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Patrick Monahan
@pattymo.com

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

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@markcathcart.com

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Mark Cathcart
@markcathcart.com

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Cary
@caryshaffner.bsky.social

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.

Pete Rhom-BOO-erg 👻
@prhomberg.bsky.social

Have a little sympathy for the Acrobat team. If Adobe Animate is any indication, if they don't come up with new features for their PDF reader, they'll have to discontinue it and remove your ability to open PDFs ever again.

tomb of trash boy
@screaming.party

I really think a lot of engineering teams at older companies have been bullshitting new features for the better part of a decade now to justify their existence

Deadly Spoons
@deadlyspoons.bsky.social

1. Generate a pdf from an online platform. 2. Open in Acrobat Pro and see some useful tabular data you need. 3. Take any route you want to export that table into a spreadsheet. 4. View results in Excel. 5. Scream into the void.

CherHell
@cherhell.bsky.social

I do not want to have to reboot my computer every time you make an update to one of the 8,000 processes you have running in the background, monopolizing my RAM.