Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.

  • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    This reminds me of my all time favourite lost redditor that asked for a Adobe Acrobat alternative on r/freeuse (which is not about free software but very nsfw). They were extremely helpful though.

    • bpm@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      There was apparently a significant population of German car mechanics on /r/BBW as well.

      lost redditors was great fun, I remember that /r/Burial (about the musical artist) used to keep a running count of confused morticians that would wander in.

  • Paulemeister@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    “Hate” is a strong word for my feelings towards Adobe Acrobat reader. But I really don’t like it when I start it to view a pdf, you know the thing it is designed to do, and I have a weird popup, then a toolbar on the right with tools I can’t use cause they’re premium and a toolbar on the left and a toolbar at the top underneath the standard windows toolbar. I just wanna view the pdf man (also weird snapping when you scroll over a page). Haven’t found anything nice yet that just works. I don’t want to use Edge or a browser to view them and mupdf is too light weight. Would really like an evince for windows

  • Soulfire@blimps.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    @TheWaterGod
    The only time I ever use acrobat is when I need to fill in the blanks of a PDF. Mainly because Preview.app on macOS does a terrible job of that

  • mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    The best pdf reader for me is Okular. It is free, open source and certified with the German “Blauer Engel” for it’s energy efficiency (as first software ever btw)

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Blauer Engel

      I don’t think it’s more “power efficient” than other pdf readers (Like Sumatra). It looks like the only reason it got that award is because it’s German software. I’m saying that as Austrian. Super weird thing to give an award to.

      How would they even measure it? Pdf readers use close to zero CPU. And using more or less RAM has nothing to do with power usage.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Presumably it means it has been actually audited by a third party for wasteful cycles, etc. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s cheaper to run than another app, just that it’s cheaper than some objective standard.

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The basic pdf editing options you can find in most browsers (including edge) is more than enough for most people

    If you have a mac… well, preview is bloody amazing

  • PhreakyByNatureEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I actually used to use DC a lot in my previous job (everyone had access), and having full edit functionality would help me in this one too. I’ve tried other options but I haven’t requested a licence because the main thing I do nowadays is merge and split pdfs and there are other options for that. I only miss it occasionally.