Ask HN: Why is Adobe the only company capable of editing PDF files? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Why is Adobe the only company capable of editing PDF files?

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Post by yesbutnopdf » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 2:11 PM UTC

kwanbix wrote: post #6

taxcoder wrote: post #5

I spend a lot of time in Nitro PDF. The feature set I use is comparable to Adobe. We switched for better price with perpetual license and preferred interface (ribbon vs. whatever Adobe's is called). https://www.gonitro.com/

Wow. Ribbon and preferred interface in the same sentence. By the way, NitroPDF is great.

Worked at nitro. Looking like MS office with the ribbon gui sold a lot of licenses. Users don’t want to learn Adobe’s ui.

Re: Ask HN: Why is Adobe the only company capable of editing PDF files?

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Post by aaron695 » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 3:20 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Why is Adobe the only company capable of editing PDF files?

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Post by taxcoder » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 3:23 PM UTC

kwanbix wrote: post #6

taxcoder wrote: post #5

I spend a lot of time in Nitro PDF. The feature set I use is comparable to Adobe. We switched for better price with perpetual license and preferred interface (ribbon vs. whatever Adobe's is called). https://www.gonitro.com/

Wow. Ribbon and preferred interface in the same sentence. By the way, NitroPDF is great.

We spend our days in a Microsoft world, the ribbon is familiar. I'd be happy if it was more keyboard driven but most others would complain.