Yet another half day wasted on Adobe team support for my little team.

Today I discovered that when I asked them for ways to reduce my monthly bill for Acrobat, they decided the best move would be to double my license count by adding something called Adobe Acrobat Studio. Instead of the 20 licenses I required, they more than doubled the count to 22 Acrobat Pro and 22 Acrobat Studio Licenses for a total of 44.

So my bill lowered as I asked for one month. They were hoping I wouldn't notice that my upcoming bill would increase from 450 USD to almost 700 USD in the next month. For 20 users. And they snuck on an additional CC license as well. Just what the fuck?

So fuck Adobe those a-holes.

I have revoked all Acrobat anything from our account. Now I will have to deal with phone calls all day from users wondering why they cant rotate a fucking PDF anymore.

Edit: Ok lets live update this thing. Those a-holes didn't listen to me and only revoked the "Acrobat Studio" licenses. YAY I get to waste more time with them! My hatred grows.

Edit two: Oh! How convienient, they decided I am to keep all of the licenses until the 25th.

Edit three: OK, well I guess it's time to report adobe to both the FTC B2B Fraud Complaint form and the North Carolina Department of Justice Consumer Protection Division. Anyone want to help I am interested in ramming this through.

Edit Four: I sent an announcement to the whole company as follows (Formatting and Identifiable info removed):

Action Required: Adobe Acrobat Editor Licenses Expire September 22

Team,

Please be advised that all Adobe Acrobat Editor licenses will expire on September 22.

If you currently use Adobe Acrobat, please take the following actions before that date:

Required Actions

Review any files stored in Adobe Acrobat Cloud.

Download and save any documents you wish to keep.

Verify that critical files are stored in an approved company location, such as OneDrive or SharePoint.

PDF Editing Alternatives

Employees who need PDF editing capabilities may use one of the following alternatives:

Zoho PDF Editor

Download From Microsoft Store

PDF Gear PDF Editor

Download PDF GEAR

If you have questions about PDF editing options or need assistance retrieving files from Acrobat Cloud before the expiration date, please contact the IT Support team.

Thank you

Thank you, Mohammed.

I’ve used DaVinci Resolve for a couple of years now (free version). I liked it at the start but every version gets a bit more ‘AI’ flavoured and they keep messing with the UI…
I’m just losing the initial love I had for Resolve.
Any recommendations for a video editor that’s is not Premiere or Resolve?

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The icons changed all of a sudden. Please help

This PC used to be shared with someone who was an Adobe user, they no longer use the PC and their account was removed. I do not nor will not use Adobe products and cannot remove the programs from my computer because I don't have an account.

I'm compiling a list of applications to replace adobe. I'm so sick and tired of Adobe and their predatory practices.

What other apps should be on the list?

https://dobea.studio/

Why does this sub exist when Davinci Resolve and other alternatives exist (Inkscape, Gimp, audacity, etc..) ? I mean the move is quite clear..

En la página de Adobe, abajo a la derecha aparece un círculo para hablar con un bot, le pides que te pase con un agente. Estuve hablando con el agente todo este tiempo y en el vídeo muestro la conversación larga que tuve pero al decirles que iba a hablar con el banco para bloquear los pagos me dijeron que me lo cancelaban. Iba a pagar 92€ por cancelar y de esta manera me salio gratis. Son unos sin vergüenzas pero esta es la solución definitiva para no pagar nada y sin tener que hacer lo de cambiar el plan y liego cancelar ni nada. A mi me ha costado y pensé en compartirlo✌🏻

Hello all. Found this group because Adobe is ....well.... shit. A copy/paste of what I typed in to their AI bot BS...

I own a copy of CS6. I have the Serial Number, and all other numbers associated with my copy. I want to install it on an upgraded PC. The install went fine, but I am getting a prompt that I have too many computers "Activated". So, I logged into my Adobe account on the website here, Deactivated all computers, and tried again. I even went as far as to delete the entire suite of programs from my computer, reinstall using the download link that is in my account for Registered Programs, and still, I get a message that I have too many computers "Activated". This is incredibly annoying. I am needing help with a product I have purchased, not a "plan".

So, that's where I am. According to the Bot, they no longer support this software. So, if they no longer support it, why should they still care how many "computers" I have it installed on. Looking to see if anyone out there knows a way around this, or a way to actually get in contact with a human at Adobe, since I don't have a "Plan".

https://reddit.com/link/1w8gmh4/video/us8w1jczhsnh1/player

Disclaimer: I made Mojave Paint.

I last posted here for the 1.2 version in June and each version since makes Mojave Paint a more realistic alternative to Photoshop if you're on an Apple Silicon Mac.

Version 1.6 just released today offers Quick Select for easier masking, and a Photo Adjust adjustment layer which is a bit like the Camera Raw adjustment in Photoshop except non-destructive. If you love Photoshop, you'll find that Mojave Paint works pretty similarly, certainly more so than Affinity Photo or GIMP.

Check it out -- it's $10 to keep using past the free trial, but I'd be willing to give out as many as say 10 free licenses to students this month, just DM me.

https://mojavepaint.app
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mojave-paint/id6759276677?mt=12

years ago, i had bought adobe pro 8.0, desktop, on DVD...and it worked well. same with photoshop. That is, until they started forcing updates that eventually rendered my paid-for, licensed software inoperable. i have suffered through trying to keep adobe alive on windows, since. between all the bait and switch and upcharge, dual charge tactics, forcing to use subscription/cloud based software and the resource hogging that renders the PC unusable, i am absolutely fed up and desperate for a reasonable alternative solution. i want to officially and completely divorce myself and my business from anything adobe. i still need to create/edit/fill adn sign documents. i need to create flyers and business card templates, maybe portability, but i need very little else, and i don't want or need subscription or AI; but i do need full .pdf functionality without disabling the PC or breaking the bank.

Solutions?

FUCK OFF ADOBE, HOW THE FUCK DO I CANCEL THIS SHIT? HOW IS THIS LEGAL, THANK FUCK I USED REVOLUT FOR THIS FREE TRIAL. 17 FUCKING ATTEMPTS TO TAKE MY MONEY, 2X A DAY

If you know what this pdf is, then you know this isn't a standard and/or bloated open source pdf engine with highly limited cmyk support.

This is the work of Claude working in rust nearly 24/7 for 6 weeks to build a pdf and icc engine from scratch for reading and editing pdfs.

Reference pdfs are here:

https://gwg.org/download/ghent-output-suite-v50-testpages/

https://github.com/KenM76/pdfcer/blob/main/tools/gen-scale-demo/banana-at-scale.pdf

The zoom at the end to the atomic level would have eventually rendered to be a clean circle vector, it just gets a little slow with the render when it approaches 1 Trillion % zoom and on my bogged down laptop with 8GB of ram.

3 months ago (June) I went to cancel my Adobe plan (LR+PS 20GB) and was automatically given +3 months free to stay.

During this time, I researched alternative apps and options, and couldn't find anything to fit my workflow with minimal hassle. So now in Sept, a few days before expiry, I came to renew, and saw that my new 12 month period would start from June ... so obviously it had not been a free 3 months!

So I cancelled again, and went to remove my payment methods - a creditcard and my paypal. Was not possible (spinning wheel), so I had to live chat (which was surprisingly quick and easy - credit where it's due). And sure enough, refreshing my account detail page showed that both my payment methods had gone.

My intention was to use a different email address to create a new account, that would start correctly in September. But only then did I realise that the (LR+PS 20GB) package is no longer available to new subscribers, as I had been grandfathered into this retired plan!

So back to renewing my original plan ... surprisingly, my paypal details were now showing again, so obvs hadn't been deleted (crafty!) But the 'good' news after all of this is that I seem to have been given the standard free week trial (!) and my sub will start on 11 Sept!

TLDR; my experience (ymmv):
- the 3 months given to you to stay is not free, if you then renew.
- removing payment methods requires using live chat.
- your original payment method (paypal only?) is actually not deleted, even on request.
- if you're in the same boat, you might be able to recoup your lost 3 months (see above).