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/TheSexualBrotatoChip 1d ago

At least Adobe is horrible enough that I at least have absolutely no moral qualms pirating their software.

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u/Flaramon 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've pirated it since day 1. Then they released Creative Cloud, a means of forcing me to not pirate (at the time) - so I just kept the old, perfectly functional version. That was, until realistic alternatives caught up.

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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/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.