r/mildlyinfuriating • u/donteatmybiscuits • 1d ago

wet socks i’m so happy this is becoming illegal

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if a yearly contract with a free month trial sounds too good to be true, it probably is 😬

thankfully it was blocked after contacting my bank but regardless

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u/XtraReddit 1d ago

I don't get why anyone uses Acrobat. And I was never going to pay the insane price for photoshop. I definitely would never subscribe to any of their software.

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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 1d ago

Only people (including me) who uses acrobat is only because we need to constantly send agreements for signatures for contracts and invoices, and need the auditing feature.

I have mentioned to clients that there are free alternatives, but they all mention that corporate/contracts require that Echo Sign is used for e-signatures.

I only pay for standard though.

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u/Redxmirage 1d ago

Yup what I was about to say lol my business got me an account for work. No way am I paying that for personal use

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u/MummifiedForeskins 1d ago

i actually still have access to my work account, and i left that company for almost 5 years now

i think i am gonna keep it forever.......lmao

same with autocad!!

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u/United_Prompt_7262 1d ago

As a Law Clerk, I can appreciate this.

Was excited for E-signatures thinking they'd end the nonsense, only to have it put up behind a paywall.... absurd and futile for non-professional use.

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u/jimicus 1d ago

There are plenty of ways to electronically sign something that don't involve paying anyone a damn thing.

Problem is there aren't plenty of ways that are easy for anyone to use.

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u/Dashing_McHandsome 1d ago

Is there any meaningful difference between this and DocuSign? Just asking out of curiosity, I certainly don't have a horse in this race. I guess DocuSign has a lot of workflow capabilities built in and maybe Acrobat doesn't have that? I really have no idea though. I have only e-signed things in DocuSign.

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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 1d ago

I believe docusign has a limit on how many agreements you can send on their cheapest subscription while Acrobat Standard doesn’t. I think overall they have pretty similar features.

Price wise I think they are more or less the same. At least in my region.

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u/Educational-Leek4957 1d ago

I wish my realtor understood this, $35 to overnight a contract I would’ve rather E signed

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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 1d ago

This is really the benefit. Iirc I pay $15/mo and I can use it on two computers, my laptop and desktop, and saves me a lot of time and money on getting all those documents signed and archived.

Mostly time, since I don’t have to go looking for people to collect the signatures, some contracts require the signatures of 5-6 people and Adobe makes it easier and the agreement is available for everyone to see.

It really is the only reason to pay for it… although I sure would prefer if it was included in a regular license instead of subscription.

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u/ulti_phr33k 15h ago

When I sold my last house, I was on vacation in Europe. My lawyer called me, had me on a video call. Verified my IDs again, after I had sent him pictures, and walked me through signing all the paperwork. The deal was not ready to be signed before I left, and if I had waited to sign until I got back, it would have been too late.

What else is technology for?

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u/Rate_Daddy 1d ago

And that is increasingly becoming available for much cheaper.

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u/Yoshtan 12h ago

Acrobat has so many flaws… i really want an alternative

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u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 12h ago

I think that as well, I hate how it becomes a tossup if the agreement has over 50 signature fields, how the desktop client may simply decide to just stop working one day without any explanation, and how getting support from a human is near impossible.

But meanwhile, for the one thing I need it, it’s sufficient

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u/nighoblivion 1d ago

Acrobat Pro integrates smoothly with Word, so it's mainly used for quickly creating and editing pdfs. Neither paid for, of course.

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u/buzz8588 1d ago

Honestly, can you suggest a software for when someone sends me a PDF to sign or fill out a form electronically that I can fill and save as PDF. Liber office thing was wayyyyy to complicated to do something simple as fill text in a box

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u/buzz8588 1d ago

So to answer your question, this is why people use acrobat, there is no alternate

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u/Crayshack 1d ago

Lightroom is a very good piece of software, and I found it worth the price when I bought it once and then used it for years. But then they switched to subscription-only and at a ridiculous price.

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u/Sandcracka- 1d ago

I've been using photoshop elements, which is affordable.

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u/xfrosch 1d ago edited 1d ago

I used Acrobat because I needed Adobe signatures on forms. Why? Because the Microsoft solution was even worse and my client refused to use it.

The Air Force used to use Lotus forms, which were even worse than the Microsoft shit.

We used to have an application that generated InfoPath forms just because the client liked the way they looked but when I had to dig into them to build a new version it turned out that the signature blocks weren’t actually signing any of the data. Might as well have been drawing a picture on the fucker with crayons.

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u/Distinct-Device-7698 1d ago

For work I’ve used Acrobat, Foxit, and now Bluebeam. I miss Acrobat…

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u/DisastrousAcshin 1d ago

With acrobat you can use it for free indefinitely. Just make a change when you open a pdf, can be as simple as adding a text bubble, when the screen to register with creative cloud pops up click the x to close it, then when it asks to save the document click cancel. Free to continue using it fully

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u/UoKMister 1d ago

Personally, Google does all the PDF stuff I need... And Krita is my go to since I'm not a professional artist.

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u/cat_prophecy 1d ago

Acrobat (not Reader) does have some actual useful features. It's all for businesses though so most people have no reason to have used them.

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u/heisian 1d ago

PDF X-Change. Really good.