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Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop

Mark Cathcart

@markcathcart.com

for the longest time I thought information went to die in PDF's and then I discovered PDF-XChange Editor and Filelocator-Pro Seriously changed my whole approach. Ditch Adobe www.pdf-xchange.com

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5/2/26, 5:03 pm0 reposts5 likes

Mark Cathcart

@markcathcart.com

5 Feb

I now have over 17,000 scanned books and magazines on an SSD I can search in less than 5-seconds with a proper binary search

Cary

@caryshaffner.bsky.social

Thanks for that!

of course, it's not a promo, I paid for licenses, it's just radically altered my entire paperwork life.... Filelocator Pro was the gateway drug. Build Indexes for the types of information and the search globally or by topic - It' the quickest way I can find anything

Cary

@caryshaffner.bsky.social

5 Feb

It opened a PDF file and handled it like a charm. The document is 100s of pics of text, and I know damn well that Adobe is choking on it (now, but not before) because despite my not asking it to, its trying to parse the whole thing for AI vampirism purposes. Acrobat is now malware.

Mark Cathcart

@markcathcart.com

5 Feb

"Acrobat is now malware." and has long been. I have paid for two copies of it over the years, and neither now works and the license is not viewed as active/valid. Hence I dumper it 10-years ago.