edit: The adobe readers are all abysmal dogshit tho, lmao. Lord have mercy you want to use it to open the PDF boarding file you use to scan the barcode to get to security, it’ll ask you if you want to AI summarize the document, why don’t you log in too, why don’t you get more premium features. Brother, it’s a boarding barcode, stfu.
Based on zero research or familiarity I’m going to confidentley declare adobe is full of shit and is maintaining undocumented behavior to stifle 3rd party pdf apps.
PDF is an ISO standard now. Adobe can do whatever they want with their own fucked up files. Every other reader and writer are about ISO compliance. So do the standard libraries for all the programing languages used to generate PDFs to being with, like for example, when you ask you bank for a statement and they e-mail you a PDF. The vast majority of PDFs are programmatically generated anyway.
It’s true that Adobe products don’t care about standards compliance, but that’s a skill issue, you don’t need to use Adobe products. I’ve been using Linux since I can remember and I work with PDFs a lot. I don’t know what people want to be frank. At the end of the day the format that’s “winning” is none of this stuff, it’s Google Docs. People aren’t using files to begin with.
I dread my quarterly opening of acrobat. I use it for one thing four times a year and it’s such a waste of time and I’m trying to find a way to use a different program. The rest of the time I use PDF X-change which does like 99% of what acrobat does except it runs like a normal fucking computer program
PDF became non-proprietary in 2008
edit: The adobe readers are all abysmal dogshit tho, lmao. Lord have mercy you want to use it to open the PDF boarding file you use to scan the barcode to get to security, it’ll ask you if you want to AI summarize the document, why don’t you log in too, why don’t you get more premium features. Brother, it’s a boarding barcode, stfu.
Based on zero research or familiarity I’m going to confidentley declare adobe is full of shit and is maintaining undocumented behavior to stifle 3rd party pdf apps.
PDF is an ISO standard now. Adobe can do whatever they want with their own fucked up files. Every other reader and writer are about ISO compliance. So do the standard libraries for all the programing languages used to generate PDFs to being with, like for example, when you ask you bank for a statement and they e-mail you a PDF. The vast majority of PDFs are programmatically generated anyway.
It’s true that Adobe products don’t care about standards compliance, but that’s a skill issue, you don’t need to use Adobe products. I’ve been using Linux since I can remember and I work with PDFs a lot. I don’t know what people want to be frank. At the end of the day the format that’s “winning” is none of this stuff, it’s Google Docs. People aren’t using files to begin with.
I dread my quarterly opening of acrobat. I use it for one thing four times a year and it’s such a waste of time and I’m trying to find a way to use a different program. The rest of the time I use PDF X-change which does like 99% of what acrobat does except it runs like a normal fucking computer program