I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)

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# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Srdjan February 14, 2005 @ 4:41 am

Rick,
that makes two of us! Acrobat is such a pig...

I removed Acrobat from all my machines and installed Foxit PDF Reader (less then 1MB) - and never looked back.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Srdjan

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Gabe February 14, 2005 @ 4:54 am

Microsoft did try to come up with a new format. Remember Microsoft Reader? It was a direct competitor to PDF, but now one used it. I think one of the problems is MS, being the controlling type, won't license acrobat from Adobe. Can you imagine how cool it would be to generate PDFs from Word or the have support for PDF output in .NET? Corel (WordPerfect) has had support for years, and it is VERY NICE. OpenOffice does as well. Don't hold your breath for MS to come around and embrace that standard. If everyone could generate PDF docs, why would anyone buy office (I'm sure that's there reasoning)?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Srdjan February 14, 2005 @ 6:33 am

Gabe,
I agree with your point, it would be great to have MS Office read and produce pdf files...

But, there is a separate complaint here; and that is in regards to software quality. Acrobat Reader is a definition of bloatware. It is too big for a simple functionality it provides, loads too slow, it stays in memory once loaded (not everybody has > 1GB on their machines), has a broken install utility... Amazing for for a peace of software that we all take for granted.

Srdjan

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Kevin February 14, 2005 @ 6:52 am

Agree with comments about Acrobat being huge piggish bloatware. However I recently did (almost) the same thing and the auto uninstall didn't happen to me.

I have Acrobat 5.0 FULL installed and had installed the 6.0 Reader and hated it but I never uninstalled it. Didn't bother because IE kept loading PDF's in 5 even though 6 was installed. Tried changing it but it seemed like everytime I used 5 it would automatically make itself the default again.

I upgraded to the 7.0 Reader recently and it removed the 6 Reader references but left the 5.0 Full still installed and functional. Maybe difference was that I still had 6 reader installed, or maybe there was some obscure checkbox to remove old versions or something during custom setup. I can't remember...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Brian Vander Plaats February 14, 2005 @ 10:25 am

One gripe I had recently about Acrobat (reader), is that you can't convert a PDF document to an image. If wanted to do this without the full version of Acrobat, I could only find shareware programs to do so. And who wants to pay for what seems like a straightforward function? I can see charging to put a document in the pdf format, but why restrict converting it to a different format? I already have word processing, page layout and graphics tools, what do I need the Writer for if I don't plan on distributing pdf files? Since everything seems to come on pdf format these days, not being able to export can be a real pain.

# Is .mdi the MS version ?
by Jamie Osborn February 14, 2005 @ 6:54 pm

Office 2003 comes with the "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" printer driver which produces .mdi files.

I assumed that this was the new MS take on document generation.

The viewer is kinda basic at this time but it is a lot quicker than Adobe !

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl February 15, 2005 @ 3:26 am

Gabe, I think Acrobat is an open format. There's no licensing to generate PDF output. At least not the basic display output. Not sure about the editable formats.

Jamie, yeah the Office Printer Driver actually is pretty nice. Primarily it's fast and I actually think the viewer is nicer to use. Main problem of course is nobody uses it. But this is one of those cases of why is everybody using the Adobe reader?

The main thing Adobe has going for it is cross platform, something that Microsoft will never do.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl February 15, 2005 @ 3:27 am

Oh if you are using Acrobat don't forget to run PDFSpeedup (www.acropdf.com) - it will drastically speed up Acrobat on load.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick L February 22, 2005 @ 10:36 am

Me too! I hate seeing it "load" everytime! And the search sucks! And the format sucks!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Mike Moore February 23, 2005 @ 2:44 am

Ditched it too - when I found myself viewing a PDF that I could not save to disk or print, thus taking "read only" to a new dimension. This irritant had to be thought up by an IT geek.

I found GhostScript and Ghostview, that together read any PDF I can find, while unhinging stupid security thought up by sphincterheads.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Mike

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Barry February 25, 2005 @ 7:31 am

As a IS Manager, I hate Adobe products period. Their licensing scheme is despotic. They do not offer a network license model. All of our users need to use Adobe software once and awhile, but not enough to justify the cost of a license for every PC. So we have a few shared workstations, and I waste time installing and uninstalling for the users. AUtodesk, ACDSee, Sketchup, all have network icenses and we use them. I am always trying to steer my users away from Adobe, but they demand it. We do use Bluebeam Pushbutton PDF to create AutoCAD pdf's though.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jamie February 28, 2005 @ 12:57 am

Informative Graphics has come up with their own format (CSF)which is more compact and accurate than PDF. They also make a viewer for PDF and TIFF that is free and fast - http://www.infograph.com/brava-viewer.htm.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Joe March 02, 2005 @ 11:37 am

Wow is that http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ slick.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Uncle Bob March 07, 2005 @ 5:50 am

The latest Acrobat reader is a pig, true dat! Photoshop is a pig. So I use Gimp (http://www.gimp.org) which is an open source replacement for Photoshop (not to mention it works better and is free--an $800 discount).
To read and write (yes, write) pdf files, I use OpenOffice, a replacement for --yeah, Microsoft Office. Does everything MS Office does, and more.
So I don't have to touch Adobe or Microsoft to do anything. Don't like PageMaker? Too expensive? Try Scribus--open sources, free and better. Also effortlessly exports PDF files.
If you've tried doing this in Quark, you're probably developing a bloody stool by now.
There are a host of other pdf readers/writers that are freely available over the internet. Try searching for "open source" and "pdf".
Cheers,
Uncle Bob

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jamie K March 09, 2005 @ 1:12 pm

WHY OH WHY CAN'T ADOBE FIX THIS PIECE OF CRAP!

I was duped into downloading Reader v7.0 by the promise of a lightning fast program...

Lightning fast? More like the thing was struck by lightning...what a dog.

I'm not going to use any A-dopey products from now on.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by scurbro March 12, 2005 @ 3:26 pm

I'm totally with you all the way. In fact I'm thinking of putting up a webpage about it. To start I googled "hate adobe reader" and found this page. It's so ridiculous that the brainless sheep of the world continue to take what's fed to them. PDF is in fact an open format and their are many free implementations out there. I use Foxit.

I might also add I feel the same way but not as strongly about winzip. Again, there are many free implementaions out there, like 7-zip, IZArc and Freebyte zip. Although winzip isn't nearly as bad as Adobe reader. Mainly I'm getting tired of the nagware.

Cheers!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by rudy March 14, 2005 @ 12:55 am

yep , use Foxit to view and use http://www.pdf995.com to make PDF's.

pdf995 is a great free PDF printer. IMHO pdf printing is by far the easiest way to create PDFs. i have yet to see anything it can't print properly to a pdf.

all the best -rudy

# I like Acrobat, but not Adobe's pricing
by Bill March 14, 2005 @ 2:31 pm

Acrobat is used a lot in the legal world, not enough in my opinion. Many courts are now accepting Acrobat documents for electronic filing. Unfortunatley some are taking paper in, scanning and saving as single page TIFF files. Now that's a pain, having to go through several mouse clicks to get each page of a 60 page complaint.

A useful tip -- if you don't want the extensions to load, hold down the shift key when you start up acrobat.

I do agree that the pricing is nasty, but I would not expect any better from Microsoft.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Urp, I'm feelin' sick - too much Adobe for dinner March 20, 2005 @ 10:44 pm

The problem is not PDF, it's Adobe. PDF is a good format for cross-platform printable documents. That's what it was made for, and it's good for that. But the latest slew of porkware from Adobe is a crock of steaming lard.

After installing the latest Adipose Reader (65 megs!) and watching it take 45 seconds to open an 85K one-page PDF, I have sworn off Adobe for PDF. PDF is currently open, but Adobe is trying hard to change that by packing more and more useless bloatware crap into their PDF creation tools. The strategy is to marginalize anything but Adobe products, the theory being that the unwashed masses will assume something's wrong with their reader software when they can't open the latest v7.0 file that uses 3D VRML menus or gives off odors while viewing or whatever the latest useless crapware feature of the day might be.

There's no way all the new functionality in Reader 7 has been fully tested, and it's only a matter of time until someone finds a way to exploit it for some malicious purpose. So no Reader 7 on any of my workstations. I'm evaluating alternatives, and I will NOT be going back.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Dieter Dost March 28, 2005 @ 4:15 am

I use a fanless Epia-based mini-itx computer (1 GHz, 1G RAM) for all internet connections. It is fast enough to open 15 browser windows at the same time even while other applications run in the background. When I accidently click on a link to a pdf-file I can go to the bathroom or fix me a cup of coffee since opening acrobat reader 6 takes MORE THAN 2 MINUTES on my poor little computer. Mouse freezing included. That's why I hate this program too....

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Mark April 01, 2005 @ 6:54 am

You could always try switching to a Mac - PDF is its native file format with a viewer and writer built into the OS, and not an Adobe product in sight!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by nin April 15, 2005 @ 5:35 am

Adobe reader totally went nuts on me one day - just up and started jamming my computer every time I would try to load a pdf file. I uninstalled and reinstalled it countless times with no change in the jamming process. It slowed my computer significantly until I finally just completely removed any hint of it from my hard drive. I too installed FoxIt and have had absolutely no problems since then. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has issues w/Adobe.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ryan April 15, 2005 @ 7:40 pm

Why don't you try something that works, like Ghostscript + Ghostview. I can't believe no one knows about this. Might be a Linux thing I guess.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by nin April 16, 2005 @ 10:15 am

Yeah, it may seem strange to you that know one knows about these other pdf readers, but for lay people like myself (or my parents for that matter), Adobe seems like it is the only one that exists. It has almost formed a sort of monopoly and honestly, that kind of upsets me.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by wvl April 18, 2005 @ 7:26 am

www.cutepdf.com is a free pdf printer driver without adds alternative to so called free pdf995 with adds

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Sebwin April 20, 2005 @ 3:42 am

Quote:"I’m really surprised that Microsoft or somebody hasn’t come up with its own format for document display"

I heard a rumour longhorn will come with some sort of .pdf similar output-a-matron. Which is one of the reasons adobe decided to branch out/buy macromedia etc

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Troy May 10, 2005 @ 8:13 am

I've been using Cutepdf Writer for a year or two now and it's excellent for creating PDF's from Word or any other program for that matter. Its as easy as clicking the 'print' button...

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

And, its free!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Nick May 11, 2005 @ 2:53 pm

I just popped in because I typed "I hate adobe acrobat into google." Let me tell you what I hate most... I'm surfin along having a nice day and then BAMMMMMA SLAMMMM DIE DIE DIEIIIEEIEEIE!!!! You open a freaking adobe PDF file link list on the TOP of google search results instead of ANY normal file... someones misplaced TOS or some _BS_ that could have easily been in HTML format (what is the advantage of having a PDF file??? none and what was that you say charlie? or yeah NONE.), so then UP pops "ADOBE ACROBATE" to the rescue and now your whole flow is ruined because it take 3 and half hours min. to load, thats on a good day. Adobe acrobat SUXXXXXXX. To this day there is nothing I can do in Acrobat and PDF that I could not do better and faster and cleaner in HTML or word. THank you.

# An alternative solution
by Jo June 12, 2005 @ 10:58 pm

hi - I work for a company that is currently building a software solution to go into direct competition with Adobe, by creating a new standard for distributing secure documents. I have read a lot about what you guys don't like about Adobe - but if there was an alternative software solution that did everyting you wanted it to do - then what would it be?

# RICK STAHL YOU ARE THE MAN!
by adil June 15, 2005 @ 6:20 am

Rick Stahl right on the money, THIS IS A PEICE OF CRAP THAT I HAVE ALLWAYS HATED, I NEEDED TO VIEW A PDF DOCUMENT AND I DIDNT HAVE ADOBE ON MY COMPUTER (WITH GOOD REASON!!) SO I GO TO THEIR SITE AND I SCREAMED IN ANGER!!! THE BLODDY THING WAS 12MB!!!@##@#@!@! AND THATS JUST THE READER!@@!##@

ADOBE HOPE YOU GO FRIGGEN LEAVE THE INTERNET ALONE WITH YORU CRAPPY PRODUCTS YOU EVIL EVIL PROGRAM..

BUT WAIT IM NOT FINISHED, THEN I LOAD THE DOCUMENT AND STARTS DOWNLOADING A FONT THAT IT NEEDS, SO IT CRASHES THE WHOLE THING, AND I HAVE TO DO AN ERROR REPORT LIKE 4 TIMES (LET MICROSOFT KNOW THAT ADOBE SUCKS!!!)

YOU SUCK ADOBE ACROBAT, I CANT EVEN READ ANYTHING IN THIS PEICE OF CRAP@#!!@#!@!#@ ITS SO AWKARD, SO UGLY, SO BLODDY CRAP@!#@!!@#

BE GONE ACROBAT, YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Schneider June 25, 2005 @ 1:05 am

I agree Adobe Acrobat is *utter toss*. I especially love the 7.0 plugin for IE ... What I love about it is the way that it frequntly hangs when loading a file, and manages to lock up every other instance of IE! Genius! Another good feature is the way Acrobat always needs to be forced to close when the system shuts down.

You only have to take a quick look at the Adobe SDKs to see why their software is so dodgy. Its all built on top of 15 year technology and APIs. As fragile as a pack of cards. Doubt if any of their software has ever been rewritten/refactored. Just look at the stability of something like Premiere... lol.

Whats so amazing is no one is giving Adobe any competition!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by ADOBE_HATER June 29, 2005 @ 8:07 am

I used to work for Adobe and i can tell you that the company SUCKS big time , not only their products.
the managers in particular are full of shit and totally incompetent.
I have now resigned (THANK GOD) and wish all the worst to that FUCKING COMPANY.

p.s. ACRO and PHSP not only are crappy softwares but they are also extremely expensive....if you think that the actual cost for Adobe of the software on a CD is only a couple of $

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Another adobe acrobat hater July 08, 2005 @ 8:01 pm

If I can avoid Adobe completely, I do. I just use google's cached text to read a document online, and say, "screw it". I don't waste my time waiting for Adobe to load.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Adobe bullshit for amators July 21, 2005 @ 1:16 pm

To much publishers exagerate the importance of the form above the time.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Steevg July 26, 2005 @ 1:47 am

Reading all this with great interest! I've used Adobe products in video editing for many years, and agree their software, support & idea's are not good!
But now I've got a new problem. I'm running an Applemac & OSX! The whole print/graphics industry runs pdf files for EVERYTHING!
But adobe seems to have this sewn up . . .. or so it would seem! When I first came accross this site, I thought my day was made! But after visiting some of the "Alternate" pdf software sites, I find that so far, none of them support OSX!
I need to get an eBook written and made into a suitable file for downloading, and am having BIG problems getting the links working in "Word" when I convert to pdf using the Mac "Print/Save as PDF" facility. Does ANYONE have any idea's either how to get these links/bookmarks/hyperlinks working using this way of conversion, or is there another OSX compatible program which will do the trick?

Thnx in advance!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Patrick August 03, 2005 @ 6:16 pm

I haven't been able to read a PDFs since installing 7 on my system. It just freezes up the browser and my cooling fans kick into high gear.

At first one would think this guy [page moderator] has a bug up his arse...however, if you are going to install Acrobat Reader 7 on your system, or already have, you too will shortly find out how insane this program is.

p.s. I have Adobe Audition on my machine and it is a great program. I did pay the price for this program and think it is worth every penny (as a media content creator). I don't hate Adobe but sure do hate Reader 7 (and have to wonder "what were they thinking?").

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Patrick August 03, 2005 @ 6:32 pm

One more thing...I just put that foxItReader on my machine (and took Adobe Reader off). Wow! This loads up FAST and is nice and clean - can't say whether this will be my last PDF reader but now I am not going back to Adobe's crappy reader, that is for certain.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Time to level the playing field August 06, 2005 @ 8:51 am

The fine print in the download instructions probably warns that the reader will replace the purchased software. No one with the purchased software installed would knowingly replace 5.0 with the reader and suffer the loss of functionality, time and money. Adobe know this. It is time for a class-action law suit. Anyone interested.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Nick August 28, 2005 @ 1:26 pm

sigh.. now I've hit the problem of trying to read ebooks on my pocket PC in PDF format. Sure Acrobat has a free reader, but you have to zoom in and scroll around to read one line on a page. I have several PDF ebooks. I like reading ebooks only if its on my pocket PC. Is there any software that fits PDF files properly onto a pocket PC. Yet again Adobe you have screwed this one up. Your software is useless.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Marci October 12, 2005 @ 12:05 pm

I HATE ACROBAT EVEN MORE THAN YOU!

I'm tired of this hog sucking up all my RAM and grinding my CPU to a screeching halt every time I open it. I have Pro version, and I'm sick of having to go to my task manager to kill the frigging thing after each launch to free up memory for my "real" programs. Shut yourself off for Christ's sake, Acrobat!!!
GRRR!!!!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Bill October 15, 2005 @ 2:31 pm

Thank you all so much for exposing the crap that Adobe shoves down our throats. What's really needed is some (bad) publicity to sink this company. Perhaps some smart guy could find a security hole in acrobat and unleash a virus ridiculing Adobe?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Greg October 22, 2005 @ 4:43 pm

Let me add my voice to the chorus of complaints.

Acrobat Sucks!!! Ridiciulous load times harken back to the early 90s computing wait times. Cripes - you would think a company like Adobe could throw a wad of cash at somebody to streamline this pig.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Chuck October 24, 2005 @ 11:47 am

I just bought 7.0 PRO to make forms, i just wanted something that would get me away from Word more. I designed the forms, put them into PDF and would you believe it, to insert the fields you port into another piece of garbage called designer which cannot even read PDFs right! I have wasted so much time on this, I will go back to Word now and I will fire the next person who mentions the A word to me again, I don't care what freaking product it is, I will fire them. As for Adopey they can kiss my curly haired arse before I ever even discuss using any of their products in my company!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Joe T November 09, 2005 @ 7:44 am

Adobe AcroCRAP!

Damn, I have never in my life found a more "I want to be in your face all the time" application...

HOW ANNOYING CAN A SINGLE SOFTARE COMPANY BECOME???

I cant believe all of the Tool bar buttons that have been installed everywhere in my system...AS IF I WANT THEM??? And i can't make that damn things go away THEY KEEP COMMING BACK. And they don't even behave correctly. GOD I HATE THAT COMPANY

Sombody come up with a registry fix that will get rid of ALL OF IT!!!

Or if you figure out how to get the tool bar buttons to go away and never come back PLEASE TELL ME!!!

Someone needs to set up a web site that is organized by software vendor so that complaints like these will eventually get to the damn companies who are responsibe for putting out such shitty applications.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Joe T November 09, 2005 @ 8:01 am

...Back again.
I Noted that one comment in another post, that they don't like WinZIP...I have to agree, but it sure was nice when it was new wasn't it??? It really solved a lot of problems for me, and was installed on almost every computer i worked with. Today, I really appreciate the steps that Microsoft has taken to include support for .ZIP files, and i havent used WinZIP since...nor have i missed it...I can't wait till Microsoft start supporting the format in the windows operating system.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by David November 11, 2005 @ 7:10 pm

One of the comments on here refer to acrocrap as a steaming pile of lard, I think that is being too kind, I think a steaming pile of camel dung is more accurate.

I downloaded foxit reader and it is great, a quick small little app that doesn't make zone alarm go nuts issuing all sorts of warnings about what it is doing, no crappy download manager, no annoying load screen, no starting programs automatically on startup and I don't have to kill it after I am done using it.

I will never install any adobe crapware on any system I own ever again.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ally November 14, 2005 @ 1:33 am

Is there a plugin for firefox that can open .pdf without unleashing the slowest piece of crap, stress inducing lardy tardy acrobat crapper?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Trentboy@hotmail.com November 16, 2005 @ 11:41 pm

It's such a reassuring feeling to stumble into a group of people who all feel so strongly about something about which most people lack an opinion.
Adobe has such a "fancy pants" load-up, telling you just how many files it's clogged up your system's arteries with, as well as all these numbers... patent numbers? registration numbers? or version numbers? All for something that turns your useful text document into an immobilized stone carving. Here's an idea, let's print this manual on pages the size of football fields so that you will have to be in outer space to view more than one typed character at a time....! I think that's the actual executive board meeting where the idea was launched. Try to uninstall it and it multiplies...it's damn near a virus.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by crappie November 18, 2005 @ 5:59 pm

yeah, to make it even worse acrobat can run javascript which can be used to load viruses on your computer. Guess what happens if you disable javascript? Every time you close out of acrobat you get a message saying javascript error! Total douchebags. And yes, Microsoft is coming out with a format that is going to totally kill acrobat once and for all. Another great thing about the new acrobat is bootstrap.js this file is used by adobe acrobat. Bootstrap is a term for a p2p network. They are secretly downloading things from your computer when you use acrobat. They could even be downloading your sensitive document. Don't use anything higher than acrobat 6 or you're putting yourself at risk. Also under preferences turn off javascript.

adobe acrobat = spyware!!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by unprofessional November 27, 2005 @ 5:47 pm

Can't download the latest version using Firefox. Once you find an IE machine, you still must reduce the security settings and/or disable your firewall to get it. (Default settings probably work though)

Then, it uses some proprietary download manager to get the reader itself. I'm sorry, that is just too many hoops to jump through for mediocre software-- the 5.0.5 reader I have keeps nagging me about an update, even when I instruct it not to.

I entered 'adobe acrobat sucks' into search and found this page along with the foxit reader. Thanks a bunch.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by beatlepants December 12, 2005 @ 11:05 am

What use are PDF files in the first place? I can't think of a single use for the file format. This is not the 70's when file formatting was a problem, every time I open a PDF I feel like strangling the moron who sent it.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by SuperMike December 14, 2005 @ 8:11 am

Can Acrobat coexist with a real ECM solution? I think not. I don't like what I hear about the security concerns of Acrobat. I live in a secure environment for tactical reasons and this just sucks. I use SUPERText (made in Toronto Canada) because it really does work in my field, but some upstarts down the hall think that know everything and try to do the same thing in Acrobat. Care to search that? Care to print any of that? Good luck! Why does Acrobat take so long to search? Why does Acrobat fail to find things? Why is it a pig? Thanks for the FoxIT link, I'm using it now. The guys down the hall can suck it up big!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by beez December 28, 2005 @ 10:26 am

Thanks, Srdjan!
Kick ass little alternative.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Daniel Byers January 03, 2006 @ 2:12 am

hehe....I too ended up here after I typed "Adobe Sucks" in a google search. Very entertaining while I wait for that flippin' ballet dancer to disapper from my screen and serve me the PDF.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Leo A January 04, 2006 @ 3:12 am

Thank you, thank you, thank you all. I have been trying to open a .pdf file for days, and after downloading Acrocrap reader 7.0.5 which wouldnt even open, and being redirected by MS to Adobe (which is 'mud' - how apt)to be told its an unknown cause! Thought it was some new problem, but its apparently been going on for MONTHS!!! Boy are those guys s**t! Have an image of them sitting there saying "Derrrr", or "its a free program, fuck 'em". Not that I'm cynical or anything.
Foxit is great for what I need, which is simply to read docs. Why do Adobe think it takes 27MB to do that???

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Gary January 05, 2006 @ 7:36 am

I used to like Acrobat - sure it's a pig - but at least it's widespread. Then I wanted to do something simple: put a form on a web site for people to fill in, save, and upload to the server.

Acrobat "Professional" can create form fields, but the user can't save them to their local disk. Turns out that PDFs contain a flag that says whether you can save the file or not ... but Adobe wants $30,000 for the software ("Reader Extensions") that turns this flag on!

Thank heavens, it looks like FormRouter.net provides an alternative way of turning on this flag. I never use the word "sucks" because I think it's obnoxious and vulgar, but in this case I can say without reservation: "Adobe sucks."

P.S. I, too, found this web site by googling on "Adobe sucks".

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Annoyed January 12, 2006 @ 12:04 pm

I don't even open a document on the web anymore if it has a PDF file...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Teresa January 16, 2006 @ 3:29 am

Help! I installed Adobe Acrobat Professional (the trial version) from the web to be sure it suited my needs. Worked great. After 30 days, I accidently let the trial version expire. It not only removed Acrobat access, but also the pdf maker from PageMaker. So, like an idiot, I went out and purchased the full Acrobat 7.0 and loaded it, thinking it would solve the problem. No luck. Whatever Adobe did to protect their product after expiration, has also disabled future versions from working correctly. Any suggestions????

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Philip Gregory - Spokane, WA January 18, 2006 @ 3:24 pm

Srdjan's recommendation, http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ is the BEST!

I've looked for others, but they are all just another snake hiding under a 'Free download' banner trying to swallow you (and your $)

THANKS!

# re: I hate Adobe
by Tom Gulihur January 19, 2006 @ 5:30 am

I bought Adobe Creative Suite (education version) which included Acrobat 7.0 in March 2005. The Photoshop program started to crash regularly so I decided to un-install/re-install the software. After un-installing the product wouldn't re-install because the #1 CD was cracked. I called tech support to request media replacement and it's no longer produced so all I can do is re-purchase the software. I paid $399 plus $40.88 sales tax. Is Adobe a screwed up company or what? Adobe sucks.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Sheffield January 19, 2006 @ 6:05 am

I will never buy another piece of Adobe software. Now they are resorting to NAG WARE! IF you switch systems and you don't transfer your key then you get nags about your hardware changing and the software pukes! Man This Sucks!

The best way to get back at them is simply not support them!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Shawn January 29, 2006 @ 5:55 am

Ive been building a new computer and just got around to adding adobe 7. ive been having a few problems with load times on this computer and have narrowed it down. Load time from poweroff on xp mce 2005 before adobe. 43 seconds. After adobe. 150 to 170 seconds. That was the only thing changed. Restored the computer to just before the installation of adobe 7 and Im back to 43 seconds. I've always hated Adobe.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Just a multitasking worker February 26, 2006 @ 10:46 pm

Man I have Reader 7 and it's getting uninstalled for foxit. I use PDF995 so I can print to PDF. The reason? Nagware in Adobe - I don't want to upgrade the Chinese Simplified Character set! For the love of God it worked when I installed it why do I need this box popping up? Heaven forbid you want to read something in IE - be prepared for 100% system resource usage and if you do something else and a nagware box for upgrading to version 7.00000000000.5 apears be prepared to load Task Manger. And now it needs a Startup Folder item called, wait for it, Speed Launch - it is only a viewer get over yourself Adobe. Bye Bye and good riddance to that terrible pompus software.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Tommy martin February 28, 2006 @ 8:16 am

email: vpn1951@yahoo.com

I need to create forms from time to time and cannot see investing in Acrobat pro. I need to know if there is a free version to read and edit pdf files. My infrequent use does not warrant a major expenditure.

Thanks.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat -- Installer Designed by Monotremes
by Chuck Ellis March 02, 2006 @ 4:25 am

Adobe Acrobat 7.0.7 installation process is unbelieveably obtuse. It shows a lack of willingness to acknowledge the user may have anything else to do other than to maintain Adobe. The update manager nagged me repeatedly to upgrade from 7.0.5 to 7.0.7. Would you twits get a life! So I installed and -- not needing it immediately -- hit the "reboot later" button. I turn off the computer at the end of the day, come in and boot up the next morning, and the SAME REBOOT BOX IS THERE telling me I have to reboot. WHAT IS THIS? I TURNED IT OFF -- I TURNED IT ON but Adobe didn't see a reboot? Someone at Adobe is brain-dead! Then the topper -- Acrobat starts itself without me requesting it, opens a splash screen which has no buttons, and inactivates the application-close X button in the upper right. After trying to close it, I go to task-manager only to find that this idiotic program is "awaiting user input". This installer is a bad joke.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Slick March 04, 2006 @ 1:55 am

God damn Acrobat. Why do you want me to upgrade to some stupid mood thingy? WTF? I keep telling acrobat to NOT install any more of the annoying plug-ins. Do not ask me again. Then it does it again. Does Acrobat think I changed my mind. And don't get me started about photoshop. Acrobat version 3 or 5 was fine. It loaded on my system. Acrobat 7 sucks my computer dry. 800000mb of memory. Fries my processor for 2 minutes. I hate you Acrobat.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Turd Ferguson March 06, 2006 @ 11:42 am

I did the same thing as Chuck Ellis. I updated from 7.0.5 to 7.0.7. I use Exchange web mail and ever since I upgraded my Acrobat reader, it hangs up with 100 percent CPU when I try to open a PDF attachment. I have never been a fan of Adobe because their software is just too quirky and Acrobat is the worst. They seem to add more quirks with each new version. One program of theirs that I do like is Audition. I think the only reason that it is good is because they just bought Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro and put their name on it.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by EBanes March 13, 2006 @ 7:00 pm

With Adobe Reader 7 update, now we have 100,000+ pdf files that will not open (but opened just fine with Adobe Reader 6). Called Adobe, put on hold for 45 minutes, and the support rep, essentially said go live with it. What a piece of crap@ I will be recommending removing Acrobat and Reader from all our 50,000+ workstations. Even reconsidering if PDF is the appropriate format to store our document archives. Any alternative recommendations?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Julian March 20, 2006 @ 3:05 am

Actually Adobe's support, especially in the UK, is pretty amazing. Instant help, fully in agreement that Acrobat 7.0 > 7.05 > 7.07 > PhotoStarter/Language Pack/etc. so totally blows large chunks of nagware (excellent term for it btw) and told me how to network install Reader 7.07 across all computers at once. The UI still sucks - but isn't screwing up UI styles something that Adobe has been doing ever since Photoshop 5.5 (the last good PS version IMO).

Now if you REALLY want something that will have you in tears and realising that Adobe make easy to install products then try the worst software that money can buy ... Quark Xpress - £999 per copy normal retail price, no licensing deals (I'm SysAdmin for a UK national newspaper and we have to buy about 2,800 copies of that POS every 2 years with zero discount) and it is one bitch to install on both Mac and on Windows. Sadly we can't crossgrade to InDesign due to the rest of the group also being on Quark.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Scollege March 21, 2006 @ 2:51 pm

Yeah, answer me this: How come every year our PC hardware resources and power multiply, but new versions of software like Adobe continue to run sluggishly and poorly?

I am not really doing anything different with the latest versions of Photoshop or Illustrator that I haven't done for years - and they're still slow resource pigs!

"Software Bloat" be damned - probably doing it purposely, so we keep buying upgrades!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by steve March 21, 2006 @ 11:05 pm

on windows 2000 acrobat 7 throws an error up every time you shut down the pc, for windows 2000, i found acrobat 6.0.1 to be the only one that works, couldn't get foxit to work

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by earl March 29, 2006 @ 3:29 pm

thanx for fxit gooday adobe crapola

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl March 29, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

FoxIt is great but...

what are alternatives for editing Acrobat forms? Anything?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by bradbrowne April 08, 2006 @ 7:28 am

I quess I am lucky that my Acrobat 7.0 pro version won't even launch, even after numerous uninstalls and reinstalls.

Enuf said guys.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Conor Power April 12, 2006 @ 10:25 pm

I'm a long time enemy of Acrobat too. Foxit reader is quite good if you just want to browse PDFs. What really gets me is the updater for acrobat and that is what is crippling most systems. Foxit will work with Firefox too!

If you want a quick and easy way of printing PDFs download OpenOffice for free. You can open your word doc and output to PDF. You might even get to like it so much you get rid of M$ word.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jordash April 13, 2006 @ 7:12 am

Adobe Reader is a horrid bloated pig, I'm on Tech Support and everytime anyone has trouble I refer them to Foxit.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Honeypop April 22, 2006 @ 8:35 am

How about pdf professional 3.0? Anyone had any reviws about it. I need a pdf writer for my college work and was just checking before I invested money into something that obviosly seem no to work properly.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Nadheen April 23, 2006 @ 4:32 pm

Try PrimoPDF. It sure can open and create PDF Documents produced by Adobe.

Cheers.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Skillz April 27, 2006 @ 3:26 am

I am SO happy to have found this blog. First I would like to say I found this site by typing adobe sucks. But only after I googled "Adobe is the biggest peice of fat bloated crap ever devised by man".
My problem is the support angle. I am the Network admin for a 100+ employee company and I spend more time fixing adobe acrobat reader and worse, the distiller. Users are constanly baraged with pop ups to update reader, and god forbid if they say "Yes"! Next thing I know I am spending 4 hours wiping a PC because there are two or three versions that are half installed on the PC, and wont come off. After some digging and serious net reasearch, I learned about a little nasty called DRM. Yes DRM. Thats Digital Rights Management. Translated that means "Adobe can pirate your PC by writing to track 0 of your harddrive, a blatent OS violation, but you cant copy adobe". So they spend much more time on developing cover there assests features and antipiracy, then they do enhancing the product.
They have NO RIGHT to write to my track 0. You bastards! And they said Microsoft was evil!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by gmoney April 27, 2006 @ 2:08 pm

I hate Adobe. its a peice of ^$#%$ I hate seeing that stupid ass man with his stupid breifcase when the junk loads up. I have a brand new PC and it still locks it up. I avoid a PDF whenever possible. I type "I hate PDF files" and found this great info

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Eric April 29, 2006 @ 4:27 pm

I always thought their business strategy was to give away the reader in order to make their own PDF creation tools hot items. Okay, sounds good to me. Then why make Adobe Reader suck so bad? Make it a simple, clean, and secure tool, and I would stop rolling my eyes whenever someone sends me a PDF file. And don't add ads, nags, or any internet communication, and I might reconsider it as a valuable tool. But for now, I gotta go with Foxit Reader and generally disdain PDF as a format.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by yrock May 03, 2006 @ 12:07 pm

As a design professional, I use PDF documents on a regular basis. There is no way around this industry standard. Luckily, I am on a Mac and making a PDF is as easy as going to print and selecting save as PDF. Never had any problems, except that I need to use Acrobat to make comments on a PDF. Used to be easy. Now all commenting tools are on a seperate tool bar called "advanced commenting" What is so bloody advanced about writing some text or making a rectangle? There is a select text tool, a Touch UP text tool and a text box tool. WTF??? These days I just print the pdf, and handwrite comments.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by thissitehasapoint May 05, 2006 @ 11:04 pm

I found this blog by type I hate adobe. And I hate adobe. And I hate their update manager, which always pops up somewhere in the background with ridiculous updates. And the fucker wont let me do anything until I find it and click leave me alone, which works for a good 15 minutes. fuckers. fuckers. fuckers.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by adobehater May 09, 2006 @ 7:56 am

I hope they nuke adobe and leave a smoking hole in the ground where their headquarters used to be.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by adobe=shit_in_yo_pants May 12, 2006 @ 6:00 am

adobe is obviously the worst corporatio ever to make computer products. I wonder who the idiot is that runs that stupid corporation

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ed May 12, 2006 @ 5:00 pm

omg, fuck adobe.. i had a clean install system and i put adobe CS2 on it - what a mistake that was! the system went from being lightning fast to crawling like a sick dog. have you any idea how many processes this piece of crap runs in the background? even after i uninstalled everything except acrobat and photoshop, it still loads like 4 programs a startup, runs a license management thingy all the time that is continually "scanning for changes on your computer" so it can determine if you're violating the license agreement.

if you delete these entries from the startup places they somehow manage to recreate themselves.

fuck adobe - this software is going back, and im gonna stick to foxit reader and the gimp. hey, maybe i'll get a pirated copy of PS so i dont have to deal with their license management crap crippling my system.

so, in sum: FUCK ADOBE

my GOD is this terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE software.

# re: I love Adobe Acrobat
by getoverit May 19, 2006 @ 3:07 am

Jeez, quit whinging like the bunch of girls you are ... if you don't like it, don't use it ... ffs

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by UNILAD13 May 26, 2006 @ 7:59 am

No, whingeing is good, because it speaks of a revolution of the common man against shit software monoliths who create fascist software crap that tells you what IT wants only, and stuffs up your PC!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by eye May 27, 2006 @ 8:12 am

Adobe products == Bloatware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloatware

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Tynan June 01, 2006 @ 9:26 am

I mange the prod dept knocking out over a hundred pages of tabloid directory rammed full of all sorts of ads and stuff from all sorts of third party, all put together in Quark and turned into pdf, it's alive saver compared to the old days, gives us very few problems

I suspect the alternative programmes won't be able to handle the sheer complexity and bulk of the files we produce

Mind you we're stuck on Quark4, Photoshop6 and Acrobat4 for fear of the new versions not working, running Distiller7 though, all good although the one that just updated itself to 7.07 has just gone nuts and here I am

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl June 01, 2006 @ 1:45 pm

I had an intersting discussion last night with a few developers at a user group meeting, and we were discussing document formats.

The thing that sticks out to me is that Adobe PDF viewer in general are crappy - they are horrible for reading content. All the readers do a horrible job of sizing pages and providing an easy scrollable view of the data. I'm constantly moving the document around just to read pages.

For a dedicated tool that is such a huge pig the least thing it could do is provide decent functionality in the one task it was actually designed to do.

The other PDF readers are no better in this respect, but given Acrobat's supposed 'leadership' role in this market, it's a pathetic showing.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by deano June 02, 2006 @ 5:15 pm

Thanks for your website. It's very funny to read but I also removed Adobe 7, which was causing problems by always asking us to re-load it or update it, and replacing a 65MB program wit 1MB of basic Foxit.
That is a fantastic improvement and it saved me a hell of a lot of editing.
I've always hated using PDFs because of Adobe but now it is good just to be able to read them (simply) and say good riddance to bloody Adobe.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rex Smith June 02, 2006 @ 9:27 pm

Another reason Adobe sucks: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2662

Adobe has the gall to claim pdf is open source!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Wolfie June 10, 2006 @ 2:18 pm

Piece of garbage, bloated-ware, and shit. 60MB to read a simple PDF file. They have turned int Microsoft. It constantly tries to update the Registry so it slows down my computer on boot up. The "Preferences" options are hidden so well I need to freaking Google on how to change the deafault Zoom setting. I simply cannot install the updates since it wants to again mess with my Registry settings and unless I let it I cannot get the updates. I have to uninstall and re-install it each time. Mother Fuckers!!!! Then they also want to automatically install it's Album Viewer program and I have to procactively tell it NO. What a piece of CRAP! Wake up Adobe and get back to basics or your PDF format is history!!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by pudne June 11, 2006 @ 12:17 pm

I had 3 updates to install (7.0.5, 7.0.7, 7.0.8). It took over 10 minutes to install each one of them (after I downloaded 65 MB for the updates) and I had to reboot 3 times!!!!!
Oh my god... I don't understand why you have to install every other update before installing the most recent one. Shouldn't we just installing the most recent one? (like every other software)... Maybe their framework is just a piece of crap
Who makes their software... high school students? Trainees??? Maybe just from people who should lost their job...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ed Morgan June 15, 2006 @ 9:37 am

Thank God! A community of like-minded haters. Acrobat Pro 7 is horrible!!!! The update feature is beyond belief, it's so annoying, comes up all the time, can't finish the updates, it's just a complete dog. My agency uses Acrobat to review PDFs, and the editing tools are even more broken in 7 than they were in previous versions. What in the world is that stupid "halo" around the text box? You can't make the arrow touch the box. And the callout tool with attached arrow is a joke, it looks like it was developed as a high-school programming project, impossible to use effectively. Hell, I could go on and on, but I'll just sum up with something I thought I'd never say: I welcome Microsoft into this space. Adobe is the only company on the planet that is more arrogant than our friends in Redmond, and that's saying something.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Nicky Song June 18, 2006 @ 1:00 am

I totally agree. 30 minutes ago I clicked a PDF link on google and then the acrobat reader's loading screen froze everything up. The CPU usage reached 100%. I became mad and killed the whole IE process. Then I searched "stupid pdf adobe" on google and found this page.

Damn PDF

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by jarrod f June 26, 2006 @ 4:51 pm

Adobe reader constantly slows me up and jams my windows xp often causing me to reboot. I cringe when I click onto a site and that god awful adobe reader loading message appears. Why won't it just DIE!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by JacobH June 26, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

Really stupid "monopoly" status for a "so-so" free program - only you get tied to get their stupid download manager, DRM licensing control, Yahoo Toolbar, Album viewer and what not - myriad of crapware, like another comment earlier on mentioned, you actually NEED to untick these stupid bundles of crap crappety crap - couldn't agree more - we need something simple like the zip functionality in winxp to handle this silly little oh-so-popular format (being handled damn proprietary bu Adobe even though it's supposed to be open source) Damn Reader - refused to install after reformatting, and, actually havent missed it since. Rather be without Reader and not have PDF functionality than strangle the system with Crap crappity crap adobe Reader - Arrrrggg!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Robert June 30, 2006 @ 4:03 am

I agree with everybody. I updated my adobe reader 7.** and I had to reboot my system 4 times durring the process. That is riduculus. Also, Acrobat seemingly does not recognize a manual reboot. If I chose to "Restart my computer later" I still had to restart it again under the Acrobat restart window for the update to work. My solution, FOXIT READER!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jry July 02, 2006 @ 5:37 pm

Seeing this post was great. I HATE Acrobat, it is a piece of junk. One of the major IT tasks I deal with revolves around Acrobat issues. Thank you for the suggestions and alternatives.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Bobtheteacher July 06, 2006 @ 2:26 pm

Wow, I can't believe I wasted 3 hours last week instead of trying to find this post.

For some reason my Acrobat buttons are gone in Word 2003, and I can't get my 5.0 full install to get them back in. So when I print my free advertising strategies ebook -- no links! I had to hand draw all the invisible boxes.

But since reading the post about www.pdf995.com, it took me about 4 minutes to figure out how to get ALL of my links embedded properly.

Thank you thank you thank you! I don't know if it's the best, but it certainly is working fine for me! I was about to pay the upgrade to 7.0. Ha!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rodrigo Oliveira July 09, 2006 @ 5:49 am

Hello! Very nice comments.
There is a very interesting document format that could be used to challenge PDF: djvu <http://www.djvuzone.org/>.
It renders very, very fast and the files are pretty small. Let's spread it!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ian July 09, 2006 @ 9:27 am

It feels good to know I am not alone... adobe has been a bug bear of mine for a while... it never used to be such a pain I am sure... just had to install umpteen versions just to get to the latest version...reboot everytime WTF, you can install major software upgrades without a reboot these days...not adobe reader.
It doesn't matter how many times I tell it not to update it does.
Thanks for this post for making me feel not alone, and for pointing me at Foxit Reader. Like an old incontinent animal. Time for bed Adobe. Bye byes.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Bruce July 11, 2006 @ 12:32 pm

Does anybody here know a place to find the instructions to manually uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

I had a failed attempt to uninstall it automatically and now am unable to re-install it. Adobe of course asks you to call them and pay a frigging $39 incident fee to provide technical support if you do not have a service plan. What a crock!

Any help out there???

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Mykra July 13, 2006 @ 4:05 pm

I also typed, "hate adobe acrobat" into google and it was great to find these comments and the links to alternatives. Now maybe I can re-read those e-books I paid for.....

Cheers!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Pete July 19, 2006 @ 2:24 am

I have the 30 day(expired) trial of 7 Pro, and want to unintall it, but cannot find how to. It was installed directly from their webpage. Any ideas please?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by PeteC July 19, 2006 @ 2:28 am

I hate adobe too. It always brings down my computer. Not right away but "soon". I can operate for days without any problems. Then if I have to open a pdf file, I know I am doomed. Within 10 to 15 minutes, things will start to "go bad" and soon I will have to reboot.

What about the other sdobe product Shockwave. I can't get it to install. It says it does but it never works.

How could you start a campaign to stop using adobe products?

PeteC

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Shaun July 23, 2006 @ 10:00 pm

How I loathe having to use Adobe Acrobat reader. We use FoxItReader at our company but some products (QuickBooks Online and Microsoft Small Business Accounting) actually check to see if the reader is installed and if not found the webpage won't open, even with FoxItReader installed! I am a software developer and I can't understand how hard it is for the Adobe software engineers to get something as simple as pop-up window focus to work. I wish them all a terrible death.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Neel Panch August 01, 2006 @ 2:18 pm

I did joined today with you everyone here.Just dumped it today and downloaded foxit for the first time.I hope it will work as you all said.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Gene August 03, 2006 @ 8:54 am

I hate Adobe because....

1. Adobe is solipsistically engineered. Thinks it's the only application on my system. This is the case whether or not I'm using the reader at home or the "distiller" at work.

Examples of this infantile and "Big Brother knows best" engineering schema follows...

2. Each time I have the woeful misfortune of clicking onto a ".pdf" file online my Adobe reader INSISTS on going home to Mom, in order to see if my current install needs updates. In order to "enrich" the Adobe experience. In order to follow Big Brother's decree that all proles, irregardless of connection speed, will recieve the "Optimal Adobe Experience"(tm).

You're on Dailup? Too bad Prole, get a real connection!!

Naturally I am at the mercy of the Adobe Home Server. My browser chokes and I must wait until Abobe Central decides to respond. At this time the downloading continues...

Naturally my browser sits patiently. I am less patient. Fortunately I am lucky, in old times Adobe used to halt for so long that the connection would fail.

The upshot of this quest for excellence is to frustrate the user. I don't get an Optimal Adobe Experience(tm). I get angry.

Be nice if the dingbats who spec out these virtual abominations had the common courtesy to ASK "DO you want me to check home?" Oh no!!!

No, Big Brother has decreed that surfing Proles must wait patiently because Big Brother has decreed that you will recieve the Optimal Adobe Experience (tm).

Yeap, you better get that upgrade. Then Big Brother won't put a hold on your browser. Prole!!

3. Should I indulge the lunacy of exiting my browser because of I have other things to do with my life besides wait for the Optimal Adobe Experience (tm) there are untoward side effects. I lose all State Data from the other windows. Sometimes there residual effects (probably caused by an unloaded Adobe module) that cause browser issues such as poor loading or unstable behavior.

4. When I see photos of the Adobe Team I see before a bunch of Mueslix munching Hippified "I know better than you" Artist types who have decreed that Gene and the rest of the Human Race will have the best Adobe Experience (tm) humanly possible, even if all we want to do is look at a freakin' bunch of text!

When I see these long haired hippified Mueslix munching alleluiahs basking in the SoCal sun I also see all of these environMENTALISTs who insist I pay more for electricity and food in order to "save the environment" (even if it doesn't really help the environment, just a inflates the pay of a bunch of public and private sector Green commissars). I see all of these "I know what's best for you because I'm Enlightened" types. The ones who hate my old car, my registered and licensed handgun, my "neanderthal" attitudes on marriage, sexual orientation, money, welfare, affirmative action, and anything else which such "people" have decided to inflict upon me.

Adobe is Liberalism in a program.... save that most liberals I know are considerate people. We can't say the same about the Optimal Adobe Experience(tm)!!

The main thing that Adobe Products have done for me is to give me more patience. In the old days I was even angrier at them.

Still, I wish harm on some of them, in a passive sort of way. I read a few years back that the Chairman of Adobe was kidnapped. Too freaking bad the kidnappers didn't send something unessential to his family as proof that they were holding him, for example, his stupid head!!

Be nice if someone had something to compete with Adobe. Maybe then Adobe would consider the feelings of Proles and common trash on the Internet who just want to get the info and git!

Gene

# re: Adobe sucks
by John August 10, 2006 @ 5:47 am

OK... so not only is it slow, and huge, and wants to add crap to my registry for startup, but on installing the updates it wants me to reboot my computer? This is XP crack smokers! It's a document reader! It's not like I am installing a new shell. Anyway, adobe sucks and I am sick of 2MB pdf's filling up my email.

# Got tired of adobe acrobat nagging to upgrade
by Jesse August 17, 2006 @ 2:10 pm

So I installed cygwin (which is admittedly quite a task, since you get a full working linux-like system including XWINDOWS in your MS windows box, http://cygwin.com/) which of course includes xpdf. I set up firefox to launch xpdf instead of acrobat and it's nice and fast. (Unfortunately I have to get cygwin running in the background first. But this gives me full linux utilities such as web servers, gcc C compiler, and a whole ton of stuff!)

But now pdfs load up real quick in an open source viewer, with no nags etc!

I did also have to set the DISPLAY enviroment variable by going to start->controlpannel->system->AdvancedTab->EnviromentVariables
then add a New User Variable setting DISPLAY to localhost:0.0

I think I also had to copy c:\cygwin\bin\xpdf.exe to c:\windows\system32 so it was in my path, but probably I should have just included c:\cygwin\bin in my path variable. if I recall correctly, I also had to copy some DLL's to my path (but probably would have been better to just set PATH to incoude C:\cygwin\bin and perhaps C:\cygwin\lib, but not too sure about this. (I actually installed cygwin and xpdf long time ago, but just now set xpdf to launch for PDFs.)

One can also use gv, but it's not searchable.

Hope this helps someone.

-Jesse

Not exactly

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jesse August 17, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

Forgot some. Not exactly a quick-fix, but it's an option if one's computer is fast enough.

Foxit webpage looks nice, but the free version is for non-commercial use only, so that's why I don't use it, although I'm sure it's a fine process.

-Jesse

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Erin Harold August 17, 2006 @ 6:29 pm

At least most of the people writing in know what their Adobe problems are. I'm one of these dark ages types who aren't that familiar with computers. On our computer at work I think I got Adobe to behave a little more reasonably, but my home computer has a drastic Adobe problem. I think somehow my Adobe 7.0 isn't installed or activated right.Every day it tells me I need updates, but it refuses the updates. It turns my computer off unexpectedly. This is a new laptop, and I bought it for video editing, I bought Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, I usually only get five to seven minutes into the program and it turns itself off. The only other times it has turned itself off unexpectedly have been reading PDF files or once when that damn message about updates comes up. My computer hates everything Adobe. I hate everything Adobe. I googled "Adobe sucks" since I couldn't find anything helpful on Adobe's Help website. Sometimes Adobe just pops up randomly on my screen as if to taunt me. I've tried to reinstall it and it tells me the network resource is unavailable, or sometimes that a fatal installation error has occurred.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Tom August 31, 2006 @ 5:42 pm

Really pleased I found this page! I hated Adobe, now I hate them even more! This blog truly highlights what a useless bunch of shit that software is. I haven't used it for a long time. Long live Foxit Reader & GIMPshop. Fuck adobe !! :D

# Adobe is just like the Bush Administration
by Al Gore September 11, 2006 @ 10:01 pm

Adobe is just like our huge bloated military industrial complex ran by the likes of fat cat repuke know-it-alls like Dick Cheney. You can't tell Adobe anything as one of their customers because they WONT LISTEN. Just like the voters of the US cant tell George Chimpanzee Bush anything because he's such an arrogant little know-it-all!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by sks September 20, 2006 @ 5:52 am

42 MBs for just the (linux) reader! I guess that's got more to do with all the ads that with PDF reading. Not happening. I'm never using adobe acrobat again.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by injun joe September 21, 2006 @ 7:42 pm

omFg...i think i hate adobe the most out of all of YOU!! get this shit, wouldja?

i've never been really computer literate, but being in college i needed to make PDFs and so a friend of mine got me adobe acrobat pro ver. 7 w/ a keygen; meaning my copy was ripped off (which i just recently found out!!)

anyway, i install it, use it, shit's fine, but i also use ad-aware spyware and spybot search and destroy (also my roommate's suggestion) but little did i know that when you use the spyware search and destroy programs, that they change your registries, so that one day, i get these error messages from adobe 7 telling me that my whatchamacallits have changed and that i need to reactivate my program...if i didn't it would automatically close the program...talk about the shit hitting the fan! i almost called the adobe tech support people when my friend almost emptied his anus telling me that i can't cos my copy is ripped off...so then i had to uninstall the program cos i don't want stolen shit on my laptop...

so then get this, i found out that even if you try to totally remove adobe shit fuck programs that you can't cos adobe writes to TRACK 0 which is illegal, but it writes secret shit there to constantly keep a watchful eye on its programs, keeping them legal and BIG BROTHER-ish...unless you reformat your HD then you'll have adobe crap sitting there till the duration...

SO! FUCK ADOBE!!!!!! i hate that software, and the fucking chin-nuts that designed the software to write to track 0 which totally goes against OS law!

i mean does it sound believable? can they do that??? WHAT BULLSHIT! i had to dl acrobat reader ver 7.0.8 which seems to be their latest ver. and it's working okay, like i don't have free ups and shit, but i'm going to uninstall the pig

thanks a lot for all the great advice and better stuff to get that's free and less memory...

joe

# Tobler.SoftwareArchitecture() : [Tools] A Free Fast PDF Reader
by Tobler.SoftwareArchitecture() September 25, 2006 @ 7:15 am

Do you, like me, get weary of waiting for Adobe's PDF reader to do whatever it is that it feels that it needs to do at the moment before it lets you read your document? Try the free Foxit PDF Reader, a lightweight and very fast alternative. Sorry, Adobe,

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by David Patrick September 27, 2006 @ 6:21 pm

Hello!

I hate any version of Acrobat Adobe. It freezes up my computer, then I have to do the ctrl/alt/del, to get rid of the stupid thing. I wish no one would use it as a source for whatever thier service is, etc

Peace

# Julie Lerman Blog - Warning - Acrobat Reader 7 install whacks full Acrobat features of previous version
by Julie Lerman Blog October 03, 2006 @ 12:00 am

# Mobile Opportunity: Flash versus Windows: Can Adobe break Microsoft?
by Mobile Opportunity October 07, 2006 @ 5:10 pm

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by DW October 08, 2006 @ 7:35 am

FoxIt has problems with some PDFs. You can decrease Adobe load time and memory usage:

http://digg.com/software/How_to_speed_up_PDF_loading_with_Adobe_Acrobat

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by zer0day October 08, 2006 @ 7:47 am

Foxit Reader and Cute PDF is all you need ;)

# Acrobat is not that bad
by CT October 08, 2006 @ 8:12 am

Wow, the hate for adobe is intense here.

First of all, i agree that FoxIt is better and faster than Acrobat for view PDF files. However, i've never run into any problems whatsoever using Acrobat for viewing and generating PDFs. Sure, version 5 was slow and version 6 was a tad faster but everyone here says that Acrobat either freezes or jams up their computers.

I'm a graphics designer and i have to create PDFs all the time to send them to printers. PDFs beat the crap out of EPS files as the newer versions of PDFs let you include more info in the files than EPS ever can and makes sure that what you've spends days creating on you computer actually prints that way.

PDF files were made for the graphics design and printing world, never for the general public to use. If the software seems retarded and complicated, it's because it's full of options that the average joe would never use, mainly because s/he doesn't understand what it's for. But for the designers and printers, everything in there is useful.

So yes, FoxIt is better and faster but not for designers and printers. FoxIt acheives its speed by ignoring a lot of the info within a PDF file or just assuming default values. If all you need is to read documents in PDFs format then go with FoxIt, but if you actually use PDFs for what they were intended then stick with Acrobat.

# You think PDF is trivial?
by Pierre October 08, 2006 @ 11:10 am

You think the PDFormat is trivial? You think it should be no problem to produce a reader?

Why don't you read the spec some time? (It's freely available from Adobe). PDF is complex, and requires considerable effort to implement. Be grateful the reader is free. There are many free alternatives. I bet they don't come close to supporting all the features.

# I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!) - Rick Strahl's Web Log
by Rick Strahl's Web Log October 08, 2006 @ 11:18 am

I installed Acrobat Reader 7.0 today thinking it might improve the crappy Reader that came before it. Nope - but it sure pissed me off some more by installing my full version of Adobe Acrobat removing Distiller and all PDF creation options. Nice.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by J. Maynard Gelinas October 08, 2006 @ 11:50 am

Hi Rick,

LaTeX offers a completely free cross platform alternative to PDF. One can create, display, and transfer TeX documents without paying a royalty fee and without the high CPU and memory requirements. Also, the documents look wonderful.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by stephen woodruff October 08, 2006 @ 1:01 pm

You miss the point. Acrobat is so bad, in so many ways, that many people and companies adopt Microsoft Word as their standard instead. Imagine if Acrobat didn't exist...would they put all their eggs in Microsoft's basket? Would MS Word look so good? Adobe doesn't REALLY make Acrobat, just accepts millions a year from Microsoft to pretend it does. Keep those tinfoil hats on, guys.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Peter October 08, 2006 @ 2:05 pm

<em>I’m really surprised that Microsoft or somebody hasn’t come up with its own format for document display.</em>

Microsoft Metro.

<em>I’m not quite sure whether the various browser bugs with the Acrobat reader have been fixed.</em>

I worked with dynamic PDF generation on the web for about 3 years and the bugs were not with the Reader client, they were with the browser, mainly IE, using techniques other than the mime type to determine the mime type such as looking for a file extension in the URL. Most of these issues have been sorted out.

I think what everyone fails to keep in mind is that PDF files were not originally intended to be editable, online documents and forms. At their core, they are Postscript files with security restrictions in place to prevent editing. Their main intent was to provide a WYSIWYG format for printing electronic forms and all of the additional features (crap) were added on later to get you that 28mb file where 27mbs of it are the features no one ever uses.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by yclipse October 08, 2006 @ 2:10 pm

ScanSoft also has a pair of alternatives called PDF Creator and PDF Converter, $50 each.

http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?SP=10023&PN=1&xid=19198&V1=855997

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by djnasser October 08, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

wow. i came across your post and consider myself lucky: i think you are right.
i went to www.oldversion.com and downloaded acrobat version 4, does the job and is slicker than 7, but, still bloatware.

same goes to all adobe products. two names, HP and Adobe never made me happy.

thanks for the posting. really appreciate it.

cheers.

Dj

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by docatomic October 08, 2006 @ 2:37 pm

I like the idea behind .pdf files; the ability to retain document formatting and style across all platforms is wonderful. I don't need all of the numerous features inherent in the .pdf file format, however - all I really desire is simply the ability to print and view ordinary documents and webpages in .pdf format.

I am running a computer with five different operating systems installed, so cross-compatibility is important to me. For the two Linux distros installed, xpdf and openoffice are fine - they perform properly. For the two Windows versions installed, however, I've experienced considerably more headache - for; as many here have found, I too have learned the hard way that Adobe Acrobat is _not_ the proper solution at all.

In reading throughout the foregoing comments, however, I also find that two themes in particular recur:

1) Spelling. To all of those "IT" people and "managers" who have so clearly revealed to the entire world their ignorance, as well as their inability to spell even simple words correctly, I offer this supposition: that perhaps the programmers who _write_ the software being sold by the likes of Adobe and Microsoft *also* suffer greatly from this same form of ignorance - and that is perhaps a very large part of the reason why their products do not function properly.

2) "Illegal" writes to Track 0; the inability to uninstall or remove softwares; et al... to these people I suggest the use of the following two programs: Norton Ghost, and Ranish Partition Manager. Ghost allows one to back up the C: partition (or an entire hard drive, for that matter) onto a bootable set of CD-R discs; Ranish also allows one to clone (via an obscure feature) an entire hard drive to another hard drive of identical capacity. Either method allows for the _complete_ resoration of ANY installation, to exactly the point of most recent backup - which, of course, should be made immediately prior to installing *any* new program or additional operating system. Additionally; a small DOS utility by the name of mbrwork.exe also allows one to back up the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the first hard drive in a system, which is quite useful at times - and another small DOS utility by the name of wipe.com allows one to wipe a drive completely clean, and so remove all traces of any previous installation or infection. All of these programs together do fit and run from a single DOS boot floppy - and they are invaluable "lifesavers", indeed.

Lastly, I would also recommend these as well: vide-cdd.sys (a very small driver, to enable access of CDROM drives via the aforementioned DOS boot floppy); XOSL - the eXtended Operating System Loader, for excellent multibooting (the capability to install and boot up to 31 different operating systems, on one single computer - and individually password-accessed, if desired!); and finally, QNX version 6.2.1 (the fifth operating system I have installed) - for when absolutely _nothing_ else works, and emergency access to the internet is necessary.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl October 08, 2006 @ 2:49 pm

A few people that cite 'PDF is not a simple format' I'd like to point out that there are MANY, MANY applications that generate PDF internally and view it too, from developer tools like report writers (many from relatively small companies) to full developer libraries that allow manipulation of PDF files both for reading and writing, to many main stream applications. There's nothing magical about the PDF format.

Sure Acrobat does a lot but that doesn't mean that the entire thing has to run in a single process all at once even if you don't use features. A little modular software design might help. The fact that this many people decided to vent on this site is a monument to that. I mean how often are you pissed off enough to even write a small note about something that pisses you off? There are some very irate notes here and I for one understand...

But Adobe has little interest in making a better reader - or for that matter listening to its customers. The thing is free after all right? It only sucks your computer's will to live - what do they care <s>...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jeff October 08, 2006 @ 3:28 pm

Foxit Reader for reading PDF's, Open Office for creating (but not editing) PDF's. Both free.

Whenever I use Adobe at the office it attempts to update, slowing down the computer immensely - I'm not the admin, so I can't get rid of it.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Third World Apricot October 08, 2006 @ 3:53 pm

I couldn't agree more. PDFs are the scourge of the internet - try opening a pdf of > 1mb in Firefox and you'll be hiting Ctrl-Alt-Del faster than you can damn Adobe to hell.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by thadk October 08, 2006 @ 10:27 pm

I believe that I read on the mozillazine forums that there are many known memory leaks in Firefox with versions of the Acrobat plug in older than 7.0.7. You're just asking for trouble using 5.0 (or 6).

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Sebastian October 08, 2006 @ 11:47 pm

you guys have no idea!
PDF not made for online-paper! The format was invented to have a standard for professional PRINTING! Professional graphic designers and print shops need it. There's no alternative to the color management in Adobe PDF.
So shut up and use Flash-Paper!
b.h.
PS: Think before you type!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by framedsheep October 09, 2006 @ 1:04 am

I'll agree with b.h. there - Acrobat was not made for online-paper. It is by and large meant for print purposes.

Incidentally, I read a comment above somewhere that stated that OS X opens PDF's natively. That's the theory. In my experience there are many documents that I cannot open in OS X Preview, that I then must open in Acrobat Reader. I don't like this because Acrobat Reader is so damn slooooooooooow.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Sean Straus October 09, 2006 @ 3:41 am

Quit arguing, and download

FOXIT READER!!!
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

You'll never have to fight and kick and scream again, it's rocket fast.

# Acrobat Reader: Feel the love! at Aral Balkan
by Aral Balkan October 09, 2006 @ 5:01 am

Famous last words

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by billy October 09, 2006 @ 6:36 am

Like every other poster said, wake up and use foxit reader to display pdf...

And for creating PDFs in the "distiller" way, use the open PDF creator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Also you can save directly to pdf (without sending print content to some virtual PDF printer) with Open Office.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Glenn October 09, 2006 @ 7:33 am

I can print anything to PDF with my Mac :-)

I use FoxITReader (first comment) and it pretty much covers all the complaints in the article. Loads fast, uses very little memory, you can highlight parts of the text (and it stays saved like that) and grab text easily to paste in other Apps. Oh - free too.

# Mac OSX preview works just great
by chris October 09, 2006 @ 9:08 am

If you have OSX, it "just works" in Preview in the OS. Great for viewing the PDF's out there that are forced on you by many sites. Nice and lean even on a 700 mhz G4 processor.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Artsnoozer October 09, 2006 @ 9:08 am

Thanks: your piece changed my life.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl October 09, 2006 @ 12:15 pm

Chris,

And it might in Windows too, if Adobe wasn't selective about who it gives it's 'free and open standards' license for...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by reeses October 11, 2006 @ 11:18 am

By the way, you lost any e-books with DRM you may have bought. Another nice side benefit to the upgrade.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by redir October 12, 2006 @ 6:00 am

I just Googled, "I fucking hate pdf's" and it took me here :)

I truly hate the damn things and now I am going to be responsible for a document management system interface to the web that will be in all PDF. God help me...

redir

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Linda Luckett October 19, 2006 @ 9:47 am

I want to be counted among the Adobe Acrobat HATERS!! I just hit a pdf link in a web article I was reading ( Ive learned its NEVER worth it to open a pdf, but this was an accident) and of course the sickening ride began!!! After I pulled its plug with task manager, I Googled "am I the only one that HATES Adobe Acrobat" and Yay!!! what good company is here! I thought I was a lonley hater of the stupid hand, retarded zoom, f-uped scrolling, hog, pig, demanding,show off, self centered, inane Adobe. And wow, stumbled on a lot of real cool stuf here. Made my day! Like the other poster said, Rick Strahl, you the man! May the postings on this subject grow into the zillions! May the force be with us all!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Matthew Potato November 01, 2006 @ 7:11 am

I've been wrestling with putting a little JavaScript functionality into a PDF. The code works fine in Acrobat Professional, but of course Adobe has written "security" code to prevent most useful JavaScript from running in Acrobat Reader. What is really, really annoying is that I can't figure out what JavaScript code will run in Acrobat Reader and what code will just die when it hits one of Adobe's "security" obstacles. I have to use a second machine that doesn't have Acrobat Professional installed on it to open the PDFs to see if the JavaScript runs.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jen November 02, 2006 @ 10:46 am

My acrobat 5.0 just hangs there when it is opening. I get the acrobat logo page, but it just sits there.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Travis November 04, 2006 @ 12:06 pm

I finally had it with Acrobat crashing Firefox. I absolutely hate Acrobat. Thanks for the FoxIt link. I now advertise it on my website for viewing PDFs.

To FoxIt: I hope my site sends you plenty of business.

Thanks everyone.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by hosebag November 09, 2006 @ 10:20 am

We have adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional in Win2K and I just sent the following message company-wide

The "Evil" Adobe Tip-O-the-day

Tired of waiting for Adobe 6.0 Professional to open? It’s the evil plugins that cause the problem. Two ways to increase the boot speed:

1. Before opening, hold down the SHIFT key and boot the program (no plug-ins will load);

2. Or to permanantly disable plugin loading, go to:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\plug_ins

And change the name of this subdirectory, such as to:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\xplug_ins

This may disable important functions (but it has not broken anything for me yet). But its easy to reverse.

hosebag

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by fred November 12, 2006 @ 7:04 am

Yup!
It's more than likely all of those media names of programmer's carrying patents and trademarks of all of the secondary useless softwares associated to Acrobat are under specific contracts with the programmer's and Adobe,this results in the source code for each of those programs to be locked,the programmer's here I beleive is causeing both the over bloated software,and the over bloated price!...
Glad there was a thoughtful and nice person out there that let me know about how to find out how softwares work in memory,what they are doing durring install,and whats happening,this makes it alot easier to uninstall when you find out too late!
The latest full pro version was around 233mb,wow amazing isnt it?
But it has all of this corporate crap like meeting via Acrobat,what a crock of crap,who in the yell would want to communicate via Acrobat,when you can use a private connection,with encryption,it has a movie tool,a sound tool,a 3d tool.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by fred November 12, 2006 @ 7:09 am

Also wanted to say that the install file was 233mb but the actual extracted files once installed is a 1,727mb file.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by David November 27, 2006 @ 2:44 am

Yup, Adobe sucks ... I recently tried to order Acrobat from their online store but their system just rejected my order with no explanation, even though I'd entered everything perfectly. All attempts at getting just an explanation were stonewalled. Into the arms of competitors I go ...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Kryle November 28, 2006 @ 11:17 am

Why are you guys bothering with PDF? And what? someone expecting you to pull text out of PDF? and to edit them? First of all there are many alternatives to Acrobat reader that will most likely work better, even if you're working on print design. The main advantage of PDf is the embedded postscript which is does nothing on screen and for the average office printer. It seems like whoever is sending you stuff doesn't know what PDF is for, and how to use it (big surprise there). It sounds to me that you guys are developers and although I'm not a developer I feel your pain. I see people using the wrong applications all the time. If they want you to edit text why not use XML or even just plain text. Why is there the need to overcomplicate things?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rick Strahl November 28, 2006 @ 11:34 am

Eh, as much as I hate Acrobat it's a standard that is in use almost ubiquiously. It doesn't quite work to stick your head in the sand and hope it goes away. People will use it, people will send you documents with it and will expect you to fill it out at times (hopefully not often).

There are a other tools/options but they're not widely used and there's the problem. PDF is a relatively open standard, but unfortunately nobody's taking the effort to make Adobe actually feel like they have competition to produce a decent product.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by erick December 07, 2006 @ 11:53 pm

I cant uninstall my acrobat reader 7.08.

Today as i was upgrading my adobe acrobat reader from 7.08 to 8.0 but an error had occurred and the upgrade stopped.

I then tried to open my .pdf files, but to no avail the program had become corrupted.

So next I tried to install the Acrobat Reader 8.0 ( the most recent), but it says that the previous version could not be removed.

I then went on safe-mode and manually removed "adobe" from the Program files, but the computer still believes i have the program installed and i can't install the newer version.

would you please tell me what else i need to do so i can install the newest version (acrobat reader 8.0).

I think it might have something to do with the registry, but I'm not positive. I tried running registry cleaners, but the problem still persists.

can anyone help me with this problem, seems like people in adobe are worthless

please email me at xcalliber_604@hotmail.com

thanks

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by erick December 08, 2006 @ 8:25 pm

oh nevermind ...

I guess I'll just have to use foxit from now on...

hahaha, i thought it was just me that hated acrobat this bad..

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Haoming December 20, 2006 @ 10:29 pm

I also typed in Adobe sucks into google and got this page. This looks like a harbinger of the times when so many people start googling adobe sucks to find a place to express their frustration with such a lame piece of crap....

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by TomCat, the Project Controls Engineer December 23, 2006 @ 3:51 am

Rick,

I can totally relate to your situation with the editors sending you PDF files for final edits. I finally WON THE WAR at my company with upper management doing that to me. I flat out told them that I was walking off the job if they didn't send me their original Excel files.

I would receive up to 1200 pages of PDF pictures of Excel files. The all claimed that it contained sensitive data, blah blah blah.

I lined up another project control engr job and threatened to walk.......and the caved in! I now receive spreadsheets in their native Excel file format.

I'M MAD AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE......I HATE ADOBE!

TomCat, the project guy

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Adon January 12, 2007 @ 12:13 pm

Even in the worst days of crappy NT Workstation 4.0 no software asked you to reboot as many times as Adobe's POS Acrobat still does today in 2007! I just installed a "critical security update" from 7.08 to 7.09 and it has asked me to reboot THREE TIMES...I was actually wondering if it fell in some endless loop and would keep asking me to reboot everytime I logged in. Thankfully it stopped after the third time. What other software on the market requires 3 reboots after a minor version update?? I have just two words for the engineers at Adobe: "ROLLUP PATCHES".....

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by WalterS January 15, 2007 @ 3:54 pm

Completely agree. Wow, I’m so glad others feel the same as I do. Adobe lags badly when opening PDF files (isn't that what it was built for?). The download is huge. The price for the full Standard/Pro versions are outrageous. Foxit is impressive, fixes most of the issues I have with Adobe.

A friend of mine told me about <a href=”http://www.nitropdf.com”>Nitro PDF</a>. He loves it. I’ve only used it briefly but my initial impressions of it are that it’s much faster than Adobe and has tge same functionality as Acrobat. I'm willing to use anything that competes with Adobe :-)

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Tom H. January 19, 2007 @ 12:36 pm

Oh man, I don't have time to get into all the problems I've seen recently.

I've been messing with Acrobat 8.0 and Live Cycle Designer 8.0. No one product has the exact set of features I need unless I go with the whole Live Cycle Suite of products. And there aren't clear directions on mixing all the detailed features I need.

Let me just give you guys this one story.

I had a bunch of conflicts with Acrobat 5.0 and reader 7.0.8. One week, when I decided to fix all my stuff, I couldn't even download any free readers. Everytime I got to an Adobe reader download page, the link to start the download was missing. I think the Adobe site was like that for at least a week.

If I'm going to have crazy schedules at work, the least the software vendors could do is get their acts together. The day is coming when quality companies (those that don't rush incomplete products to market) are going to kill the market place. ...Just like the Japanese did with cars in the '80's.

# Julie Lerman Blog - February, 2005
by Julie Lerman Blog January 23, 2007 @ 11:48 am

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by I think Adobe just plain sucks January 26, 2007 @ 9:14 pm

Why can't adobe even put together a webpage without broken links. They flatout suck and would and will continue to shaft them on everything they make becuase they should realize that when we pay for things with our hard earned money it had better work right.

Fuck you Adobe.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Huseyin January 28, 2007 @ 9:21 am

Oh it's kind of refreshing to see other people who share my ongoing pain with Acrobat Reader. What a complete failed piece of software is it?

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Scott February 02, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

Like most people here I had an extremely hard time getting my browser to work because Adobe 7 kept crashing my IE browser. Every time I opened a PDF intentionally or not, I had to force a "three finger salute" to get the Windows Task Master to end the program - if I was lucky! Most often I had to reboot because it messed up so many other working programs.

Worst of all, I could not delete the program or reinstall it. I went to their website to find out how to manually delete it but they did not have a solution. A Google search led me to the best solution by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 Download this and find the offending program and delete it. It worked amazingly well when no other solutions existed.

I am now a convert to other freeware PDF programs, thanks to the advice of the intelligent users of this site. I would hope Adobe would get wind of this site and take heed of all that is said about them and change for the better.

# re: I hate new version of Adobe because it hogs 100% of my CPU all the time!
by Dee February 08, 2007 @ 9:37 am

THANK YOU SO MUCH RICK FOR OPENING UP THIS SUBJECT ON A BLOG! And thank all of you who kindly added your comments to Rick's.

I was using an older version of Adobe for several years without too many problems or gripes, but then I got duped into uploading the newest version while using the US Post Office site to print postage labels. As soon as I loaded it, I knew something was different. I use my computer for work. If it doesn't work, I don't work (and I can't put bread on the table). After uploading 7.0 my computer bogged down to a standstill, and when researching out what the problem was, I discovered that Adobe was sucking up 100% of my CPU all the time!

I immediately did a search to see if others had this problem, and came across Rick's site. Before I read these wonderful comments, I thought Adobe was the only game on the planet for reading PDF files. I'm so glad there are options! I am now using Foxit thanks to reading comments on this blog, and it works just as described; fast, in the background and is universes ahead of Adobe.

I agree with others that more people need to complain publically about the problems with Adobe. I already talked one of my wonderful post office workers and told them about how my use of Adobe, as recommended on their site, virtually crashed my computer. Adobe and USPS may be linked together in a business way, but if complacency is the only reason they recommend Adobe, maybe I can work up the chain and get them to offer Adobe AND alternative PDF readers on their site...or even scrap Adobe all together.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Daniel Read February 15, 2007 @ 12:56 pm

Everyone here is correct: Acrobat 7 is a total piece of crap. I've lost two hours just today screwing with it. I'm in the same boat as a few other people: I can't get the damn thing to uninstall!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Lou February 25, 2007 @ 11:46 am

I no longer purchase any adobe products due to both the poor technical quality, the irritating installation hoops, and the poor value of the upgrades. I have thousands of dollars in Adobe software, and all I can say is that the first 3 or 4 versions of new products are core dump quality, the upgrade costs for the crappy versions is prohibitive, the value of the upgrades is really really poor, and now they want to run a bunch of background processes on my box like they own it or something.

I really can no longer take this abuse from Adobe, so I am no longer an Adobe customer. Hey, its their loss.....Now I no longer spend the usual $1500 per year maintenance......

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Piers April 04, 2007 @ 3:29 pm

I have just loaded the free Abobe Reader 8.0 - which has completely taken over my standard Acroba6 6.0 full programme. All the menu options, icons, etc, to launch Acrobat 6 have been 'inveigled' by Reader 8. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhh.

Piss off Adobe - stop f********* around endlessly with these programmes.

I am off to find some alternatives

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Zeusest April 26, 2007 @ 7:21 pm

This is an eMail I sent to Adobe:
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April 26, 2007

If I were working for Adobe, I would be looking for another job! Your products quality does NOT change w/ the advancing technology from 2002 to 2007.

Today, I uploaded your newest version of Adobe Reader 8.0 needed for a govt. website and utilized the print function. The quality was no better than my first computer, a 1986 Commodore 64. Your difficult to use and same OLD icons never change even though I sat through nearly 10 minutes waiting for my DSL to up-load the 20MB+ of an up-grade then the long install. Yes, the install was an UP-GRADE! You know, if you can’t get an upgrade done with 5MB or less your “IT” boys and girls need to go back to high school and take a refresher course.

Okay, fine…If I'm going to sit through a 10 minute + up-grade, give me a product with a new look and some new functions. At the very least, have Adobe work with DivXin and Netscape auto PDF files, not have to call home to Mommy every time there is a PDF file Netscape needs to open, make Shockwave at least represent it’s name, every time on start-up STOP trying to update the registry - it slows down the computer, make a better sizing ability for pages and providing an easy scrollable view of the data, print-outs need to be much more clear, make the uninstall program totally and completely comprehensive. Oh, and the callout tool, it looks like it was put together by a grade school programming less-then wiz-kid. There are more suggestions but if you can’t figure it out I’m not going to tell you…

I’m selling my Adobe stock! Looks like your old “ADBE” is FINALLY back to the same sell price as it was prior to September 11, 2001 - SEVEN YEARS AGO!!!… Your product is a shameful reflection of the strong Native American Pueblo Indians who used Adobe to build the structure of their culture… “Boo” to the developers and “Boo” to the CEO Bruce Chizen! What? à “Chizen” ß What? Goodbye Adobe and Hello FoxIt Reader!

My Real Name

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I sent this to: newsflash @ hvm.macromedia . com & cs-auto @ adobe . com I wish I had a better address…

Zeusest

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Rex Henderson May 01, 2007 @ 3:49 pm

I am glad there are sooo many out there that agree with my opinion. Adobe products are the worst pieces of crap. No two products seemlessly work together, they each have functionality I need in the other. The editing ability of Adobe Professional 7.0 I would call moronic and inept. MSPaint has better editing!!! The list of gotchas goes on and on.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Henry Ford May 04, 2007 @ 7:41 am

Adobe Acrobat appears to big for its boots. We appear to be using Acrobat 7.0. During the install we need to restart 4 times. 4 bloody restarts. WHY?

It's a file reader, it's not part of the Hardware Abstraction Layer. It's not even got drivers for the hardware. At worst It's simply an add-on for windows explorer. Why does it think it's so big it can get away with asking for restarts. Not even installing drivers for USB cameras etc require restarts.

Obviously you have to close your browser and previous reader for the install to work but why can't it just kick or restart the explorer when it's done (Like during a windows theme change). Maybe adobe don't know how to restart the explorer. If adobe acrobat does legitametly require restarts, what the heck is a simple file reader doing to the system to require it?

Also why does it insist on downloading and installing 4 separate updates? Why can't it just download them all at once, then install them all at once. It's a waste of our IT guys time to sit and watch a PC restart 4 f'ing times.

Oh and it's slow to load and has really awful sloppy coding in the VBA macros.

hrf out

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by QP May 06, 2007 @ 1:48 am

Hey folks: Most of the things you complain about are Windows problems, that don't at all appears with Acrobat (or any other application) in Mac OSX. Restarting my computer while installing software? Hardware drivers for individual applications? Never heard of it...

PDF has long been the standard file format in the printing business. Some printers refuse to take PDFs generated in Windows, because Windows support for PDF is so poor - and most users don't know the basics (like the difference between display resolution and printing resolution).

The important thing with PDF is the ability to preserve all typographic details when moving a file from one computer to another, or from display to print. That a stripped and downsized version of the file might easily be viewed on different platforms is only a bonus.

With Mac OSX you don't need Acrobat to read or create PDF documents - though you'll need advanced software to add interactivity (which means Word won't do).

Instead of cursing Acrobat and Adobe, you should curse Microsoft for sabotaging (as they always do) things they don't control themselves. As for 'bloatware': Adobe makes applications for professional designers. If you're not a professional designer, I'm sure there's simpler applications that cover your needs...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by JC May 10, 2007 @ 1:45 pm

I will immediately purchase at a reasonable price any software with the same or better features and quality that competes against any Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec software that I currently use, including Vista, Office 2007, Acrobat, and Norton Internet Security.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by j June 08, 2007 @ 3:20 am

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutions/

Notice how on the acrobat site professionals in the clipart are actually using pen and paper and looking at each other face to face.

Ironic isn't it?

# Jani Järvinen - Blog Archive - June, 2006
by Jani J?rvinen's Personal Weblog June 12, 2007 @ 12:38 pm

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Zeusest June 30, 2007 @ 1:01 pm

To, "by j" You are soo kool! That's way to funny! Now, there was a blog just above "by QP" May 06, 2007 @ 1:48 am. He is VERY correct! I am dumping my PC and turning to the BRIGHT side. Enough with all the viruses’ up-grades! My brother has used Apples & MAC’s for more than a decade and a half. I am always amazed when he shows me the awesome power his Mac has to offer. He’s showed me how a MAC is capable of fast plug and play, it doesn't crash NEARLY as often (OS X is UNIX-based), it offers the best in digital music (iTunes, iPod), it provides the missing link in digital photography (iPhoto), it serves as a digital entertainment center (iLife, iMovie, iDVD), it's built for the Internet (email, iChat, QuickTime, AirPort), Windows applications have Macintosh equivalents (Microsoft Office for Mac), it networks with PCs (Ethernet, AirPort, USB, FireWire), ease of configuring TCP/IP, far faster more comprehensive graphic design capability, better tech support, and much, much more – whew! I hope my PC friends will still like me…

Zeusest
~ The One & Only

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by grg July 11, 2007 @ 5:20 am

As a guidepost, back in 1986 we wrote a page viewer for the Mac. Targeted at a Mac Plus with 1MB of memory and 8MHz CPU, it was quite possible to display many pages per second from a PICT file. The app was all of 142kb.

So why cant Adobe Reader do as least as well with 500 times the memory and 200 times the CPU speed? Methinks there's some bloat in there.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by William Gates III July 13, 2007 @ 4:32 pm

I love you Adobe acrobat hater!

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by John August 08, 2007 @ 1:34 pm

Adobe 8 is worse than 7 worse than 6. Oh my god. I hate adobe people.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by ExterminateAdobe August 25, 2007 @ 4:18 pm

Adobe is one of the worse software's i've ever used! And have you seen the number of packages / applications that they have in their website! they should be offering a free pc to run their applications only!

i use Foxit pdf reader, it embraces the future of technology, where everything is getting smaller and smaller in size .. foxit is ultra small (2.1mb), loads ultra fast and is a pleasure to use ..

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/techsupport/showfaq.htm#rdr_01

unlike the "please buy a cell processor + dedicated RAM and HDD" for me adobe acrobat reader .... please for the love of God, stop using that rubbish software!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by simon September 06, 2007 @ 6:39 pm

dude your so on the money over 2 years later and it still sucks as hard as ever.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Peter September 06, 2007 @ 6:53 pm

Foxit ROCKS! I'm SOOO sick of Adobe Reader. It takes forever to load, and it's a pain in the ass to use. The text quality is crap, and it takes me forever to navigate back and forth between it and the web.

I downloaded Foxit 2.1 and it's SO quick. It really is awesome. Thanks for the link, guys. I'll never look back.

Adobe, get your shit together.

PR

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Clint September 18, 2007 @ 11:41 am

I've hated adobe ever since the first pdf I ever had to generate. Using ASP, VB.Net, C#.Net, Acrobat Pro, several free acrobat conversion utilities, ... It takes forever for me to get something that works consistently, and once I do get something solid Adobe comes out with another reader that isn't backwards compatible and I have to redo something.

I think if I ever run into a developer that works for Adobe I'm going to punch them in the face.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by helal September 24, 2007 @ 1:17 am

Oh God, I am in deep shit with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.7. I just don't understand how to get rid of it now. It doesn't have an uninstaller. No more of this shit. Can any one help me out of this now pleaseeeeeeeeee. Mail me advise at helaluddin@hotmail.com.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by BluScarab September 27, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

I can't believe I actually BOUGHT this crapware!!! I run hundreds of MS Enterprise Exchange Servers across the globe without hitches, hickups, or headaches other than hardware failures and even those are easy since the systems are failsafe. But this Acrobat "PRO" is causing me more headaches than a Ferrari with a blown timing belt. What I don't understand is that this is basically a VIEWER. It doesn't render special effects for ILM, build complex accounting spreadsheets, or make engineering plans for a Boeing 777. It doesn't calculate volumes for earth work, design a new freeway, or model the weather in 3D. And surely it doesn't guide a Tomahawk cruise missile, run the NASDAQ backup domain servers, or host the Halo online gaming community. Yet, the applications that do these things on a daily basis run SO MUCH BETTER than a simple fucking VIEWER from Adoobie. Maybe I should work for them so I can show them nongnong heads how REAL programs are written that run REAL applications that the world economies depend on...or maybe just to get back my 450 bucks!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by spanatko October 30, 2007 @ 10:45 am

cool Adobe ultra fast software works on Mac`s!!! I think I am going to buy one right now!!!
That is exactly the kind of attitude people need - need to open a document? - Buy other hardware!!! Everything from Adobe is simply lame, needs years to install, interferes with anything which is running. But yes, now I have the solution - I am going to buy a Mac - so I am a smart dipshit... exactly

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Ghostscript 8.6 / GSView 4.6 Kicks ass! (And available in x64 flavor too)
by Yuck_Fu November 07, 2007 @ 11:49 pm

I havent tried any of the other PDF Readers, but I can tell you from personal experience that Ghostscript is VERY fast and not a resource hog like Acrobat!!

(Ghostscript 8.60) Approx 12MB
<url>https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=108733&release_id=529280</url>

(GSView) Approx 1.8MB
<url>http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get48.htm</url>

Both programs are required to be installed and GSView is the frontend for Ghostscript. GSView is packed with features so give it a shot, it kicks Acrobat's ASS! (Well that doesn't
say much though does it hahaha)

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by varth dader November 20, 2007 @ 7:57 am

I worry about the future of Macromedia products, now that Adobe has taken over.

Adobe Audition is cool because Adobe didn't create the program, they bought the company.

So yes, I am apprehensive about a big growing company like Adobe, which publishes bloated, inefficient programs, taking over software teams that know how to produce good software with good programming code. The worry is that Adobe will spoil the products of these purchased companies.

Adobe are you listening? Adobe Reader is your flagship product. Improve your rep by getting it right.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Hank Castello November 26, 2007 @ 10:12 am

Rick, looks like you've started a thread that may go on for a decade!

I gotta agree with you that Reader is a dog, but those who are slamming Premiere Pro and Adobe's other video editing tools are off-base in my opinion.

I've been using Premiere Pro for years and have gone through several updates. I currently work with PP 2.0; Encore 1.5; Audition 1.5; and a version of AE that is about five years old. I do not encounter any problems when video editing with Adobe products. None whatsoever. Sure, I get the occasional Windows crash - but you get those whatever software you run.

The new Adobe suite - 3.0 is sitting on my desk and I'll upgrade as soon as I finish this season's wedding videos (two left to edit and one left to shoot). Everyone has their favorite NLE and seems to be loyal to it, but aside from all that - Adobe Premiere Pro; Encore; Audition; After Effects; Photoshop and Illustrator are all fine tools and I recommend them.

- Hank Castello
http://www.WeddingVideoDoneRight.com

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by werwer December 28, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

You're first on Google now , with "I hate adobe reader"

Congrats!

Well, just wanted to say I hate it too!

Made this search just after installing a fresh version (8 or something, I've lost count), on a fresh windows.
AND just moments after installing the latest downloadable version, i get that annoying update nag.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by shizzle January 22, 2008 @ 2:43 pm

1st comment of 2008!

For all it's faults and flaws I never quite hated Acrobat until NOW. Over the years I learned to adapt to it's inherant crappyness and learn to work around it's faults. At least all of the buttons and whiz-wheels were standard... Until version 8. Now it has a completely redesigned interface. Might as well be in Martian.

I HATE ADOBE ACROBAT -- ESPECIALLY VERSION 8!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Allan February 02, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

HA! I Googled "I hate Acrobat" and found this blog. It appears I am not alone. I couldn't get to add/remove programs fast enough to bid good riddance to Acrobat 8. It adds BHO's to IE and a rediculous start up process in Task Manager. Ironically, the process is supposed to speed up pdf loading while simultaneously robbing system memory at boot. I don't know if my hatred for pdf's is rational or not and I don't care. I never liked that damned program or format anyway. There, I'm done spewing my venom :).

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Larry February 08, 2008 @ 11:24 pm

I agree wholeheartedly. The way Acrobat constantly asks to update itself and automatically inserts itself in word as a toolbar is enough. Even worse it's almost impossible to exorcise Acrobat from being the default Mac OS X Safari reader. (instead of Apple's excellent Preview app)

Even more, I hate most of their other products. I'm convinced Photoshop has the most f*cked up interface ever developed. With any of the (formerly) Macromedia products I can start them up and be working in minutes because the interface some sense to me. With Pshop I'm constantly going to the help files...usually because the feature I wanted required to hold Vtrl-Shift-Whatever to reveal it.

Somebody should send this to Adobe...they really need to get their sh*t together.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Doug February 20, 2008 @ 3:00 am

***** Wow, I have friends on the net. *****

I Recently installed Acrobat 8 Pro. Every time I load a document Adobe grabs somewhere between 55 and 65 MB of memory. Close the document and Adobe keeps that chunk of memory. Now load another document and there goes another 55-65 MB. After every 3 or 4 open documents I have to Alt-Ctrl-Del and use task manager to shut down the 3 or 4 instances of Adobe to be able to use my computer or everything slows to a crawl.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Randy February 22, 2008 @ 9:05 pm

I'm a contract manager and I f*cking hate Adobe. I have to do so much extra work because of these arseholes. Adobe= bloated, worthless, sh1tty f*cking software.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Aiti March 11, 2008 @ 10:53 am

Adobe totally sucks. Their own updater is both annoying and doesn't work for CS3. Their support is completely unhelpful. I don;t want their stupid bloated reader to come up when I open a pdf. I don't want their stupid Office 2008 plugin. I don;t want any of their stupid messages to pop up when I open apps. I can't believe windows users get used to that crap.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by tom745 March 17, 2008 @ 11:00 am

what a piece of crap adobe is. google adobe sucks and this is the page. It is great. every time i open a pdf there is some bs scan and there are always updates--today even one to cause a restart!!!! what a joke. adobe is a total piece of junk

# me too
by really vexed March 25, 2008 @ 8:41 am

Oh yes, this is a blog that can only grow and grow. I am personally going to spank that overused bloatware until it promises to go and live on an island with realplayer.NO MORE! do you hear me?
NO MORE!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Max March 29, 2008 @ 11:41 pm

Amen, brother.
I use Acrobat Reader 5. Every version since then has been worse than the last -
slow, resource pig, crash prone, and GOD all the animated pop-uppy JUNK!
I NEVER even try to open a .pdf inside any browser on any O/S. 90% of the time,
it just locks up the browser. Save to disk, and open separately is the only way.

These app writers need to learn about FUNCTION and forget about the FORM.

I also use Office97 when I'm on a PC at work - every version of MS Office since
then has been slow, bloated, hard to use, buried functions in menus, man... what a mess.

Of course, on my HOME machines, which are all Macs, to HELL with Adobe and Microsoft.
It's the built-in "Preview" to read .pdfs, and FREE Open Office for office stuff,
and FREE Gimp for image editing.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by ALIH5308 April 05, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

After trying to find a way to tell Adobe how I feel about their products I gave up. They are intent on NOT giving the consumer a way to reach them. So, I am posting my feelings here.

Kudos to all of you who actually got Adobe CrapShit3 to actually install. I bought Design Premium and Soundbooth. After several weeks I finally got Design Premium to install. BTW. Not only can you not get it to install without almost reconfiguring you computer, you can't get the darn thing OFF your computer if it doesn't install properly.

I am still trying to install Soundbooth. A suggestion on the Adobe website is to clear out your computer, then reinstall your operating system and put everything back on, along with Soundbooth. How whack is that?

I did write to the forums. One expert said he was stumped and that I need to call tech support (and pay them to help me install their own flawed product). I keep checking for updates and fixes but I have not seen any yet.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Detroit Girl April 18, 2008 @ 8:57 pm

I tried to order an upgrade to CS3 via the phone it took 45 minutes.

They sent me a Windows version when I ordered a MAC. To return the damn thing it took another hour on the phone with 'customer service'.
I had to fax all these codes...yes I said FAX to get the Windows version cancelled. Then they had the nerve to tell me it will take 30 to 45 days to credit my CCard $650. Now all I want is an even exchange for the Mac version mind you.

2.5 hours to get this CS3 upgrade. I am not all that happy with the software but I am running Leopard so the upgrade is mandatory. If you don't have to upgrade to CS3 don't do it. The software needs patches daily. It has been out for well over a year.

If my graphics business did not demand this software I would not touch the stuff. Adobe has bought many Mac based graphics programs so I am stuck.

I have been creating digital graphics for 15 years. What have they done to this company?

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Dave April 22, 2008 @ 3:40 pm

ABOBE is a Fucked Up Company.
There head is so far up there ass.

DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS.

They have destroyed Macormedia products. There customer service sucks and there new products don't even work correctly.

DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS. DON'T BUY ADOBE PRODUCTS.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by mat April 27, 2008 @ 1:49 pm

if you dont like.pdf dont use it :P

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Brent Kitchens April 30, 2008 @ 2:39 pm

I just spent the last 1/2 hour trying to figure out why my Adobe Professional Full version 6.0 software no longer worked. The icon was still there, the menu item was still there, the program files folder was still there....BUT...whenever I tried to launch it, ADOBE FRIGGIN READER 8 WOULD LAUNCH!!!

What, exactly, does Adobe's "development" staff think we, the development community, will do if the KEEP HOSING UP OUR MACHINES AND INSTALLATIONS?

I had to uninstall Adobe 8 to get my Pro 6.0 back. I was pissed off at them before for little things like...if you want a checkbox to be on or off, yes or no, in an abobe form, you have to set yes to "yes" and no to "off", (what a bunch of friggin retard developers came up with this little nugget), or the fact that just about all of their user interfaces are about as intuitive as quantum physics.

But now, they automatically UNINSTALL/DISABLE a working verion of their own buttheaded software when one installs the free version of their reader?

This company is either run by morons or Satan.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Brent Kitchens April 30, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

One more quick little nugget about this bunch of brainless, witless, spineless idiots.

We just tried to order 65 licenses for Adobe Pro at work, (not my choice at all, but one made by the geniuses where I work. And no, they didn't listen to me about this...obviously).

Well, it turns out that the media for these 65 copies of Adobe Pro are instock and on the way.
However, the license codes are backordered.

How in the hell can a license code, made out of electrons, be backordered?!
Another example of the fine professional quality product and service available from Adobe.

I expect everyone know what Adobe is, but maybe not. It's a mixture of Caliche and mud and water, meant to be thrown against a wall. The indians of the SW US would sometime mix in some bull or sheep shit as well.

Seems that the name fits this company well.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by crandf June 10, 2008 @ 8:59 pm

I hate Adobe too for a variety of reasons.

1) Version 5 or 6 used to lock up my browser every now and then, before I learnt it was adobe's fault I would open taskmanager and kill off my poor innocent browser, nowadays I go straight for the kill, DIE ADOBE READER!!!!! And my browser would start working again!

2) In my office, I have Vista, Office and adobe acrobat 7. Whenever I had 2 or more doc files opened at the same time, there would be this effing infuriating lag when I switched from one doc file to the other. Turns out it was the Word had this adobe acrobat plugin, once I disabled this bloody plugin, no more lag!

3) Once I left my PC on the whole night with several pdfs opened by themselves as well opened in my browser. Next day, I found that certain functions like cut and paste, unzipping files, installing programs, as well as certain files wouldn't work anymore. Restarting did no good. I spent days and nights trying to debug and even thought about resorting to a reformat. Finally I found out that Adobe had created millions and zillions hidden files in one of the temporary folders in my user folder in Documents and Settings. The number of files had exceeded the max for 32bit computers, so no more new files could be created. Windows explorer just hanged when I tried opening that folder. Even "del *" in the cmd.exe window couldn't work, I just knew there was a lot from the folder properties. I had to resort to "del 0*", "del 1*", "del a*", etc before finally getting rid of them all.

Congratulations Adobe, for making so much money out of the most troublesome software in the world. Even Microsoft is much better than you.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by anon June 17, 2008 @ 5:02 am

Someone needs to go back in time and kill everyone involved with creating Adobe.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Garfield June 18, 2008 @ 2:38 am

The Adobe people are mind bogglingly arrogant in both attitude and architecture.

Recently installed Adobe 8 Pro at the behest of the corporate boys ... man what a POS.

You wouldn't believe how bloated and arrogant software could be, permissions for even system admins revoked by Adobes software to adobe files, temporary and otherwise, licensing that fails if you happen not to be connected to a network for any length of time.

This POS has been removed forcibly from my machine and installed into a Virtual Machine - I don't give a rats sphincter what it does in there but they can keep their shite off my 'physical' machines.

Adobe F U

You have proved yet again why a normal person should never install your crap.

# Weight loss cream
by Weight loss cream June 23, 2008 @ 6:46 pm

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by NNM June 24, 2008 @ 5:04 am

I so agree...
But I would add a general complaint against ALL adobe programs.
As a programmer, over time, I've been forced to have most of their products installed, which ads a dozen processes I DO NOT WANT running.
Sometimes I actually need every last kb of ram, or processor to do what I need to do.
When I install one program, I expect it to create ONE folder in program files and NOT even try anything else. Adobe fails at this simple task every time, I've stopped/deleted most their processes and useless files. Just need to manually start FLEXlicensing every time I want to run Photoshop now, which is a smaller NAG than Adobe gives me by default.
Just received an unwated Adobe update message, so I ended here after googling "disable fucking Adobe update".

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by JoeBlogg August 03, 2008 @ 9:41 pm

I concur.... acrobat reader REALLY sucks ... it's slow.. it's bloated and I HATE how it sticks it's damn logo in my face then rapes my internet browser...

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by John Gates October 17, 2008 @ 6:00 pm

Let's be clear here.
In the beginning there was John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.
And things were good.
These were 2 men that had an innovative idea, and in a time of FAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES, they created good products that helped the lives of others.
What we have now is the Evil Empire, the Dark Star, that has grown from 2 men into an abomination of business that kills free business practices and prevents new competitors from coming to market.
Where is the Federal Trade Commission? If you thought the Wall Street deregulation and collapse was bad -forget about Small Businesses having a chance to compete.
Things in the free market are very bad right now. AS a software business owner competing against Adobe I'm looking at exiting the USA.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Al T November 08, 2008 @ 4:25 am

I can sayonly one thing. I just paid $500 for Acrobat 9. It sucks, I had to force uninstall it and it screwed my registry up. I will NEVER again install ANY Adobe product on any system I have and will not buy any system where it is preinstalled. The licensing sucks, the support sucks, the product sucks. It does not work correctly with Vista which is another program that sucks!!!! These clowns are simply stealing peoples money. So take this as a warning if you are considering either Acrobat or Vista. I am going MAC 100% from here on out. Both Adobe and Microsoft can kiss my A%&

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Tom the Tom November 18, 2008 @ 3:01 pm

Stupid lawyers sending stupid PDFs. I'm going to cry if I have to convert another PDF.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even WAY more now!)
by Matt January 08, 2009 @ 5:19 pm

Have to add a comment to this classic string. It's really unbelievable how bad Acrobat reader is. So many annoyances. I have to say dealing with Acrobat Reader has now eclipsed the pain caused by dealing with the old Real player. And that I think is saying a lot.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Gustavo Martins January 26, 2009 @ 6:07 am

Yes, Acrobat Reader is crapware!

But... I read someone here is trying to make a product to compete with Adobe, so let´s help him!
Rick, could you put a survey in your blog for people to check "What are the good things a PDF system should be and what are the things it definitely shoudn´t be, based on your Acrobat experience". So we get a ranking of the most annoying features and stuff, and he can develop a system with that in mind!

I would list as bad things, in order of relevance:
1) Crashes on browser use
2) Too difficult to copy text´s excerpts
2) Too slow for loading files
3) There´s ALWAYS a update, but they NEVER FIX the most ridiculous problem: browser viewing
4) Lot´s of useless stuff on it

Good things:
1) PDF documents are beautiful
2) That little hand is helpful to navigate

Good things:

# Just as bad as they were in the Nineties
by Tired Ofit March 25, 2009 @ 8:52 am

I would personally like to see Adobe end their course because their stuff sucks. With computers as fast as they are today why do their applications have to run in the background. Only open it when I need it! All of my crashes come from Adobe. Printing is a pain in the ass until I go to the Task Manager and kill their shit. Damn I hate these guys!
Adobe You SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Dallas March 26, 2009 @ 9:28 pm

Installing acrobat reader 9.0 takes ages! They are stuffing tons and tons of strings into your windows registray and adds files to all places: startup, system32.

I got here by typing "hate acrobat" into google.

When people talk about a replacement, I don't think we need a replacement software as I never never know why we need an extra file type!

Why do I need to install acrobat reader 9.0?

I am a translator and a potential client sent me an application form in ACROBAT READER 9.0 format. I have to upgrate. So I did! After this and that, I filled the form and clicked SUMBIT. Then I was told my submission is added to the queue. What the XXXX is this? Is my form sent? I never know. A single web based form will do the data collection job perfectly. I hate those company's who use Adobe solutions.

Dallas

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Adz May 27, 2009 @ 3:41 pm

Adobe acrobat can go suck a big one!

Trying to print from it just takes 5 minutes from my PC.

Keep up the good work Rick. Hope fully the message will get through to them one day.

Adz

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Huckleberry May 29, 2009 @ 2:11 pm

What can I say that hasn't been said in the four years this post has been up?

I am not an IT guy or proverbial rocket scientist, just an end user. Man, Adobe is a PITA. If my PC is hanging, I know it's 99.99% likely an Acrobat issue, so it's off to CTRL-ALT-DEL / Applications and End Process for Acrobat to get things moving again.

Why, on the load-in screen, do I care to see the several dozen Adobe patents? Hint: I don't. That's what Help / About is for, INSIDE the program, for those who seek it.

Like others, when I "upgraded" to Acrobat Reader 7, it hijacked all my file associations with the full version of Acrobat 6. Had to uninstall Acrobat 7 and re-associate everything with 6. And I only know what I'm doing enough to get my way through once in a while. The babyboomers here never had a chance, believe me. Yeah, these are both old version numbers as of this writing, and they're also while I never will do any more Acrobat upgrades.

I will close by adding to the most entertaining part of this blog's page, my contribution to "how I found this blog." I Googled "why does adobe acrobat take so long to open?"

Good luck, everyone.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Petie July 22, 2009 @ 9:31 am

Wow, even 4 years later from the blog post, Acrobat Reader STILL SUCKS! I hate it! HATE IT I TELL YA!

Now my hissy fit's over. I think there's an open source alternative I'll go dig up.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Itelica August 02, 2009 @ 1:58 am

We bought Adobe Standard 6.0 a few years ago at great expense. Now we find the Reader in this version won’t read PDFs created in version 9!! The buffoon that decided to make a piece of software that’s whole purpose is to make documents ‘portable’ between disparate systems completely unreadable between its own differing versions needs to be relieved of their job.

We use Foxit to read PDFs now without any problems. And if we want to create PDFs Open Office’s Writer does this very nicely. So actually, to read and create PDFs we don’t go anywhere near Adobe.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ih8PDF August 04, 2009 @ 1:34 am

I've had to uninstall and reinstall it 9 times! It will work for only 1 PDF file when I reinstall it, then it will break again. I wanna throw this computer out the window

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jarvik September 01, 2009 @ 12:33 pm

Adobe wanted to update so being the idiot I am I let it do so. Now the many basic features like copying text to the clipboard don't work! Christ I just want to copy and paste the title of Journal article into my chapter references but hell no! That feature is locked out! What possible reason is there in blocking the copying of text snipets??!

I hope whatever jackass thought this up to burn in a special pit of hell.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Ken September 03, 2009 @ 2:07 pm

Rick aswome! 213 comments and counting. Put me in the hate column. Sorry professional designers, if you think we are missing the point, but Adobe doesn't even give a shit about you compared to the ging avail. in the rest of the business world.

We had Adobe come in a few years back to deliver a server solution for converting word docs to pdf. The salesman was all smiles and the tech support guy with him all "yes we can". The server solution ended up being the same sheit that runs on the desktop with a queue in the front. Constant bombing and restarting. Monitoring their "server" product became a 50% FTE job. And we actually PAID for that. It's like, "thank you sir may I have another."

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by DJ September 19, 2009 @ 11:12 am

Everything about Acrobat sucks. It's a memory pig, and on top of that, the navigation controls are garbage. You can't do global text searches through your documents, so the information in PDF documents is practically worthless to me.

On top of that it's buggy, locks up frequently.

Even the little things, like the printer function... when you print 20 copies of one document, then open another document... it defaults to 20 copies of the second document.

Any application in it's 6th iteration and years of use, should have garbage like that fixed by now. I curse and spit on this POS company. I hope they go out of business like they deserve, and all their programmers never find another job

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Bernard September 22, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

Adobe makes you pay to download software if you have a volume license, but not for other types of licenses. You need to know this obscure fact in advance or you'll experience delays and hassles like me.

The free download service is called "Downloads", the pay service is called "Electronic Software Delivery". A fancy name and a more complicated interface is what you get for your money. Has anyone heard of such a thing from any other company?

Their full-of-themselves attitude shows up with their version name "CS4". I don't want to remember what the hell that means! How about something that makes sense like 2007 or 9.0? Products in that suite also go by at least 4 other version numbers:

Acrobat Professional 9.0
Photoshop Extended 11.0
Design Premium 4.0
InDesign 6.0

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Blogging Guide October 07, 2009 @ 7:30 am

Finally! someone who hates adobe as much as me, have you ever noticed that every new adobe reader version doubles in size from the previous version? What on earth are they adding to it to make it so big? All it needs to do is view pdf files!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Kgad October 08, 2009 @ 3:01 pm

PDF creation is essential if you need high compatibility for docs.
Everyone can read them, so the docs I send all over the country are readable.

Acrobat Pro works well for my needs.
From 5 to 8 to 9 I've never missed a beat.
Sucky thing is that when new version comes out, its hard to find an older version that you have keys to (say if you wipe your drive & have no disks)

But if its the pocketbook that is concerned, there are free resources

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/files/PDFCreator/

http://www.primopdf.com/

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by jairosoft October 22, 2009 @ 8:08 am

Wow, the software everyone loves to hate.
I do prefer Foxit. Haven't tried the other ones.

Excuse me if I go off on a tangent. I need help. Does anybody here know how to uninstall Acrobat Pro v 7.0 manually or any way? When I try to uninstall it the usual way, the computer freezes with a video output that looks like millions of vertical stripes of colors that were in the desktop at the moment just before it freezes. And I can't get the Acrobat Pro v 7.0 to update. I think the problem started when I went to get it updated. Now when I restart the computer and enter the desktop, the Acrobat Pro is always asking me to finish the update, and when I allow it finish it can't because it freezes the computer video again just as I get when I try to uninstall it.

I do have Foxit Reader installed on this computer and I would prefer it and I don't see why they would want to have the Acrobat Pro version as few in the office knows how to use it, but the IT manager wants every computer to have the Adobe product for consistency. I do have an Acrobat Pro v 8 but when I try to install it and it goes to uninstall the v 7 again it freezes the computer video and I get those vertical stripes.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by PDF Bear October 25, 2009 @ 11:45 am

Well as much as I like PDFs, I am equally annoyed by Adobe's upgrades, and pricing for that. As the world goes towards the paperlessn office, Adobe is there to GOUGE us with yearly full point upgrades.

I use a Mac, and it can save as PDF without any Adobe bloatware.

So F Adobe.

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by jairosoft October 26, 2009 @ 7:40 am

Update on my dilema mentioned Thurs Oct 22. Well I was able to manually uninstall Acrobat Pro, but it wasn't very pretty as I went through regedit and deleted anything with reference to Acrobat or Adobe and deleted folders of just about anything to do with Adobe Acrobat and related folders, and in System32 I deleted one that I suspected was part of the gang. Also a bunch of dll's in Common Files folders. Eventually the uninstall link for Acrobat disappeared from the list of programs that can be removed through Windows Uninstaller in the Control Panel. Then I tried installing the Adobe Acrobat version 8. But halfway through it again froze the video. So everything I tried to do pointed to some conflict between the Acrobat products and some driver in the motherboard, or something in Windows XP. So to make sure that it wasn't anything caused by a Windows Update, I installed another Windows XP (from the Windows XP setup CD) in a separate folder called Windows2 and skipped over the activation. I just wanted to see if I could install Acrobat with no problems. After getting a fresh installation of Windows XP on the same computer, I installed the drivers for the motherboard. Then I started installing Acrobat Pro 8.0, but again halfway through it froze the computer. I need to make one more test, and that would be to install Acrobat on another machine that has the same motherboard to see if it is a conflict with the motherboard drivers and Adobe Acrobat product.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jason November 25, 2009 @ 8:22 am

Screw acrobat.

It crashed a lot.

It didn't show documents right.

It had stupid windows that ended up in the background so you could never click "ok" on them and you just ended up with a frozen window.

And there would always be an auto-update icon that never worked, never finished, never went away. Sometimes it would drain the CPU until I went and closed it.

It took too long to load, too long to close, and too long to browse through a PDF.

Total crap. Not worth the time it took to download.

I use Foxit now. Never had a problem with the newest version, or a crash, or sat twiddling my thumbs waiting for my hard drive to calm down.

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by jeri December 07, 2009 @ 3:57 pm

adobe is the new quark. adobe sucks . these parasites have not developoed anything on their own NOT ONE program!!! these scumbags buy up good ideas and let their mba aholes figure out how to screw their customers. adobe is pathetic, on their own they have not come up with any products on their own. the masses suck up to these freaks, adobe is a despicable parasitic company ... like a growing number of freethinkers I HATE ADOBE!!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Jap December 15, 2009 @ 2:46 pm

ADOBE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

# re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Dave January 06, 2010 @ 1:07 am

I HATE ADOBE AND WE MAY HAVE TO START A WAY TO STOP THIS SHIT!

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re: I hate Adobe Acrobat (even more now!)
by Z.V. January 20, 2010 @ 1:56 pm

Googled "hate adobe reader" and found this. Let me join the group. One of the applications that only exists to update itself endlessly. Pathetic.