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Will the social media ban impact Adobe Spaces, my favourite place to hang out in my favourite PDF viewing and editing app?*
(hexbear.net)
I boot up my Windows partition to be met with fucking Adobe Acrobat trying to sell me a paid plan. I need to dismiss that pop-up within Acrobat before I can close the whole thing and it looks like Adobe are pumping their content marketing into Acrobat itself.
Who is going to open a PDF then be like, "Okay, I guess I'll see what Hasan Minhaj has to say about fucking PDFs." I would need to be super bored at work to do that.
Fuck this shitty company and their bullshit bloated program. Sumatra all the way, the only reason I keep Acrobat around is to sign the occasional PDF
I have use Adobe Reader to sign PDFs at work occasionally and feels like it's just gotten worse. No, Adobe, I don't want an AI summary of my document, and I definitely won't pay for your bullshit
Plus there's the way they charge creative types ridiculous amount of money for their software as a SeRvIcE.
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I've been meaning to post a rant on here about how dogshit adobe products are. For years I thought I was bad at using photoshop because I didn't study graphic design, but then I started using programs like Krita, Inkscape, and Davinci Resolve and discovering actual workflow. Then coming back to the adobe products I realised how poorly designed they are. Also, you'd think there would be some consistency between products in a suit. Not the fucking case with Adobe where the workflow to add stroke to text is different between programs and so are the keyboard shortcuts for basic commands. A loose cadre of FOSS products can maintain consistency, why can't the industry standard fucking suite?
There is no unity between "Adobe's" product line because Adobe doesn't make products. Like Autodesk, they buy competitors then fire all the people that made said product. They don't share work flows or tool patterns because they are all made by completely different people.
I learned Photoshop on PS2. Not Creative Suite 2, Photoshop 2 from 1991. I still use an ancient pirated copy of CS5. I've been trying to transition over to Krita, it has some great tools, but holy shit I hate the way they do layers. Maybe I'm just old as fuck.
I really wish there was a free vector suite that was as good as AutoCAD. I despise Illustrator. I can use it, I'm good at it, but only because I had to be. AutoCAD is hands down so much better at vectors than Illustrator. AutoCAD is an Autodesk product though and there are no human words that can adequately describe how much I hate Autodesk.
Many such cases. Even Microsoft Office was a series of acquisitions and their shit still sucks.
By far the worst for me was using Marketing Cloud with Salesforce. It is so poorly integrated and full of zombie features from before the acquisition it might as well be a separate product, not the marketing automation software offered by Salesforce themselves
Don't get me started on Illustrator. I'm used to Photoshop after a decade but I tried to start using Illustrator for better vector work and for a laser cutter. Every useful thing is hidden. Everything you'll never use is up front in the menus. Esoteric keyboard shortcuts for tools you don't need. Basic features have no button or UI element associated with them. Bounding boxes and snapping works differently than Photoshop.
Then when it comes to Photoshop and pros using it for painting, there are now so many more cooler paint-emulating software out there. It makes PS feel extremely outdated with its brush control and having to figure out the right blend mode combination and that stupid triangle-line brush facsimile in the interface.
Holy shit that's been the hardest part for me becoming a graphic designer this past year. I started my job knowing fuck all about graphic design, but all the command keys are different from InDesign to Photoshop to illustrator. It's garbage, but at least I don't have to pay for it.
Yeah, I’m not an artist or anything, but from I’ve heard the reason people pay for Adobe’s shit is because it’s the “InDuStRy StAnDaRd”, not because it’s good. If you don’t know the workflow of their software, you’re at a major disadvantage.