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Will the social media ban impact Adobe Spaces, my favourite place to hang out in my favourite PDF viewing and editing app?*
(hexbear.net)
I boot up my Windows partition to be met with fucking Adobe Acrobat trying to sell me a paid plan. I need to dismiss that pop-up within Acrobat before I can close the whole thing and it looks like Adobe are pumping their content marketing into Acrobat itself.
Who is going to open a PDF then be like, "Okay, I guess I'll see what Hasan Minhaj has to say about fucking PDFs." I would need to be super bored at work to do that.
Fuck this shitty company and their bullshit bloated program. Sumatra all the way, the only reason I keep Acrobat around is to sign the occasional PDF
Don't get me started on Illustrator. I'm used to Photoshop after a decade but I tried to start using Illustrator for better vector work and for a laser cutter. Every useful thing is hidden. Everything you'll never use is up front in the menus. Esoteric keyboard shortcuts for tools you don't need. Basic features have no button or UI element associated with them. Bounding boxes and snapping works differently than Photoshop.
Then when it comes to Photoshop and pros using it for painting, there are now so many more cooler paint-emulating software out there. It makes PS feel extremely outdated with its brush control and having to figure out the right blend mode combination and that stupid triangle-line brush facsimile in the interface.