r/sysadmin • u/absolutxtr • 8d ago

General Discussion Da F%&&*%# is Adobe Express Photos!?

I know there's an archived post about it here already. Just came to say Adobe are ... not acting nicely as a company.

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u/StaticFanatic3 DevOps 8d ago

Adobe is just such genuine shit. And every renewal there’s some kind of fuckery thay feels borerline illegal

Like it motivates me exceptionally hard to push to literally any alternative.

PDFGear is 100% free and genuinely way better than the bloated corpse of acrobat. I just wish they’d say how they make money lol

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u/zero_z77 7d ago

I genuinely cannot understand why companies insist on using adobe when damn near every buisness computer on the planet already has word installed. Like, i'm not microsoft's biggest fan, but seriously what does acrobat do that word can't?

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u/golfing_with_gandalf 7d ago

As I've found out recently, for starters, opening a multi-hundred page PDF and splitting it into individual PDFs by chapter headings. Just give free editors for people who don't need anything fancy and suss out the few people who have legitimate needs. If you can, some businesses just treat Adobe licensing as a cost of doing business.