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Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Adobe Reader needing a 5€ subscription for rotating pages. Fuck techno feudalism.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my god I didn't even know about that one. Why?? Browsers read them fine

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reading a PDF is something, editing is a whole other thing. For a while I had an Adobe Reader subscription it was the only one I know of that can edit a pdf were I can delete entire columns from a table. (It was a PDF generated by shitty sales software I was using)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mostly edit PDFs to fill out documents. I know browsers can do that but they don't save the progress until you download (or I'm to stupid). Recently found out that Google Drive has a "fill form" PDF editor that works pretty well. But to my blood pressures detriment that works only on Android and not in your browser where I have a proper keyboard. Google fucking enrages me with their complete arbitrary shit sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sejda is really good for a fee PDF editor

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Adobe: “You need to pay us over and over to edit PDFs! Suckers!”
Inkscape: “Hold my beer.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Found this open source, docker based, self hosted app for editing PDFs a few months ago. Works well enough for basic operations the last time I tried it (though not sure if it can delete columns from tables): https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF

Figured I'd post the link here in case it helps you or anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I went with stirling. It has a lot of great features, but it’s lacking in actual editing. Adobe allows you basically to edit a PDF like a word file.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still have not found a competent (free) program on android that lets me mark up a pdf. They all claim to, but most (including fully-paid Adobe) won’t let you turn off finger marking. MFers, I have a stylus; I want my fingers to pan/zoom and my god damned stylus to make a line. Why is that so foreign?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Because most phones don't have a stylus.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The default Preview app on Macs can rotate PDFs by default...but if your PDF is a fillable form, it'll fuck it all up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Mac preview is surprisingly one of the best PDF viewing applications available on the market, it’s nearly as good as Acrobat. That’s really strange to me