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Maybe; but I do have the full suite. Have used it plenty during the pandemic to fill in forms digitally (some that were designed to be filled in digitally, othe
by virgilp 6y ago
Maybe; but I do have the full suite. Have used it plenty during the pandemic to fill in forms digitally (some that were designed to be filled in digitally, others that were not), both on an iPad and on computers. Sure, I'm not a hardcore professional user but those wouldn't be using Preview anyway; I'd bet my family usage is consistently above average.
(also used it before the pandemic - I used to work for Adobe, for 10 years, though not in the Document Cloud group).
[edit] I should clarify that "I never personally experienced Acrobat bugs that would corrupt my document", not that they don't exist; am not claiming that Acrobat is flawless, and maybe if I went to dig into the bug tracker I could've found document corruption bugs too, who knows.
The format is certainly messy [+], I don't deny that. However, I think in this instance you're letting Apple off the hook too easily - this one is decidedly their screwup, not Adobe's.
[+] not the basics of it, that's fine; but the "trying to do too much" part.
- dkonofalski 6y agoI don't think I'm letting Apple off easy because I don't think it's not their fault. I just think that, until we see the document in question, we can't squarely say that it is their fault. Preview and Acrobat both have ways of dealing with junk/bogus data and I feel like that's what's going on here. There must have been some kind of bit switched when the document was "corrected" and it's possible that Acrobat and Preview just resolve that issue differently while both still outputting "valid" PDF files.