Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.
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Conversely, IT is arguing about a $90 license on an employee that costs 80k. If it saves them 2 hours of productivity over the course of the year, it's an even trade, wouldn't you say?
Yeah but those $90 savings make IT management look good, and that 80k/year doesn't come out of IT's budget. Also the productivity loss can't objectively be measured or will just be blamed on the employee.
I know this is more sarcasm rather than serious justification, but sadly I agree that it's all true.
It’s definitely not sarcasm
Pisses me off no end when companies cheap out on IT equipment. I work in a place where a large number of us will be on £35 - £55k, yet the IT budget for each of us is less than 1% of our salary over 3 years.
It's crazy. Don't employ professionals then give them low end enthusiast gear.
I blame accounting. Although I also think that Acrobat's price is BS.
If it was us, we wouldn't have to be fighting for the licenses either.
It's usually some high level IT exec who thinks they'll get a bonus if they shave off $5K in expenses.
It took me months to get them to allow it even though I need it. And in the end, they gave me Creative Suite for some reason.
I worked for a small multinational (20.000ish employees).
The licensing department saved about 3 mio USD/year when they started going at license pinching.
Yeah, this penny pinching on licenses is pretty absurd. I promise you that it hardly affects the bottom line.
$90? Where can I get Adobe Acrobat for $90? Standard is 14.99 per month! I'd buy that shit all day if it was a one time fee of $90.
It'd probably $90/year, not a one-time fee. Which is still a lot better than monthly, but probably only available to businesses/bulk licence buyers
No shit man. I just pay for my own. Ain't worth arguing with IT. Saved me a shit ton of time reliably converting and editing PDFs.
There is a free PDF editor called Sejda, it might do what you need and save you some money.
This looks very promising for personal use, but as it is web-based it is almost certainly not HIPAA compliant which is a necessity for several professions.
Random aside, I'm always mildly amused because HIPAA (the US medical legislation) and FIPPA (the British Columbia privacy legislation) have similar requirements in many cases. :)
There is a downloadable version, that's what I use. https://www.sejda.com/desktop though it does appear to have some limits which I didn't realise.
Thank you