Exactly. I draft articles in Google Docs where the collaboration tools actually work, but to submit I have to switch to Word. Preview (on Mac) handles 98% on my PDF needs, but then there's some nonsense that "requires" Acrobat.
As someone else in the thread noted, other versions of software can and often do get you 98% of the way there, in terms of features/interoperability, but it turns out that remaining 2% is often mission critical, and that's where Adobe/Microsoft, etc get you if you are a working professional.
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