it's amazing how I've been using Adobe Acrobat since I was like 9 and Adobe has worked hard to ensure that I'll still find the user interface to be totally inscrutable over all those years
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Try Photoshop its like learning a new foreign language. Completely insane menus. The very least you should be able to do is read the menu. Even on a huge monitor its in tiny type because of bloat. Skill grade options might help make it more bearable. #Adobehell.
I have always low key hated Adobe, I'm realizing: just occurs to me the inward groan I have every time I'm trying to open something I need from elsewhere and it opens up as a pdf.
And if you ever decide to cancel your subscription, Adobe will demand that you repay them for the discounts they’ve generously provided you over the years
It's amazing how "just let me read this pdf" is too much of an ask. How many sidebars with tools I can't actually use because I'm not using Pro do I really need?
I swear to God it didn't used to be like that, either! Back in like the Windows 95 days it was a normal fucking program that did normal things like open a pdf file and let you read it!
Like I've never been sure if I have an account or not because I've never been able to successfully sign in so never mind I'll just screenshot it thanks
The entire suite of Adobe software sucks. Back in the late 90s I self-published a magazine and it was like “InDesign or QuarkXPress”? And I’d use Quark every time. (Now I use Affinity Publisher). Of course Adobe is industry standard for the graphic design industry so pro work leads to Adobe shit…
This is so true. I've been using Photoshop since the mid 90s. but it's become so slow and difficult to run, even on my brand new laptop, that I uninstalled all of it last week. But I couldn't get rid of all of it, had to wipe the whole laptop clean and reinstall without it.
I was never good with it so never really used Photoshop but my personal "cemetery" of Adobe products is only rivaled by Google: Framemaker, Robohelp, InDesign, Dreamweaver, cold fusion... 🤦🤷😭
faine, this is so true and too funny. I laughed so hard reading it that I literally spurted my tea through my nose. Had to clean tea off my keyboard. I'm also convinced Adobe strives to make sure their products use 100% of your processor & memory, even while unopened and not in use.
Not just Acrobat! InCopy, InDesign (granted only use the latter once a month), Photoshop, Lightroom... it's like they change/move shite around then neglect to tell us about the changes.
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Those bring back so many memories.
Our first document sharing app was a fax machine.
It can make them, sure, but not on its own — a cloud service is involved (that doesn’t have all your fonts).