Adobe Acrobat

“a total of 8 distracting UI elements to promote AI summaries the instant you open a document”

“Adobe Acrobat and the associated format is a blight on human civilization”

“Adobe Acrobat does remember exact position in the document”

“it freezes, guess a lot of legacy code, etc”

“Way nicer than having to pay Adobe or some other shady software vendor for PDF editing ability”

“if left running, eventually I run into a bug where it stops saving files”

“Had to do it manually, but it pasted nicely into Excel.”

“It seems like the market is full of bloated (Adobe/foxit) or not properly working editors.”

“with a UI that looks as though it hasn't been updated since the Clinton administration”

“Adobe Acrobat Pro can convert 800MB of scanned pages into a 70MB PDF with searchable and copy-able text.”

“Heck Adobe Acrobat Pro OCR was essentially perfect 20 years ago.”

“I used this in college to scan textbooks and it worked really well.”

“Adobe Acrobat[3], Word, Excel, Office[4]”

“This actually broke the stuff I was working on and had to override it in my app manifest”

“some Adobe Acrobat update introduced a hang that results in “Acrobat won’t open.””

“Pull up a PDF in Acrobat and also in Edge. Now, at a glance, which is which?”

“the bug in it where it stops saving files after a couple of hundred have been so opened and re-saved”

“it's easier to rotate the view in something like Acrobat”

“Acrobat is bloated and filled with dark patterns that trick you into buying a subscription”

“when products get it wrong (MS Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Jira, HR platforms) then it's obvious features weren't composed well”

“Until Adobe drops XFA from Acrobat and forces these extremely silly people to stop, PDF is no longer PDF.”

“500MB+ bloatware that require a cloud login just to edit a single line of text”

“being able to publish a document that could be opened on multiple platforms was a big advanctage”

“puts 3-6 background processes on startup that are constantly doing something with my CPU and internet connection”

“If my law firm can't afford the $20/month for a copy of Acrobat Pro”

“the UI in acrobat is so incredibly poor that I completely understand when reaction gers screwed up”

“the redaction tool completely removes the content and any associated metadata from the document”

“Adobe Acrobat's redaction tools regularly feature in this sort of fuck-up”

“both adobe acrobat and the built-in preview app on mac can both competently redact documents”

“It's literally be done by thousands of lawyers/paralegals for decades.”

“Adobe Pro, when used properly, will redact anything in a PDF permanently.”

“Subscriptions, slow load times, and cluttered interfaces filled with AI features I never asked for.”

“You're effectively pigeonholed into using (PAYING for) Adobe's proprietary app and models”

“Acrobat for Windows (2025) requires 2,000 MB RAM and 4,500 MB free disk space.”

“Acrobat has workflows for all of them, and Adobe sells into a bunch of verticals”

“eventually Acrobat would reach a state where it would close a file and despite the name having been typed, not save it”

“there is a (reported) bug where after doing this several times, it stops saving”

“Really, the solution is to use old tools and spend your time and money keeping them working for you.”

“Look at how bad Adobe Acrobat got before they even started thinking about subscriptions.”

“Adobe Acrobat in particular takes multiple seconds to drag a window from the laptop screen to one of the attached displays when a PDF is open.”