I've grown dependent on making zines quickly with In Design... I used to go to a local community space to use it but making an appointment got frustrating, so I did a $29 a month trial for the whole adobe business... that year is up and ugh.. I guess i'm gonna slim down to just In Design and Express for $22 a month. It's so fucking lame.
Their offenses are many, and well documented at reddit.com/r/FuckAdobe , but the thing that put me over the edge was Acrobat prompting me to read an AI summary of my own resume each time I opened the PDF to proofread it. The various Adobe-adjacent subs have many recommendations for one-time license or open source alternatives! All clunky, but I don't do anything complicated with these programs anyway.
OMG yes, the fucking AI intrusion in all of their projects! I think the open source software I looked at before wouldn’t work on my old laptop but I’ve upgraded since then, I’ll have a look. Thanks for the link. And Whoa looks like Affinity has all the things I need for free! We shall see!
I've grown dependent on making zines quickly with In Design... I used to go to a local community space to use it but making an appointment got frustrating, so I did a $29 a month trial for the whole adobe business... that year is up and ugh.. I guess i'm gonna slim down to just In Design and Express for $22 a month. It's so fucking lame.
Their offenses are many, and well documented at reddit.com/r/FuckAdobe , but the thing that put me over the edge was Acrobat prompting me to read an AI summary of my own resume each time I opened the PDF to proofread it. The various Adobe-adjacent subs have many recommendations for one-time license or open source alternatives! All clunky, but I don't do anything complicated with these programs anyway.
OMG yes, the fucking AI intrusion in all of their projects! I think the open source software I looked at before wouldn’t work on my old laptop but I’ve upgraded since then, I’ll have a look. Thanks for the link. And Whoa looks like Affinity has all the things I need for free! We shall see!
I've been using Scribus to avoid the Affinity Canva connection, it's really weird but I'm getting used to it! Yay open source.