Why I hate ADOBE!!

[|Jason27806011o5i3]

So it seems that thare are a few misguided individuals that think there is no reasonable reason why to hate Adobe.  Mine is quite simple.  I'm a Unix only user.  Yes that's right we exist.  The linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/HPUX... group.    So someone sends you a PDF created by Adobe Creator...   They have no idea what OS the receipiant will have.   Now to open the file I have to fire up a VM that runs Windows simply to read a "Portable Document Format" that originally toted the open anywhere idea...  The bloated Free Adobe DC Reader once downloaded takes forever to simply start.   Thankfully the document reader eventually loads.   I now open the PDF and then immediately print to file.   All of a sudden the EXACT same PDF is now readable under Linux.  I understand that there are some quite complicated PDF's out there... Sadly though 99% of them are a simple blank form that didn't ever need to be created in Adobe Creator.   Any PDF editor could have created it and users could write on top of it...  Now I have downloaded the Adobe DC on my ipad, (another Unix FreeBSD clone) and yes again I couldn't open the PDF...  So hate Adobe...

[kglad]

if you're a committed unix user why are you criticizing a company that makes nothing compatible with your computer?

ie, it's not adobe's fault you can't shoehorn its software into your unix vm.  

[InfiniteWhale]

Because Adobe, through their aggressive business practices, have a real stranglehold over the creative industries.  Hardly anyone would use Adobe's sub-par products if they didn't HAVE to.  Any more smarmy stupid questions? 

[Susan30284971c77y]

Hi Jason-- no worries, I hate Adobe, too. Really overpriced for the two apps I need. There's literally nothing else that costs this much. Hoping some good upstart company will come up with something equivalent... til then, I guess I'm just stuck paying their exhorbitant costs and complaining about how much I hate them on the internet.

[kglad]

@Susan30284971c77y 

you posted on acrobat reader forum.  reader is free.

[Pablo32028998q04v]

I can only agree, Adobe causes me visceral feelings. Yes, its free. Yes you can just avoid it and there are good alternatives for all OS's. The problem is Adobe as a company uses underhanded, corrupt tactics to force everybody into its software and make people  pay for stuff  that should be free. For example. I have a dual booting  Windows-Archinux computer, and I almost never use Acrobat. Yet I have it installed on my windows side just for digitally signing documents. Why??? because it's the only software my goverment accepts for taxes and other legal stuff. Why are ther no open surce alternatives ???? Why governments and lawyers dont use them if they exist? And why oh Why,  Acrobat is always nagging me to make it the default pdf viewer??? I spent 30 minutes trying to find out how to disable these unwelcome notifications.  Unfortunately I cant just obliterate it from my system and its too bad. 

[kglad]

@Pablo32028998q04v 

you're blaming adobe for an issue with your government.

[kglad]

disagree, but so what.

[kglad]

locked.