r/FuckAdobe

Hello! Can anyone help me out with this problem I have? I have a adobe subscription and I been wanting to cancel it, I used it for college but since I’m not going anymore I have no need for adobe. I was trying to cancel it today but it wouldn’t let me since I had used the student subscription and used my school email. I tried talking to adobe support but it wouldn’t even let me do that, and it would say on the screen, says “please contact your advisor for help. A member of your organization is a designated contact for issues with your adobe products. Reach out to your advisor or IT for help.“ unfortunately though I don’t talk to my advisor at all anymore since I am no longer in school. I didn’t know if there is any other way I can cancel without reaching out to the old collage. All I wanna do is just cancel my subscription without any terrible hassle, does anyone have any suggestions or ever been through before? If so thank you!

Hei, folkens. Lurer på om noen har vært borti lignende med Adobe når det gjelder årsabonnementet deres som er forhåndsbetalt.

Sitter i en liten krise og klarer ikke helt å tenke fornuftig akkurat nå.

Jeg har i en god del år hatt årsabonnement hos Adobe hvor jeg alltid har betalt mindre enn den fulle prisen helt siden jeg fikk studentprisen under studiet (tips: Hver gang ting skulle fornyes så sutret jeg til kundeservice og fikk slått av halve eller mer av prisen. Funket alltid).

Men denne gangen glemte jeg/utsatte jeg å gjøre noe med fornyelsen av abonnementet. Og "plutselig" poppet det opp en mail om at de har mottatt betaling for creative Cloud pro abonnement på 11.160 kroner. Det stemmer ikke da ingenting var trekt fra konto og de har i tillegg ikke et gyldig betalingskort å trekke meg på heller. Mailen var ekte fra Adobe, om noen lurer.

Planen var å avslutte abonnementet og jeg trodde at angreretten på 14 dager gjaldt nå når jeg kontaktet kundeservice mindre enn 24 timer etter denne mailen kom inn. Spurte personen jeg snakket med om jeg kunne få avslutte abonnementet mitt og ikke betale de de 11k.

De hjalp meg med å avslutte abonnement (fordi jeg hadde vært en så god og trofast kunde i mange år, *spyr*), men fikk egentlig ikke noe direkte svar på om jeg måtte betale. Tikket inn en ny mail som da sa at abonnementet var avsluttet og tilgangen min ville opphøre 13. august 2027????? Men jeg ville jo ikke betale for dette året? Jeg ville angre fornyelsen helt! Var jeg ikke innenfor angreretten?

Jeg har aaaldri opplevd så mye unnvikende "ikke-svar" i en samtale med kundeservice noe gang. Spurte flere ganger direkte om jeg ville få refusjon eller ikke trengte å betale prisen og fikk svar som:

- Betalingen er "pending" og ingenting er trengt enda (no shit).

- Hvis jeg blir trekt senere så kan jeg kontakte de igjen angående det. (Fikk et eget saksnummer jeg kunne oppgi.)

- Abonnement ditt er nå avsluttet, du ville ikke blir trekt noe mer.

- En del svar som muligens kunne tydes som at jeg ikke trengte å betale, men ble aldri sagt direkte.

Idag kom en ny mail om at betalingen mislyktes. Så de prøver altså fortsatt. Føler jeg kommer til å sitte fast i denne onde sirkelen med Adobe helt til jeg betaler.

Hjelp! Hvordan kommer jeg meg ut av dette? Skal jeg bare la de prøve å ta betaling fra meg til de gir seg (hvis det ikke fører til inkasso-krav da)?

Har en snikende følelse om at de kommer til å si at angreretten kun gjelder ved første betaling og ikke senere betalinger "ved fornyelse", men er det tillatt?

I am honestly losing my mind right now. I was right in the middle of a massive client batch and Adobe forced a background update that completely broke the software. Now every time I try to run heavy preflight or batch ocr the program just crashes and corrupts my saved files. I am a solo freelancer and I can not afford to lose hours of work just because some broken update got pushed out without being tested properly. If anyone knows how to stop this thing from crashing please let me know because I am completely stuck right now.

i support adobe i purchase all their tools and i pay them i even donate money to them

Acrobat crashed on me today while I was signing a client PDF. It refuses to operate. I pulled the crash log. It's choking on an AI model file that won't load on my system.

I don't use the AI features.

So a PDF reader wouldn't open a PDF because a chatbot component broke.

I went to Creative Cloud after that and it says it needs a newer macOS. Which means Audition, my main DAW for work, is next.

If Adobe is going to permanently crash one day because they pull support from an older OS, what's to stop their other services from suddenly becoming defunct because of their need to push 'new tech' to satisfy their Wall Street investors instead of actually helping professionals?

If my editor won't open the morning of a session because Adobe pushed something or decided my machine doesn't qualify, I lose the job.

After decades of being with Adobe, I'm finally unsubscribing.

They are actively sabotaging us to serve a boardroom of money men and it's hugely disappointing.

There's been LOTS of discussion about Adobe alternatives, but as far as I can find very few seem to be discussing *pdf editors specifically*, and none of them have an actual definitive answer in regards to graphic designers using it for print media.

I recently made the decision to abandon Adobe for Affinity, and so far so good, except for Affinity Studio's extreme lack of PDF editing for print. I can't even select artboards/pages to export, it's either every single page or only one. If anyone has any work arounds or suggestions let me know. I'd love to avoid another download.

I've seen plenty of alternative PDF viewers suggested across reddit, but **I need to reorder, add and delete pages, and view advanced print settings like spot colours, etc.** Does anything like that exist outside of Adobe? I've found many questionable suggestions but no firsthand recommendations from actual designers. I know Adobe is the standard, but surely someone has tried something else?

I've seen PDFgear suggested, but some people warn against it, citing possible malware; PDF24, PDF X-Change, and LibraOffice were also recommended, but not by designers so I'm doubtful that they will fulfill my needs, and I'm warry of downloading random software willy-nilly. I'd love some recommendations from designers who have actually tried these alternatives. Does anyone have any experience using any of these or have any other suggestions from personal experience?

I'm a junior freelance designer working extremely part-time, so I can't even afford Adobe at the moment, one day I might be forced to return, but I need an alternative in the meantime. I have both windows and apple computers. Thanks for your help!

I mean, I believe in technological progress somewhere. Supply and demand and continuous development.

But if there’s one thing I don’t understand in this context, it’s the reason why Adobe still exists today and has huge market shares and occurs in almost every office job? I find Adobe terrible and extremely unstable and also extremely userunfriendly. There must be something political behind it - I mean, so much more must be possible with PDF files. Can someone explain the evil to me?

Adobe really said “Nobody wants a virus” …

Hello, everyone,

I'm looking at making the switch to Linux due to a growing number of problems, security issues, & unwanted features present within Windows, but I have one major concern before doing so.

I'm a photographer and I've primarily been using Lightroom & Photoshop for all of my editing, but I know that Adobe does not currently support Linux, it would require a workaround that I'm not too keen on doing, and because fuck Adobe.

Does anyone know of any programs that will work natively on Linux and are at least similar to Adobe in function and capability?

hi everyone! i have macbook air and im so sick of using capcut free version since 2021. Any help to get ae safe and free??please helpppp

My Creative Cloud Pro sub is up in 2 days, so I went on to chat to try and negotiate a discount (as I’ve read about here). I had also purchased a pay-as-you go credit pack for stock footage.

Went on, tried to chat to a human. Having discovered that the pay-as-you-go was in fact a renewing plan (!!) I stated very that I wanted to cancel that, and wanted to discuss my Creative Cloud Pro sub, as I was THINKING of cancelling.

What do they do? Cancel my CC Pro sub early, leave the credit pack renewal live… and kick me off the chat!!!

Seriously, this is a terrible company. And fuck you Soukya!!! Ronak rocks though (even though he couldn’t help me after the fact).

Things to note:

1. When I signed up for the offer, I used a UK VPN and set my location to the UK to activate it.
2. Even after signing up for the offer, I still had a cracked version of Photoshop installed on my PC.

What could be the reason for Adobe cancelling my subscription?

I’m only looking for answers from people who know the reason for sure.

Thank you.