Archive for January 9th, 2007
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Adobe Reader is a bloated sack of crap
So, I needed to view a PDF on a new machine today and, of course, I head over to Adobe to snag a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or Adobe Reader, or whatever it’s called today. Version 7 is out now, unbeknownst to be me, and Adobe has apparently invented more reasons to increase its version number, system requirements, download size, memory usage, and decrease everything desired: speed, ease-of-use, and simplicity. And I still don’t use a single feature that I didn’t have in Acrobat 4. I haven’t been to Adobe’s campus, yet–is it right next to the freeway? Whatever the case, there’s got to be some seriously potent fumes running through their offices to explain the horrible trainwreck that Adobe Reader has become.
In my typical, ever-so-slightly dramatic fashion, I typed in “Adobe Reader is a bloated sack of crap” in Google and found…
