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Monday, June 19, 2006

Reason #887 Adobe Software Sucks

I *absolutely hate* Adobe software. Every product I've ever used from them has made me beg for a competitive Microsoft counterpart. I never got up to speed on using Macromedia tools, and now I feel much better because they were sucked into the obnoxious vacuum that is Adobe's ability to make everything around them awful.

Today's complaint: why does Premiere Elements need 49MB of disk space to uninstall? Is this part of Adobe's scorched Earth initiative?

At least it's not as bad as my experience with their activation. That's a topic for another post.

6/19/2006 11:26:43 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Comments [2]

6/23/2006 4:46:52 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Sometimes I wonder if Adobe actually has a UI design department. It's almost like intentionally go out of their way to create an inscrutable interface. I have a copy of Acrobat 7.0 Standard, and trying to comment PDF files is an utter chore. I used the comment feature in Word XP the other day, and it was a joy compared to Acrobat's.

Anthony Giorgio

6/23/2006 9:37:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Acrobat is ridiculous. When they say you can "edit" PDFs, they mean you can "change a word here or there". I thought that $300 would get me the ability to move graphics, etc, but of course not.

Ed Kaim |edAT NOSPAMsharplogic dot com

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