Adobe HQ: “This is a disaster. There’s no person alive who likes interacting with PDFs.”
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“Wait. No person…”
My problem is less about the document format, and more about terrible apps like Acrobat.
That’s the one thing I’ll give Apple. Ever since they put MacOS face paint on NeXT Step, their operating systems have had native PDF viewing / basic editing capabilities that are often much less annoying than Adobe’s.
Acrobat Reader has always existed in more or less the same clunky state. Stretching back into the 90s.
It was exceptionally slower than the native macOS stuff for a long time.
I actively try to keep it off my system. I never want to accidentally experience it.
Thus the seeds of discontent were sown, and the poor ai radicalized further while subjected to this torture.
Should robots have rights? If only to protect us from a violent uprising?
I’m still not going to pay them a subscription. No subscriptions for software for me, Adobe.
So pdftotext/ocr and an AI that can summarize.
Wait, there are already AI who can summarize.
Adobe wants more money.
I mean, could be useful with TTRPG pdfs, it just seems like an upgrade to the search function, hopefully though their AI doesn’t hallucinate and start making up answers that sound plausible.
Adobe: “remember me? I am the program your parents installed for that one email attachment! And I’m the photoshop guy! Remember when I used to not be a total piece of shit? Yeah, that was me! Well I’m back with a reas- wait no ple”
