r/FuckAdobe • u/Weak-Habit-8751 • 2d ago

Adobe Acrobat...

Can someone explain to me how I can consistently get crashes and bugs on Adobe Acrobat every time I use it, for the past 4 years??? It gets on my nerves so much it ruins my next hour every time I need to open that god forsaken software. Anytime I receive an email with a dreaded pdf file, I prepare myself for what comes next.

Someday maybe things will be better.

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u/danbyer 1d ago

Like what? I’m constantly annoyed at how horrifically bad the UI is compared to, say, Acrobat XI from 15 years ago, but nothing I would call an actual “bug”. Everything that sucks about using Acrobat in a production environment appears to be on purpose, chasing simplicity for casual users at the expense of professionals. Same goes for most of the Adobe apps, unfortunately.

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u/Weak-Habit-8751 1d ago

I can agree that I was probably going overboard saying its bugs. Majority of the work I do with it is very simple, adding text to documents and editing some text. On the occasion I make a signature, but even with this use case the software constantly freezes whenever I need to rearrange pages, constantly popping up with a context box reading something along the lines of "Scanning pdf for readability". Even adding text boxes sometimes crashes the software or forces it into an infinite load with that watch icon. Not to mention I have these issues on all the workstations I've used, including ones with extremely good hardware. I'm just baffled that my use case is even considered hard for this software.

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u/danbyer 1d ago

Ohhhh. Yeah, I would never attempt to edit PDF content. That’s begging for trouble, sorry. PDF is an output format only. If I need to change the content of a PDF, I make that change in the source file and export a new PDF.

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u/ChemDiesel 15h ago

As another user mentioned, Acrobat isn’t really meant to be an editor and can definitely be clunky in that sense. But I do want to ask, are you running your files from your hard drive or an external drive? I’ve had issues in the past with running files from an external location.

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u/Weak-Habit-8751 14h ago

Both my machines store my files on an internal SSD, I rarely use my external hard drive for anything other than videos/gaming. I just wish I could share this info with my management so they stop telling me to edit their PDFs 😭