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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by galaxi@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn't the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

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[-] Neve8028@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

Genuinely can't see a future where people collectively ditch adobe. They make industry standard products that companies, educational institutions, professionals, etc... buy.

[-] paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago

I used to be responsible for the app portfolio in a 1000+ user company, and every 3 years or so I would go back out to the market and try hard to replace Adobe, just for PDF operations. Couldn’t do it because so many products were integrated with them, often in ways we could not reproduce with other products. The best we could do would be to pay for a different product for 1/3 of the cost for Adobe, and then still end up having to carry a significant number of Adobe licenses for cases when integration failed with the other product. No-win situation, and just easier to stay with the evil we knew.

I hate them.

[-] Thrashy@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

In the AEC field we have Bluebeam as a de facto industry standard for PDFs, and it's vastly superior to Acrobat in every way for our typical use cases. I imagine it's a bit harder in other industries, though.

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