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Adobe Is Cooked(malejandro.com) |
Just today for the purposes of ending my blog post in a good light I created the Software category in the directory, to list every alternative I found interesting to Adobe's offerings.
Here the direct link to it! https://martyr.shop/directory/#software
Personally, I use Affinity, Resolve, Darktable, Blender, and Figma. This pretty much covers any visual creative endeavor I have, very comfortably. As a side project, I'm creating patches for Wine to make Affinity work much better under Linux, because Microsoft is also smelling much like Adobe :)
I have to work with ISO-purchased pdf documents that are heavily DRM-controlled. I can only open them on two PCs with a plugin that only works in Acrobat reader. It is so closed and unusable.
In practice, I don't know why people are talking about PDF. In any recent time, I have only seen people using Adobe readers by accident and haven't heard about anybody using their editor for any reason. I know of some people that buy their editors, just not any that use it.
And I occasionally use Acrobat Distiller to convert old PostScript files to PDF, and to embed fonts into old PDF files created without embedded fonts, mostly because I already have it set up to find and embed almost every pre-OpenType outline font ever released by Adobe, Apple, or Microsoft, along with the OpenType fonts in Adobe Font Folio 11.1, and I've never gotten around to setting up all the fonts in Ghostscript.
The only Adobe product I use more than once or twice a month at this point is Photoshop, and mostly for things that almost certainly could just as easily be done in any number of other image editors at this point, or even ImageMagick. It's just that I've been using Photoshop since version 2 (not CS2 ca. 2005, Photoshop 2.0 ca. 1991), so it's comfortable.
Acrobat is an awful piece of software.