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The SPECIFIC reason I hate adobe - as a nursing student

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
June 29, 2025
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My main issue is with Acrobat, PDFs.

Please don't insult my intelligence and tell me it's a sophisticated software. It's not!!! And yet even as a nursing student everything I upload has to be a PDF, and I'm forced to pay to use this paper-combining "software"!!!

It's one thing for a corporation to make life easier for people, like discovering a cure for cancer.

It's ANOTHER subject for a company to CREATE A PROBLEM, and then innocently offer the cure at an obnoxious price.

WHO decided to make PDFs the king of everything, and make this silly software so expensive!

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JR Boulay

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"Please don't insult my intelligence and tell me it's a sophisticated software. It's not!!!"

Yes it is.

Acrobat Pro is a more complexe software than Photoshop or InDesign, but many of its functions are not immediately apparent.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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patrickj43307958Author

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If adobe acrobat is sooooo great, then what would call other technologies, like WHATSAPP, which allows us to send photos(???) for free (???) to anyone in the world (???).

JR Boulay

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Like Acrobat, Photoshop and InDesign were created and are used by graphic arts professionals.

These programs are not designed for students in unrelated professions who grumble.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

jane-e

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My main issue is with Acrobat, PDFs.

WHO decided to make PDFs the king of everything
By @patrickj43307958

This video shows what our workflow was before Adobe created Acrobat 1.0:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrpyY8KPWE&t=8s

I remember using couriers to send long documents (500+ pages) to and from a client. They made edits in the margins with a pencil. We also had to Print to File and send a PostScript file to the printer without being able to view the final document. Adobe Acrobat changed all that and streamlined our workflow.

Quite a few years ago, Adobe gave away PDF technology to an ISO. They no longer own PDF and other vendors can create, read, and edit PDFs (with varying degrees of quality.)

Adobe continues to make the most stable PDFs, which is why I have stuck with them. You don't have to.

You can even use couriers and fax machines if that is your preference! 😊

Jane

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patrickj43307958Author

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Ok, I will be try and be nice.

I think you're giving thanks to "general" technology having advanced.

Let me refresh your memory, it's easier to share EVERYTHING now compared to 1991 LOL.

I can send a photo halfway around the world in 0.0001 seconds.

Again: Don't insult my intelligence by saying ACROBAT contributed so much to techonological advancement that it should be paid???

ADOBE ACROBAT is basically email - only very basic.

Rack your brain hard and tell me just WHAT innovative breakrough adobe acrobat solved?

What's next? Microsoft word helped us move on from using passenger pigeons??

jane-e

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just WHAT innovative breakrough adobe acrobat solved?
By @patrickj43307958

It's more than I can go into here, but sign up for my four-day class in Acrobat if you really want to know its capabilities.

Jane

try67

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No one's forcing you to use Acrobat. There are plenty of alternatives out there, some free:

www.google.com/search?q=combine+pdf+free

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patrickj43307958Author

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That's my point, sweetheart.

Adobe acrobate is so basic and simple that people in their basements are creating their own version!!!

But you can't create a duplicate of photoshop so easily?

See - I am giving credit to adobe, just not acrobat. Stupid name, too!

kglad

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@patrickj43307958

https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community-discussions/adobe-community-guidelines/td-p/4788157/redirect_from_archived_page/true

no second warning.

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ali_3193

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Listen to your frustration fully - it's amazing how something as basic as combining PDFs ends up behind a paywall. It seems like we've all accepted PDF as the default without questioning whether there's a better, more accessible option.

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patrickj43307958Author

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Thank you for sympathysing with me. I agree 100%. We're living in THEIR world.

kglad

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you can't use reader?

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patrickj43307958Author

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Sweetheart, I need to "combine" PDFs, not just open them.

I basically need to do a "copy paste" and yet I have to pay for it?

kglad

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in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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patrickj43307958Author

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Yes, thank you 🙂

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