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.
That’s hilarious.
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.
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?
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.
I know this is more sarcasm rather than serious justification, but sadly I agree that it’s all true.
It’s definitely not sarcasm
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.
$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.
It’d probably $90/year, not a one-time fee. Which is still a lot better than monthly, but probably only available to businesses/bulk licence buyers
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)
Evince for me. I can print off pages from songbooks I have in e-book form. Evince don’t care about no drm
“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
Foxit reader, trust
Looks like Foxit is freeware with a subscription option for enterprise deployment packages. Not ideal.
Maybe Okular? It’s from the KDE project and it’s on the Windows store.
Foxit has a subscription plan if you need advance tools, it’s perfectly fine (and customizable) if you want to use the standard plan… No ads, no popups, nothing except your pdf and a lot of features you can use for free. You should give it a try, it’s really good.
Ehhh. Still proprietary. I’d rather use open source tools, even if it takes a slight functionality hit.
Try pdf xchange
Try Sumatra, PDF24 and or Foxit Reader. There are plenty of alternatives for a pdf reader, and a lot of them are even faster than acrobat!
There’s also SumatraPDF which seems pretty similar to Evince, though I don’t know the latter
I’ll second SumatraPDF. Lightweight, easy.
Wondershare PDFelement is pretty respectable.
Okular is quite nice and I believe has a windows port (though I’ve not tried it). https://okular.kde.org/download/
It’s annoying AF. But there is an option in the settings to open as it was last closed. So open a file, minimize all those toolbars, save the file, close the file, open a file. Should be good to go.
“Go to Edit > Preferences > Documents, and then select Remember current state of Tools pane.”
Yeah, you could of course use Firefox or another cheap or free option. Regardless, it all boils down to people don’t like change. The cost of adobe is very high and staff doesn’t realize or care. Quantify the bottom line to superiors and get muscle behind your change order.
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%
Please don’t give Adobe money.
They’re not Oracle. But they’re trying.
Adobe is run by the Ferenghi. They studied the rules of acquisition.
May I recommend SumatraPDF? It’s so fast at loading and rendering the document
It’s not a PDF editor though. I love Sumatra to death and will attest it loaded my 1000+ page college textbook in an instant. Also auto divided the chapters and subsections into their own table of contents and I could Ctrl+F the entire textbook in seconds.
Unfortunately it still can’t sign and edit PDFs.
Big fan of Sumatra.
+1 for free and open source software, this program just works
LibreOffice Draw does nice editing as well, I’ve just learned that recently
And PDF Arranger is very simple for rearranging, rotating, inserting, removing and rotating pages
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.
It’s not open source but I think foxit is even more powerful if we are only talking about pdf editing.
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Foxit was good several years ago - no clue about recently
It’s just as garbage nonsenseware as Adobe. I installed it recently on my friend’s PC and holy shit, whatever happened to that small program. It went to the bin and Sumatra was installed instead.
I saved the last version before they took out the pdf printer. Still not an editor. Used bluebeam for that. Though that was also bought out and being run into the ground.
Not even editing them. You can do that without Acrobat. It is very helpful if you are designing forms though.
Preferably don’t even use Reader, but something else like Sumatra. Suddenly you won’t even need to upgrade the hardware.
Most people can manage with the embedded PDF reader from their OS or the web browser nowadays.
Yes but everything is stuffed with telemetry, and web browsers are bloated behemoths. So on Windows at least something lightweight like Sumatra rules.
Look, say what you will, but I kinda like using Edge as a pdf reader. Its out-of-the-box PDF markup features really speak to me, I don’t know why.
