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Fuck, I hate Adobe. Can we please hate this company more? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Lussy@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Apple, Microsoft, Sony…it’s cool to hate them but can we please direct some fucking ire to this absolute pinnacle of piece of shittery that’s always on the frontier of the shittiest business practices in all things IT?

How has this compamy escaped a class action lawsuit by the entire population of the world?

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

The PDF is fundamentally a weird skeumorphic anachronism which should not exist

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

PDFs are great for certain legal documents and files that never need to be changed. It's the digital equivalent of laminated or glossy paper.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Stop doing PDF

Documents were not meant to be in the computer
Years of PDF yet no real world use found for digital paper
Wanted to make a document in the computer anyway for a laugh? We have a tool for that it's called an ODT
"Yes, please give me a signature with your mouse, please give me a document I can't edit" Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged