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Acrobat 9.0
I can’t legally buy that anymore and I’d need to downgrade OS to use it anyways?
It runs on windows 11
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144554666031?_skw=adobe+acrobat+9+p...
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
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Re: Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
#172Personally I'm still impressed by Adobe's work there. They designed the PDF format but still manage to have the worst PDF reader on the entire market.
> They designed the PDF format but still manage to have the worst PDF reader on the entire market.
Hm. I hate Acrobat but it is still the best pdf program on Windows.
pdf.js is a parody if you have more than 3 pages.
Re: Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
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Acrobat also installs this weird service that tries to upload all the pdf files you open, regardless of what you do, you cannot shut it down or disable. I was in charge of the electronic document management system of a university, and kept having issues with deleting pdf files after opening them. The error said the files were still in use, and exiting Acrobat didn't solve the issue either. Apparently, the background…
> Acrobat is abusing a standard, portable document format, and trying to become synonymous with it, despite being very hostile against users What? They're just extending the portability by uploading the files to the cloud so you can view them from anywhere! /s I'm assuming/hoping that's all it is in whatever this uploading is. Did you find out why it was uploading files, and more importantly, where?
> Did you find out why it was uploading files, and more importantly, where?
Why ? PRISM. Where ? Who cares.
Re: Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
#174Edge is a decent pdf viewer, somehow adobe managed to make soemthing worse than edge
> Edge is a decent pdf viewer
YMMV. For datasheets Edge is a parody. i need a TOC in a 6000 pages document, damn it.