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Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.
This reminds me of my all time favourite lost redditor that asked for a Adobe Acrobat alternative on r/freeuse (which is not about free software but very nsfw). They were extremely helpful though.
r/inflation never seemed to know if it was for Furries or for Economists
r/trees was absolutely sure what they were about. As was r/marijuanaenthusiasts.
/trees only happened because there was a power tripping mod that was banning everyone from /weed, and the arborists hadn't shown up yet cause the Digg/Slashdot migrations hadn't happened yet, and when they did show up they decided to be snarky about it, lol.
There was apparently a significant population of German car mechanics on /r/BBW as well.
lost redditors was great fun, I remember that /r/Burial (about the musical artist) used to keep a running count of confused morticians that would wander in.
What’s the significance of BBW for German car mechanics? Googling didn’t help
BBW is "big beautiful women". BMW is a German car make.
So every so often, you'd get someone whose 3 series wouldn't shift out of park getting advice from horny men who love fat women.
Got it!
That's hilarious.
Conversely, IT is arguing about a $90 license on an employee that costs 80k. If it saves them 2 hours of productivity over the course of the year, it's an even trade, wouldn't you say?
Pisses me off no end when companies cheap out on IT equipment. I work in a place where a large number of us will be on £35 - £55k, yet the IT budget for each of us is less than 1% of our salary over 3 years.
It's crazy. Don't employ professionals then give them low end enthusiast gear.
Yeah but those $90 savings make IT management look good, and that 80k/year doesn't come out of IT's budget. Also the productivity loss can't objectively be measured or will just be blamed on the employee.
$90? Where can I get Adobe Acrobat for $90? Standard is 14.99 per month! I'd buy that shit all day if it was a one time fee of $90.
I worked for a small multinational (20.000ish employees).
The licensing department saved about 3 mio USD/year when they started going at license pinching.
No shit man. I just pay for my own. Ain't worth arguing with IT. Saved me a shit ton of time reliably converting and editing PDFs.
Yeah, this penny pinching on licenses is pretty absurd. I promise you that it hardly affects the bottom line.
I blame accounting. Although I also think that Acrobat's price is BS.
The best pdf reader for me is Okular. It is free, open source and certified with the German "Blauer Engel" for it's energy efficiency (as first software ever btw)
Blauer Engel
I don't think it's more "power efficient" than other pdf readers (Like Sumatra). It looks like the only reason it got that award is because it's German software. I'm saying that as Austrian. Super weird thing to give an award to.
How would they even measure it? Pdf readers use close to zero CPU. And using more or less RAM has nothing to do with power usage.
Presumably it means it has been actually audited by a third party for wasteful cycles, etc. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's cheaper to run than another app, just that it's cheaper than some objective standard.
I actually used to use DC a lot in my previous job (everyone had access), and having full edit functionality would help me in this one too. I've tried other options but I haven't requested a licence because the main thing I do nowadays is merge and split pdfs and there are other options for that. I only miss it occasionally.
@TheWaterGod
The only time I ever use acrobat is when I need to fill in the blanks of a PDF. Mainly because Preview.app on macOS does a terrible job of that
The basic pdf editing options you can find in most browsers (including edge) is more than enough for most people
If you have a mac.. well, preview is bloody amazing
Preview > Acrobat Reader. It's not even a contest.
Imo its not that hard to beat acrobat reader, i hate it!
"Hate" is a strong word for my feelings towards Adobe Acrobat reader. But I really don't like it when I start it to view a pdf, you know the thing it is designed to do, and I have a weird popup, then a toolbar on the right with tools I can't use cause they're premium and a toolbar on the left and a toolbar at the top underneath the standard windows toolbar. I just wanna view the pdf man (also weird snapping when you scroll over a page). Haven't found anything nice yet that just works. I don't want to use Edge or a browser to view them and mupdf is too light weight. Would really like an evince for windows
Okular is quite nice and I believe has a windows port (though I've not tried it). https://okular.kde.org/download/
Foxit reader, trust
Isn't friggin Edge better than Reader
You can view and edit in Firefox, use that and I bet the number of people who don’t need acrobat would jump to 99%
It makes me sad but Adobe is the only game in town for powerful PDF editing. It's a shame no open source project seems to be there.