Watch yer back, Adobe!

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Or you can just use the your credentials from your work CC copy at home. Perfectly legal.

... a gap in my American entertainment culture database. Who is your avatar?

Carla's ex-husband, Nick Tortelli's new wife.

[Possum]

Here is a link from Adobe's user forums listing many alternatives to Adobe's stranglehold.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1206666

[Joe]

You can find substitutes for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign but what you can't find a replacement for is the Acrobat/Pitstop combo which is an absolute must for me. And before someone mentions NEO it is not really affordable if it is even still available.

[Possum]

That's the problem with the replacements. Adobe is so embedded in our workflows or ways of doing things, it's almost impossible to switch, especially for the larger companies. Not to mention the fact that some are Windows or Mac only. For freelancers, it's a lot easier to switch.

[Farabomb]

And then we get the craptastic results from said programs.

[Possum]

They are many craptastic programs around. I had a booklet to print that dropped something or screwed up something different with each attempt to output. Figured it was too many hands using too many "free" programs to create it. Of course, making a PROPER PDF was out of the question.

Xara looks promising and more professional, Windows only. Pixelmator gets a lot of praise, Mac only. Some people swear by Corel products. There are better ones coming up.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Corel is of the devil.

[Ear]

HATE Corel. We do a fair amount of printing for a local marketing firm and one of the guys works in Corel. He tries to tell me how superior Corel is. I said, ya, that is why I bill an extra hour of prepress on all of your jobs, doctoring Corel infections.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

 

HATE Corel. We do a fair amount of printing for a local marketing firm and one of the guys works in Corel. He tries to tell me how superior Corel is. I said, ya, that is why I bill an extra hour of prepress on all of your jobs, doctoring Corel infections.

Anyone that's been in Corel and hits command-zero knows why Corel sucks.

Powerclip, what a novel and completely cluster-fuck way to do things, It makes Illustrator's Clipping Mask look stable.

Paste-Inside... THAT is how they should all be.

[Ear]

Even better... this client was comparing Corel to Photoshop, FFS, not even Illy or Indy. At that point, I just stopped arguing.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Even better... this client was comparing Corel to Photoshop, FFS, not even Illy or Indy. At that point, I just stopped arguing.

Like a Sherman tank versus a Twinkie. There is NO battle. Yes, the Twinkie is delicious, but that has nothing to do with the war.

[Ear]

Exactly. 

[David]

we got twinkies?

 

[Possum]

 A few, but they don't post anymore. 

[Ear]