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Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by out-of-time »

More than ever I feel vindicated in the decision to avoid non-free software. It's limiting of course but in tandem with a fully reproducible system it is guaranteed that my current workflows will always be available... I can't imagine doing anything in software without that foundation.

The recent news about Adobe removing Pantone colors from existing projects is even more egregious:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/1/23434305/adobe-pantone-su...

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by qubex »

nabaraz wrote: post #29

I have been actively moving away from Adobe products. Recently purchased Affinity Photo to replace photoshop and I use Preview (on Mac) for all pdf work.

I’ve ben actively avoiding Adobe for about a decade now. Affinity is great. Adobe needs to learn to respect its users and not take them for granted while feeding them crap.

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by SllX »

qubex wrote: post #79
marban wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Preview.app — Underrated since 2001.

I distinctly remember a precursor of some sort being available on NeXTStep 3.0 in ‘95 or thereabouts.

I don’t know how much code is still left from back then but it’s the same application as NeXTSTEP’s, although strangely Mac OS X Ventura dropped support for rendering PostScript (there used to be an instant conversion process that would render the PostScript as a PDF even after Apple moved to Quartz from Display PostScript).

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by nip »

Shameless plug: for anyone looking for an alternative, I’ve been building SimplePDF.eu [1] on my free time for last couple of years or so.

The editor is entirely free to use and works locally (nothing gets sent to my server: neither the document you load nor the data you fill in [2])

[1] https://simplepdf.eu

[2] https://simplePDF.eu/privacy_policy

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by nabaraz »

uniqueuid wrote: post #31
SllX wrote: post #5

For anyone on a Mac: all of these features in the screenshot are free with Preview. I assume OP is not, but something people should keep in mind.

Stuff people don't know about Preview.app: - Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N - Split, re-arrange and merge PDF documents. Just drag pages into the sidebar - Sign documents. Click the annotation button in the menu bar, sign either on touchpad, ipad or hold an ink signature on paper into the webcam. - OCR (new with macOS ventura). Just click/drag/double-click on text in…

I recently had to crop a pdf, Export pdf to png, crop and save as pdf. All from Preview app.

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Post by [deleted] »

yamtaddle wrote: post #61
uniqueuid wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stuff people don't know about Preview.app: - Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N - Split, re-arrange and merge PDF documents. Just drag pages into the sidebar - Sign documents. Click the annotation button in the menu bar, sign either on touchpad, ipad or hold an ink signature on paper into the webcam. - OCR (new with macOS ventura). Just click/drag/double-click on text in…

It's legit one of the reasons I'll have trouble ever leaving macOS. I've not seen anything as good at its particular niche. It's the perfect intersection of lightweight, snappy, reliable (so many other PDF tools are crashy or prone to getting in weird, broken states), and featureful.

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Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by wentin »

Adobe Document Cloud has some nice features that are unique in the market, and are worthy being paid features. But sadly they are hidden under a sea of very basic feature like this one, totally unworthy of a paid feature — this make the good feature less noticeable.

One of the paid feature that I really like is fluid PDF on mobile screen. Most PDF is not very readable on mobile screen, it needs pan and zoom. The fluid feature make the layout become more HTML-like and fluid, and adapt to mobile screen size. That is a feature to monetize. not rotating pages!

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