quite
impressed with it as a free programme. I will give it a try for a week
or two.

Thank you friends for help and a bit of moral support.

Brian

Cooranbong. Australia