"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 04/10/2019 at 15:57 • Filed to: None

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Adobe Acrobat Professional has somehow deactivated itself. Huzzah. Now it is claiming that it doesn’t have internet with which to be activated.

It is lying.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 16:06

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I hate Adobe products direction with the subscription thing. I detest subscription software.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 04/10/2019 at 16:09

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Say what you will about AutoDesk products, I don’t think this is typical of them.

Adobe is such a concentrated clown show of suck sometimes it’s really something.

facw > Chariotoflove 04/10/2019 at 16:10

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It’s not great, but it’s the way everyone is going. I do subscribe to Office 365, which is a pretty good deal since it can be legally shared with family and comes with 1TB of cloud storage. But I’d still prefer to buy apps that aren’t going to put you through any huge authentication hassle.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Chariotoflove 04/10/2019 at 16:12

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Macs are dropping support for 32bit software this year, and even though my copy of CS6 is 64bit, there’s some secondary Adobe bullshit that is still 32bit. I’m just going to say screw it if it breaks compatibility. I’m not dealing with Adobe’s subscription BS. 

LOREM IPSUM > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 16:13

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Now YOU’RE the acrobat, jumping through hoops to unbugger it.

Thank you for calling and I understand your frustration. Can you please to go behind of your computer and make the sure that the power cable is plugged into a power receptacle, and then once you have plugged it in, please press the power button located on the front or possibly side of your computer. This will power your computer to on, at which time you are should be able to locate the icon for Adobe Acrobat Professional on your desktop. You must click it two times to launch Adobe Acrobat Professional. Have I answered all o f your questions in a satisfactory manner today?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > LOREM IPSUM 04/10/2019 at 16:14

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Chariotoflove > facw 04/10/2019 at 16:15

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I am stubbornly clinging to my previous versions of office, or using Apple’s office suite. Instead of photoshop, I’ve used Pixelmator for years now, and iStudio for layout.

RacingShark > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 16:15

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How many viruses passed around the internet because of Adobe products (Flash and Acrobat).

Acrobat is such crap. I can open, view, read and close a PDF in other free software LONG before Acrobat will even begin to load.

Chariotoflove > Honeybunchesofgoats 04/10/2019 at 16:16

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Amen. I’ll exhaust all other alternatives first.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 16:18

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Which version? There’s something called acrofix that may repair what you describe.

facw > Chariotoflove 04/10/2019 at 16:19

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I had a copy of O ffice 2007 (which I got from the MS store for like $25), but decided since it was End of Life and the cloud storage space was useful, I may as well do the whole thing for my family. Honestly, Google Docs probably gets you 80-90% of the way there, but it’s sometimes a pain not to have that last 10%.

Chariotoflove > facw 04/10/2019 at 16:23

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The only real problem i have ditching Office is Word.  I have colleagues who insist on using track changes for editing docs.  I hate track changes anyway. 

For Sweden > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 16:28

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No using alpha open-source software on a custom Linux distribution running on a 20-core CPU you built in your garage?

What is this barbarism?

benjrblant > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 16:28

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this sounds crappy, but at least it’s not network license issues with acad/vault.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/10/2019 at 16:35

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It’s standalone Acrobat 8 Professional, so no joy. It’s launching, merely insisting afterward it can’t activate.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden 04/10/2019 at 16:35

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Work barbarism.

benjrblant > Chariotoflove 04/10/2019 at 16:51

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‘but u keep usin it tho, so u shuld keep payin 4 it’ -adobe, autodesk, etc.

Chariotoflove > benjrblant 04/10/2019 at 16:54

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*triggered*

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > LOREM IPSUM 04/10/2019 at 16:55

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... wait, since when did Adobe start actually answering the phone instead of just playing a recording telling you to go to their website at aich tee tee pee colon slash slash adobe dot com slash documentation slash go fuck yourself slash CLOUD!!! slash help

WildlyMild > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/10/2019 at 17:27

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And this is why my father wont let go of his old kernel licences. Yep, plural. Last he told me he still had over a couple dozen.

Another industry standard ruined by new ownership or something to that effect.