I worked as a graphics designer / DTP specialist more than 20 years ago. Back then Adobe products were really good. Photoshop was already a monopoly but there were different products for vector graphics and publishing (InDesign was a new contender back then), I tried them and went back to Adobe. It’s sad reading how they were able to enshitificate all their products so utterly and completely during that time.
What are you talking about? I love opening a pdf in Acrobat and having to wait for it to update and getting ads for bullshit inside the app once I accidentally close the pdf but not the app or something.
It’s hilarious how any webbrowser at all is a better PDF viewer.
How long before Adobe takes that down?
Also, Adobe is just rent seeking at this point.
Adobe made pdf and the worst software to read them.
A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth. This is what happened to his organs.
OP is presenting to Adobe.com with an inability to combine two PDFs and a lack of subscription fatigue.
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Just a reminder even PewDiePie stopped using Adobe products after 15 years of daily usage. He switched to GIMP, but that is not my main point. I found it interesting how he gets even charged for cancelling the service! Look, I’m not a PewDiePie fan and usually don’t watch his videos. But this one was pretty fun. The video with timestamp at the segment I was talking about: https://youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0?t=329
They tried that with me but my payment method was PayPal so I just deleted the subscription from my end and never paid them a penny more.
Before that I was happy to pay monthly for access whenever I needed because it wasn’t every month of the year - maybe 3-4 months per year. But nope - I’m a pirate for life now.
I found it interesting how he gets even charged for cancelling the service!
The explanation I found before is that you can pay for yearly subscription that is of course cheaper but still pay monthly. The cancellation fee is for the remaining unpaid months. Or something like that.
In his most recent video he complains that switching to GIMP was too difficult
I love Foss projects and I try to be as positive as I can be. There are several programs that while having a learning curve are actually usable, but gimp is so user hostile its insane.
How in the ever living fuck does it not have a god damn circle tool. Why the fuck can’t I rotate selections in real time, I need to precalculate the angle and pray it’s correct.
And those are just 2 things I encountered while trying to make a shitty image of pinkie pie as Dante Alighieri 2 days ago. I can’t imagine having to actually learn it to replace Photoshop for work.
And it’s so intentionally shitty, inkscape has a UX that’s at least 10 times better, 1000 times since they actually let you draw a god damn circle ffs.
Why would I draw a circle in a photo editing suite?
Maybe you need something different?
It’s actually a valid thing to need. If nothing else, circular masks are much easier to do when you don’t have to go and search for a png of a circle for a task that should’ve been over by the time you hit enter in the search bar. I understand GIMP is made with entirely volunteer work, and people shouldn’t be hostile towards anything FOSS unless given good reason, but there are very good reasons people cannot switch to GIMP.
So he switched to a different tool then? I didn’t watch the video yet, but will follow on doing soon probably.
Cathartic to read. So much potential and goodwill squandered to make the buggiest nonsense whose sole job it is to render text and graphics. Is morbidly funny to see how our collective 8 billion minds haven’t figured out this one thing, built an open source protocol, and moved on. The mind virus, because there is one just not the one that’s oft referenced, is allowing rent seeking monopolies to do a shit job repackaging and enshitiffying basic digital infrastructure. These ideas are so self evident.
We could have moved on to the next item in the list of solvable problems. But more likely than not Adobe will kick this dead horse for another half century as we all watch. The extraction model is at odds with humanity’s needs. May the realization of this be our eventual salvation.
How practical is using davinci fusion for adobe stuff, I lowkey love nodes for making amateur visuals and feel like they’d be useful even for stills over layers, im just not sure what people are missing that is typical for a photo worflow when using nodes meant for videos
I just haven’t used photoshop or illustrstor in ages so I have no idea what I’m missing out on, tried inkscape and gimp a little, both remind me of blender in that they are not intuitive and require watching some tutorials to figure out how to do anything
Which also goes for nodes, but adobe programs always felt a bit more intuitive and easy to just hop in and figure stuff out, like if you knew one itd be even easier to use another
Fuck Adobe. They need to open source everything they’ve ever built to atone for the incalculable damage they’ve done to the world of digital art.
In my opinion, one of the best things a person could do for humanity today is to join the ranks at Adobe with the sole intention of leaking every last line of source code. They bought up all of their competitors in the entire creative software ecosystem without so much as a peep from regulators. If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee. Literally, they are the landlords putting profits directly in the way of digital creativity.
Not only would forced-open-sourcing their IP warchest force Adobe to stop charging so much (because “clean room rewrites” of their cash cow apps would start appearing everywhere) it would force them to admit that they employ shit software engineers that pile spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code. They’re drowning in technical debt because they have no competition and have no reason to innovate. So they just tack bullshit on top and slap some marketing and AI hype on it and call it a day.
If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee.
This is giving Adobe too much credit. They suck, for sure, and are monopolistic and have set the industry back, but if people want to do creative things, there are manageable options outside of Adobe. Especially if you focus on alternative software for a particular niche (photography, illustration, compositing, etc).
They recently announced ‘by the way we’re deleting Animator forever’ and seemed genuinely surprised by the vicious backlash. That alone is reason to say, nope, you don’t own the software anymore. You just threatened an entire global industry, out of nowhere, for no gain. A civilized society would levy fines just for the fakeout.
Hi All!
We appreciate your valuable feedback! We’re always looking for ways to make Acrobat better, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your feedback with us.
We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change, however we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you are able to be more productive & get more out of Acrobat. With the new interface, we aim to:
Provide a simplified viewing experience that helps reduce clutter & optimise it for most used PDF actions that are relevant while viewing a document.Easily allow users to discover PDF tools they need by ensuring tools are intuitively grouped and a click away, For example, all tools that allow content, page & file level edits can be found under one action-based verb called “Edit”; tools that allow converting files to & from PDFs can be found under “Convert”; tools that allow filling & signing documents or requesting signatures from others under “Sign”. Most importantly, the new interface enables users to effortlessly move between different PDF tools to complete their document related tasks.For example, someone viewing comments in a PDF should also be able to easily edit the text of it without interrupting their workflow.A user can seamlessly perform page level edits such as reordering, inserting, extracting, rotating or deleting pages while editing content and/or commenting on the file.We would also like to highlight that we have exhaustively tested these changes with users over the past 12 months, keenly monitoring user behaviour & addressing top user issues before gradually rolling out the new interface to the Acrobat user base.
A point to note is that as we made these changes in the interface, we have ensured all tools & features that are currently supported, retain their familiar functionalities and workflows as they did in the previous version. We are proactively addressing any gaps or issues reported by users related to any break in current workflows.
We will follow up on this response with a detailed article explaining the changes, a guide to help familiarise you to the new interface, along with regular updates on upcoming changes.
Thank you once again for your feedback and do look forward to our upcoming releases!
~Anand Sri.
This reply is so out of place and I love it!
Genuinely TY, I wasn’t going to touch Adobe’s website if I didn’t have to. 😭
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