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Originally Posted by Quoth
It's marketing. It's pointless. As Hitch wrote, a PDF is a baked cake. Or Rock bun.
Or as the guy asking directions was told, "Well, sir, if I was to be going there I wouldn't start from here."
Forget about editing PDFs. Acrobat Viewer (basic) is a not great PDF viewer (there is a spec and other people do better viewers). Acrobat Pro is really just a stupidly expensive tool to make PDFs from other resources. It's not going to easily let you edit some random PDF.
There is a PDF format that can include a source document, obviously Acrobat Pro really edits that and makes a new PDF.
Forget Adobe.
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Well, as much as I love Quoth, I do have to say, in my line of work, I use Adobe products daily. Hell, all day long, every day. They are uniquely situated and frankly, in terms of print production, simply the best. Is GIMP, which is free, a worthy Photoshop replacement? Possibly. Is Affinity Photo a worthy PHSP replacement? Damn near, yes. Is Affinity Designer a good replacement for Illustrator? Apparently...and so on.
But the reality is, nothing is close to InDesign. Even Affinity Publisher isn't, as you can't export ePUBs or even HTML worth a damn. For me, that's unlivable. Can INDD, all by its lonesome, do "everything"? No, not in my opinion--you need Word or Libre Office (not even pages can do everything that they can). If you want indexing, bygod, you want Word or LO. Otherwise, severe mental disability ensues.
Just saying. An app for everything and everything in its place. Acrobat DC Pro does have some functions that are pretty killer, again, IF IF IF you are in the commercial production biz. Are there PDF-making/editing/manipulating apps out there that are as good, or better? So I'm told, but I haven't tried any in my recent memory. (Full disclosure--it's been at least...12 years since I tried a competitor, so...anything is possible.)
Just...use these apps for what they are BEST at. Don't try to make a cake with a cookie sheet and a batter that's a gooey, pourable mess.
That's my $.02, or at this point, $.05.
Hitch