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Quick Summary: While I stand behind all the Microsoft Publisher alternatives that I recommend below, Adobe InDesign stood out as the lead software It has a great selection of templates, customizable layout options, and complete typesetting features.

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That’s what I was suggesting for OP to do. I had to come to terms with stuff like this to let it go. Didn’t matter that I pointed it out when it came to licensing because sales was king in the company.

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One of the most frustrating things I needed to let go was giving a full CS Suite to a sales guy and he never used it in the 6 months that he was there. If as you suggest, we “forget the money”, it is not for us (or many of us) to determine this. However, it comes down to what the business needs are. If you were to say, “in this company we will only use open-source software”, it will be difficult to hire a talented designer or a contractor because they use the software that makes them employable, which are Adobe products.Īlso, I have no doubt that you have more experience than I do when it comes to working in this industry. Whether we like it or not, Photoshop and Illustrator are graphics standards. Or, if they’re an SMB, they’ll outsource marketing and graphics but need to be able to view. From a business perspective, it’s not a matter of money, it’s a matter of what is an “industry standard”.įor example, if you work for a company that does manufacturing, they will have a Marketing department and will included a graphics person. I’ve haven’t dealt with their licensing in a couple of years so I don’t know if or how it’s changed. Anything less than that you had to deal with the situation you described.

No question, Adobe products used to be a nightmare unless you had 200 licenses of the full suite. I hear ya’ and had to deal with that nightmare like you did.

Especially if you are not the decision maker and you are not the owner of the company. Adobe is the standard for graphics, whether we like it or not.Īt some point, you need to consider whether this is something you need to battle with when it comes to your users. Getting graphics users to move on to a different product, especially when they need to work with other companies, will never happen. In my last positions we were able to get away with Photoshop Elements (which is still stand alone) as well as MS Photo Editor for many users. You will always have to argue with users that think they need to have Photoshop to edit pictures. So, test everything and work with the managers of those departments. The first one that comes to mind is scaling. When you are using AutoCAD or ARCGIS products, there can be some weird things when it comes to converting to. So just a heads up when it comes to freeware or using non-Adobe products.

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Once you're used to using all the known Adobe Shortcuts and Modes it's really hard to work with much else.īut I don't think Adobe have quite the same monopoly anymore when it comes to PDF Editors. I tried IrfanView which was a free alternative but it was horrible.

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Things like E-Sigs are free on PDF X-Change etc.Īs for Photoshop, I'm the only 'user (I'm one as well!)' with a License and I haven't found an alternative that stands up at all. I would try to get a list of exactly what functions everyone needs and seeing which PDF apps can/can't perform those actions. I'm sure there are more expensive options but we only need a few users to get on this. Buy a License for v14.that key is only valid for v14. The only thing to be wary of is that your license is for the version of the software at that moment in time. Bit more expensive than PDFXCE but it also uses forever licenses not cloud based ones.

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Nitro Pro - We have a few users with this.

It also has free measurement tools etc that users have been taught on drawings. The key difference is that it's not a cloud based license, it's a one off fee that's about a 1/4 of the price of an Annual License of Acrobat if my recollection serves. Some of the functions you can get away without paying for but a handful of our users we had no choice but to pay it.

PDF X-Change Editor ( ) - This is a much much cheaper alternative.

PDF SAM - The free version of this allows page extraction, merging PDFs etc without watermarks.

We use a couple of open source/free/cheaper PDF applications: