Pirating Adobe software is exactly what they want you to do. Their business model relies on businesses paying for their license because people already know how to use their software, in large part because people pirate it, and also they have deals with schools to teach their software.
What Adobe actually doesn’t want you to do is to learn the software of their competition, since that’s how they will lose money in the long term.
The main reason we need to push for open source alternatives is this. The more people learn how to use them the more content around them we get and more people take interest in using it and helping develop it (and donate to it).
I went to Affinity Photo and Illustrator years ago, and I’m a fan. One time purchase, easy to use, and full tutorials from the creators on Vimeo. Only downside is that it’s only available on Apple devices. Turns out it’s available on Windows now too.
Pirating Adobe software is exactly what they want you to do. Their business model relies on businesses paying for their license because people already know how to use their software, in large part because people pirate it, and also they have deals with schools to teach their software.
What Adobe actually doesn’t want you to do is to learn the software of their competition, since that’s how they will lose money in the long term.
This. Right here.
The main reason we need to push for open source alternatives is this. The more people learn how to use them the more content around them we get and more people take interest in using it and helping develop it (and donate to it).
I went to Affinity Photo and Illustrator years ago, and I’m a fan. One time purchase, easy to use, and full tutorials from the creators on Vimeo.
Only downside is that it’s only available on Apple devices.Turns out it’s available on Windows now too.https://affinity.serif.com
And they have a -50% flash sale.
Imagine that timing.
Is there an open source PDF editor? I would really love anything other than acrobat.
You can host your own version of stirling. It’s open source and can do all sorts of things with pdf
https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
I use Figma at work hahaha