Adobe Alternatives Competitors Smell Blood In The Water
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Adobe reveals small blood in the water! I created the Life After Adobe Cutting The Cord Series years ago, and now it's more relevant than ever! I used Adobe software and replaced it with amazing alternatives. Today we will look at competitors' actions to capitalize on Adobe's downfall.
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Adobe reveals small blood in the water! I created the Life After Adobe Cutting The Cord Series years ago, and now it's more relevant than ever! I used Adobe software and replaced it with amazing alternatives. Today we will look at competitors' actions to capitalize on Adobe's downfall.
*** If you are cutting the cord. Grab one of my LIFE AFTER ADOBE shirts to represent freedom of choice and disdain for corporate greed! jcristina.com/product/shirt-life-after-adobe
Are you sick of paying Adobe every month and never owning anything?
Will you allow Adobe to use your private creative works to train its AI?
Would you consider using an Adobe alternative?
Would you like me to continue the follow-up Life After Adobe Series?
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Photopea - www.photopea.com
Affinity Photo - affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo
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If you were to visit some piracy communities and search what people say about Adobe - especially the people who crack Adobe software - if you hear what they have to say your head'll explode. Short story: sometimes cracks made 3 or 4 years ago will still work on new versions being released today.
My then 16 yo daughter's Visual Design course dictated Photoshop, so she came home asking for a subscription. I point blank refused stating that it was overkill for her needs and would cost hundreds of dollars. Despite me still having an older Mac version of Photoshop in a box she had a Windows laptop so I introduced her to open source alternatives like Krita, Gimp, Blender, Kdenlive etc...everything I could think of, and I asked her to show her teacher. She confirmed my suspicion, her teacher had never heard of open source nor of these alternatives. My point is that the school actually stopped promoting Adobe and standardised to FOSS saving parents a small fortune. It can be done.
You taught your daughter a very important example of thinking for herself first. Others secondly. I hope the lesson sticks.
That's fantastic!
@@PlanetEarth3141 Thank you! You know what, she is a young adult now and the lesson has stuck.
@samshort365 Was that a long time ago? Adobe made it so that earlier versions we used to buy on discs can no longer be used. When I started in 2010, I was able to buy the software, but over the years Adobe stopped supporting it and the subscription model was the only choice.
I used Photoshop Fix to clean up pictures. Now it’s discontinued. What is an easy substitute for Photoshop Fix for technologically challenged people like me?
I'm always amused by Adobe fanboys who say you *_cannot_* do professional work with Affinity-especially as I continue to grow the agency.
What they really mean is that they cannot.
@@blackislepeastooIt's not too hard. It's basically the same program!
Thanks Adobe, your business ethics have given Affinity the opportunity to give decent discounts to purchase their great software to replace Adobe products, and their software architecture is so much better.
I agree! It's staggering how little progress Adobe has made in InDesign since version CS6.0 which I purchased once (the last version you could purchase without subscription, more than ten years ago). Never did I subscribe to Adobe. Affinity Publisher does the job and there's even an iPad version available!
Being a Linux user, I have found several free and opensource replacements for all my former Adobe applications. Though they are not from a single suite, but rather individual programs, I have still succeeded in creating a nice workflow between the apps.
I NEED. A Lightroom alternative that still has presets. Love this series!
I reviewed some alternative. Check out the Life After Adobe Series Playlist.
I imported my Lightroom catalog with 68k photos in Capture One without a hitch. It kept all the thumbs, organization, collections, keywords, color flags, some basic edits. Navigation is pretty snappy. You will lose your raw edits, but before dropping Lightroom, I output all my edited photos to tif or jpgs. Capture one raw workflow is comparable to lroom. Best of all, one time payment available.
ACDSEE. The catalogues load so fast. I've been using it since 2004.
Try ACDSEE, I have only few hours of experience but seems nice
Yep. I just learned Affinity Photo 2 doesn't have Fuji film simulation profiles for my RAW files. They need to implement this because that's still the reason I need Lightroom Classic.
Tried using Affinity Photo several times after using PS twenty years, primarily for photo compositing. I liked it, but there were a few things that I couldn't figure out how to do in AP. And I didn't have time for lots of trial and error or to live on the forum for a few days for each issue. A video that covers the DETAILS of how to use AP for common PS functions would be GREAT. EX: Smart Objects.
Publisher's ability to do Photo and Designer built in is something you can see in another Adobe Competitor, Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve.
Instead of having to load up Premiere, After Effects, and Composer, you are able to do all of that in DaVInci Resolve similar to how you descrived Publisher.
People say Adobe's Dynamic Linking is the best thing. I'd say it's pretty neat, like having a friend whose a mechanic, another whose a plumber, and another whose an electrician living in the same town as you. If anything goes wrong with your home or car, they can stop by tomorrow or later that day. DaVinci Resolve and Publisher is like having the mechanic, plumber, and electrician being your roommate. If you need them, they're already there.
6 months, that is incredible. I think imma tell some of my peeps about this.
Me too!
i’ve been a user of these tools since the 80s.
Affinity suite is a dang good replacement and the price is a steal.
Very good alternative.
Thanks! I have the Affinity series, now version 2.5.3. It was your cutting the cord with Adobe that pointed me that way awhile back. I hate the nickle and dime malarkey on Adobe's part.
Thank you so much for your support and kindness!!!!
I was an early adopter of the Affinity suite of programs. Quit Adobe when they went to subscription. Always nice to have my decision validated by a pro like JCristina. I'm definitely an Affinity evangelist; telling everyone I know about this great software. Thanks man.
All of the replies to my previous post seem to have been deleted, perhaps this one will get passed the algorithms. To summarise, my daughter completed her course 5 years ago. The CD versions of photoshop still work under emulation or on older systems (I have found that 32 bit Tiny Windows 7 gives the best performance under virtualbox). The open source Darktable app is a good replacement for Photoshop Fix, although I also use PhotoGIMP (GIMP with a photoshop interface), which I believe is no longer maintained, but can be easily recreated from the standard GIMP. It also comes pre-installed on TwisterOS, an ARM version of Linux. Finally, thanks to all of you for your kind comments.
I had been using APS since version 3. Then in the mid 20-teens Adobe just started becoming insufferable. I ran across your video in 2019 about cutting the Adobe cord. I took the leap, dropped Adobe, and I haven't looked back. ANYONE telling you that you cannot operate without APS is blowing smoke clean up your anal gums. Not only do I operate without APS and Premier Pro, I've THRIVED with an extra $575 in my pocket every year. Thank you for showing me the way.
Wow. I’m so glad to have helped you cut the cord with Adobe. So far you’ve saved $2,875 by cutting the cord. Thank you for the testimonial. Blessings.
I laughed at your car sales comparison. I bought a Tesla last time so skipped all that nonsense.
Never believed in the whole subscription concept. For multiple reasons. For example…I hate how often products are updated. It seems every other day you need to download an update. Or after an update you now lost the location of several functions because some stupid software engineer decided it was better to put it in some other buried menu. So now you need to learn how to use the program all over again. I once paid $50 for a publisher type program and I used it for 12 years because every time I went to use it I didn’t need to relearn half the program.
BTW, shared your video on my astronomy group's FB page. This would be great for many of our club members!
As my grandmother says: "Their getting too big for their britches!" I'm a serious amateur that does astrophotography with 16 and 32 bit images. I've been doing astrophotography since 1968 with the wet and dry darkroom scheme. I have a standalone PS-6 and I have no problem with it as my use is not as much as a professional. Gimp is close but crashes with some large images. I do mosaics of 15 images or more full size frames and at 16-bit.
JC, HELP…… I hate the Adobe conundrum. I do a lot of CNC and Laser vector stuff and I really don’t want to pay out the nose for all the Adobe apps to make my inexperience easier. I feel trapped. Keep pushing out this content..
AND ! They run natively on Snapdragon Elite X :)
I am so glad they made it on Day One.
I am very close to switching from Photoshop. But Affinity doesn't have a smart object alternative. Which is a priority for them to develop I think
Seems like with the implementation of Generative Ai, the only thing chomping at the bit are guppies. Adobe has made it simple and easy to use ai. Their infrastructure and asset library are huge in comparison. When other design apps follow in Adobe's footsteps, closing the gap, then Adobe they might need to worry. As great as any alternative app is, the meg that is Adobe goes unchallenged.
Thanks for saving my a great deal of time looking around for the Adobe alternative. You mentioned a free video editing alternative. I do some drone video and have done enough that I now have some I would like to post process. I just need something simple and low cost or free. Thanks again for your Great channel!!
I will be talking about this soon.. But in the mean time.. Check out DaVinici Resolve from Black Magic.
It’s good to hear that one Affinity license can now be used across different platforms.
I bought the Windows version after seeing your videos four or five years ago, but then changed to Mac and found that my Affinity license did not cover it.
Rather than buy Affinity again, I chose to stick with Adobe because I’d been using it for two decades and it spared me another learning curve.
Seeing they’ve changed this policy, I’ll give it another go. Thanks for the update.
I didn't try the free 6 month. I just buy it. Such a dev like this, I will not hesitate to support them. Best decision ever!
Agree. Me too.
I got an acrobat ad on this video. Quite ironic
Affinity needs to drop a Linux version. Especially with Window's recent moves (Recall, One Drive, etc.)
We need the schools to switch or the students will always learn Adobe.
Absolutely... or at least teach them alternatives...
They should teach both, but they should *start* with Affinity for all the basics, and then teach where Adobe products excel, so that students know when it makes sense to dump a shitload of money into certain products, and when they "can get away" with Affinity.
Enjoying a whiskey and it's the evening while I watch this.
Just checked out, and downloaded all 3. He's right guys, no credit card required to try for free.
Thanks, JC!
I do still miss lot of stuff like animations, scripting, ... but Im glad Affinity exists ... hopefully those days will bring them enough money to get all those juicy features we are used to from photoshop implemented too :)
I take impromptu photos of friends and family under varying, not in my control circumstances and I am absolutely thrilled with the recent generative Ai remove tool. Also the enhanced masking tool in LightRoom is great and the catalogue and nondestructive editing.
Watching is my participation now as I stopped producing recently enough to enjoy following the topic.
Also interesting is what this means for the photos and videos of security-sensitive customers of productions.
I just cancelled my Adobe plan. I have 195 days left from my subscription, but 90 days to download my files from the cloud storage because the storage will be reduced from 20Gb to 5Gb. As I understand, some features will not be available anymore.
WHY???
The subscription is paid till January 2025!!!
I’m switching to Affinity and thank you for your videos 👍👍👍
Left Adobe years ago after them being so rude. Told them I would never again do business with them. I haven't. I do use Affinity. Love them and the work is much smoother to my way of thinking. Thanks for the work you do.
Thanks for these updates! I did buy Affinity when it was back in the version 1.1 and then they came out with 2.0 several months later, so I haven't upgraded since I had just poked out money. I may reconsider since Adobe has been changing their terms. Thanks again!
I hope adobe will get rid of their CEO after the DOJ lawsuit and revert to a standalone no subscription bs model, like 20 years ago. i grew up using their software back in school, i'd love to continue to use them and support a company that doesn't rip off customers.
I was a public beta user & bought the apps as they became released. Have ZERO regrets. 👍🏽💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I switched to Affinity after my 2012 MacBook finally died in 2022. Used CS4. (no sub!) But Apple deprecated 32-bit software (ptui! ptui! thanks for nothing, Apple!) so I had to look for alternatives.
Thanks, Affinity!
Yep. Planned obsolescence.
The problem with serif is they don’t compete with Adobe. They said that themselves.
Issue 2 color interpretation.
Issue 3 no dam
Issue 4 and most importantly the raw developer is bad.
You will still have to use a subscription service to be able to do high end work.
I’m talking the .01% quality.
You need stuff like c1 for high end photo work.
Can c1 open as many photos in raw as Adobe software can? I’ve yet to try that part out.
Why would I want to cut the cord. I appreciate Adobe and I have a choice of any software.
Thanks for the alternatives. As a video crestor I've run into the subscription nonsense too. I buy a house, not rent. So why rent software? I'm jazzed about trying Adobe alternatives. I'll definitely not use Adobe. Thanks again,
Hans
I think Microsoft should take notes as they will be next!
I still have the last licensed version of PhotoShop installed, which is pretty handy for basic stuff. But I've been doing 99%+ of my post-processing with DXO PhotoLab for several years. I tried Paint Shop Pro, but that didn't do it for me.
I'm not sure why PhotoLab didn't make the list here.
Thanks! Your advice saved me a ton! See comment in your Blood in the Water video.
companies are not evil it's the people behind the companies, they're evil and they need to be sued personally, I suspect the business schools are breeding the greed driving so many businesses. I have no like or respect for Adobe and will be downloading Infinity software. The key point in your video for me was to be able to open my adobe files after so many years, starting with Photoshop 1.0, it was too daunting. Thx
The best thing in publisher you got access to the other 2 apps without leaving publisher and opening another ap
I’ve worked on affinity for 3 years now.. but now with all the ai development, I’m starting to think of moving to adobe, since affinity doesn’t have any ai yet. And that’s too bad cause I have to do it separately on stable diffusion and that’s not too fun when there are much faster and simpler ways on adobe
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I use Davinci Resolve free version, for video editing. It's as powerful (or more as Premiere).
After watching some of your other videos this week, I cancelled my annual plan (paid in full up front for no penalty but I'm abandoning the last 6ish months because I find Adobe to be dishonest. It was easy to cancel (no loss to them, but whatever) and as of today I have bought and started using Affinity Photo 2, Luminar Neo 1.20.0 and Davinci Resolve 18.1. Thank you for your videos!
Great video JC, I need an LrC alternative ! but i wont go back to Layer style editing it`s to slow and AI generated fill when removing hair/branches. If i get that ill switch tomorrow (Ohhh... i cant, have to wait until Januar 2025 before i can get out of my 1-year plan :-(
For totally free AI generative fill you may want to have a look at Krita and its free AI plugins
It's called competition! Good for everyone, even Adobe, they will now have to adapt and compete.
Ok, you got me locked in. I'm subbed and the bell has been rung. Lol. Great info. One question, and I'll be trying Affinity. How did you find that were with Reading the RAWs for new cameras as they are released? Being that it's not subscription based.
Thanks!
Truly appreciate your support Thomas. Blessings to you and your family!!
I LOVED Serif PagePlus, and STILL do :-))))
My dislike for Adobe goes all the way back to the time when the only Postscript printer cost as much as a used car.
As I remember it, Ventura Publisher was the hot shit at the time, and it wanted a postscript printer. I can't remember
exactly, maybe it was AST. All I remember is that the printer was hiway robbery and there is no doubt that the price
of it was hugely inflated by the fact that it had the Adobe Postscript engine embedded in it's firmware, or should I say "forth".
My memory of the time is clouded in pain because I was a one man shop/startup and buying Ventura and the printer
had me eating beans for quite a while.
I'm an Adobe user. I also have Affinity , which i like a lot. But to be honest, Affinity is just inferior to Photoshop.
They lack AI masking- Generative Fill - Generative expand - Remove Tool (AI of course) .The list is very long. IF I have an image that has color cast , I can easily correct it in Photoshop. I know how to do it in Affinity , but it's more hit and miss.
Develop a RAW file in Affinity 's Develop persona is not pleasant at all. It's probably their weakest point. Adobe is here light years ahead.
A good combination here is probably DxO PL Elite + Affinity. But , DxO also need AI masking.
I wish Affinity made a Lightroom/Capture One alternative. I'd buy it immediately.
I am very happy with Affinity Photo.
Good stuff.
i used for while Autodesk crap software, then Clip Studio Paint until it became more and more complex, with feature i don't need,
Now i use Affinity Painter, Designer, Publisher and i'm Happy
Excellent video. I love Lightroom, but hate Adobe - I would like to see an LightRoom Alternative video!
Adobe’s game is over. I won’t touch their products anymore. Unfortunately, I’ve never used anything else.
I plan on switching to Affinity Photo.
The marketing strategy and people who can't find their usefulness have done this to us.
I have three computers running Windows 10 that don't qualify for Windows 11 (and I'm not sure I want Windows 11 anyway!!!) One of them spends 99% of its time offline anyway, and after Oct 25 that will become 100%. The other two are going to become Linux machines. While I COULD put Affinity Photo on the offline machine, I'm more looking at what I can get to run in Linux.
I couldn't agree with you more! I'd love to hear about lightroom alternatives.
Wow, great info! I’m catching up on this series. I’m new and am looking for post processing options, but REFUSE to give Adobe a penny. Have you found any alternatives to Lightroom? Thanks for all your work and research. You’re appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. How about a life after Intuit QuickBooks video?
I understand the changing QuickBooks also
Thank you for your clear, concise and thorough videos on alternatives to Adobe Products.
Question: Are there any good After Effects alternatives out there that support popular plugins like Redshift or Trapcode Particular? I’d love to see a comparison if there are.
One additional note: I find it frustrating that there is not another software out there that supports .csh files. If there is please post a vid or comment in one of your videos regarding unsupported adobe file types and /or software which does.
Again thank you for these videos.
Please keep up the good work!
Thank you. I’ve been using DaVinci Resolve for many years and it works very well. It’s no longer the best color grading tool. It’s now one of the best NLEs in the game.
Thanks for your work. It helps all of us to make few important decisions.
My biggest challenge is to find software to replace Lightroom. To be completely honest, this was the primary reason I chose Adobe (Lightroom). I'm going away from Adobe for sure but just need to find the right software for me.
Regards,
Very bold move from Affinity. Hopefully it'll work in converting people away Adobe.
I've been using Luminar. I like the update on cutting the cord as there may be something else I should look at/consider.
Nice.
You are 100% correct that is why I removed it all for my computer destroyed all the disk and through everything in the trash I will not buy their products again
I'd switch to Affinity in an instant but I has no library manager and that does it for me. To open each file one by one is for me crazy.
I switched cold turkey, no problem. Producing right away because everything makes sense! Faster, more streamlined. Bottom line: I want to love the software I use, and I hated Adobe for far too long. Affinity, capture one, davinci and I’m cruising…
Illustrator, Premier, Photoshop. I keep falling back on these bc I know how to use them, lol.
The recent Adobe terms of service debacle got me looking at alternatives for PS and LR. Affinity Photo looks like a promising replacement for PS... definitely taking advantage of the extended free trial. But considering they're having a 50% off sale at the moment, it's tempting to just go ahead and buy it. LR is the more difficult piece of software to replace though. Currently leaning towards DxO Photolab... and that's gonna be a much more expensive move, especially if I spring for their entire suite of products.
Actually Adobe has briliant sofwares. Not as good as they used to be, but still very good. THe only one that can NOT be substitute with anything else is After Effects. You can say that, Davinci+Fusion combo is the same - it's not.
I tried to work Affinity. It was very difficult because after 20 plus years in Adobe world it was really difficult to change my brain. And Affinity does not give any help to ex-Adobe users. They should and far mor people would change. By the way, even it has countless advantages, Adobe is still better. Not far better but better.
will you be doing a 100k subscriber live stream?
As a 3D designer, substance painter and substance suite is hard. I did cancel my sub., on both substance suit and PS. PS seems like an easy transition (used PS for 20+ years). I use Krita for drawing, and probably will go Affinity for retouch/photo stuff. DaVinci is already good in the video edit space. But again, substance suite is a hard one. Trying 3D-coat for now in replacement for substance painter, but I don't think there's a single software out there that can replace Substance Designer as of now.
The area that seems to have me stuck needing to leave the Creative Cloud bloat installed is CMYK print work. For example, printing halftone separations for screen printing.
In Photoshop & Acrobat, doing this is dead simple, and 100% reliable. You just make a Colour Halftone, and then select Separations when you print.
Affinity does not print separations. So that means either multi-step printing turning layers on and off, or exporting as a PDF, and then printing separations in, you guessed it, Acrobat. Other PDF apps do not support printing separations.
Does anyone know of an affordable solution for this? Testing Scribus right now, but it's a little funky.
I did it! I cancelled Adobe entirely 2 days ago. Just advance amateur photographer. DXO Photo Lab in lieu of Lightroom. Affinity in lieu of Photoshop.
I switched to ON1 when you did your earlier series. I used to work with software licensing and avoid leased software. I do miss some of the Lightroom features I used to use, especially the database features. I also don’t know what third party plugins might work with ON1 or other software.
Affinity is good - it always was as far back as the original Serif releases, BUT what keeps me tethered to PS is the ability to export as DDS natively via an Intel or Nvidia plugin. It is THE most asked-for upgrade in Affinity and has been since the initial release. Yes, I could use Nvidia's standalone converter but, AFAIAC, it has two downsides: it breaks my workflow and it's nearly impossible to read on a 3840 x 2160 (4K) monitor.
In place of Lightroom I'm using ON1 (pronounced OnOne) which, without a doubt, is a far superior piece of photo editing software. It used to be 'go make a cup of coffee while it starts up' slow but the current version has absolutely addressed that problem.
Thank you very much for your videos. I admire your energy and your fighting spirit. 💪 I have been a Lightroom and Photoshop user for ages. I believe I've been using Lightroom since version 1.0 (or was it 0.9? 😃). Basically, I am a very simple user. No video, no illustrations... just photos. Some time ago, I also searched for and found other products, and I ended up with Affinity. When I compare my results, I even like the Affinity results better than my Lightroom results... I can't explain why. So, I am not afraid to learn new software... but what seems irreplaceable to me is the Library functionality of Lightroom. My whole (digital photo) life is in these libraries. I am super organized and have probably exploited the Library functions more than the photo functions. Therefore, my question is... which independent, standalone product can I use to integrate Lightroom Libraries and to use it in future as the center of my photo software? I hope I was able to explain my dilemma. English is not my native language. I would appreciate a video on this specific topic. Thank you very much, Martin.
My painpoint is Acrobat because built in prepress tools.. I am looking at Foxit but I can't really buy the one off license until my 1 year adobe sub is up next may! Grrrrr ...
Thank you for doing this. I will let you know how the cancel goes with Adobe.
Affinity is great software. I purchase it for iPad and ended up buying and learning all the other software. They are the exact opposite of Adobe.
What about ON1 and Luminar neo?
I think topics that we're missing and I have not seen covered yet is Formats. I hear a lot of "industry standard" when I talk about alternatives, but we haven't started talking about format for the work we do. Our formats are tied to Software and so Companies, like AEP - After Effects - Adobe. By now what is the preferred formats outside of company (or maybe I should say proprietary??) formats to share between Designers, between Web Desigers. I can't think of any besides maybe SVG.
Edit: I do know Affinity can open and save PSD and AI, its just that it's not complete enough to open in After Effects and still have editable text.
Affinity photo does all I need.
I’d like to replace LightRoom Classic as well as Photoshop. Be awesome if it would actually be able to read and use the catalogs of photos created with LightRoom. Also video editing and AfterEffects.
I quit Adobe abbo too one month ago. Now I work with ACDSee Ultimate 2024. Nice program.🙂
Hey, I downloaded yesterday the 180 days free infinity photo two, the very first issue the missing any Catalog. looks like the Lightroom qualities are missing from affinity photo.
Why only sue adobe, what about all the other software companies that are using the subscription model?
I wish they had a Lightroom alternative. I just ditched adobe and I got affinity photo, but I have capture one to replace Lightroom. I got the “perpetual” license on sale. But it will be out of date and unusable (due to Mac OS update) within a year or two.
Sad how these people make it hard to keep using software. Or shit. Hardware for that matter “Apple” not pointing fingers with their planned obsolescence.
Where's Adobe Dreamweaver alternative? You know create web design code non subscription model
I think most people use VS Code these days, that's what I use. Though it definitely isn't a direct replacement.
I'm using the adobe Portfolio. What's available to use for an online portfolio?
The only replacement I can't find anywhere is the Photoshop Neural filter for photo restoration. I have tried many but none are absolutely totally automatic like Photoshops. Don't get me wrong, I am not an Adobe subscriber but I wish I could find that feature anywhere at any price.
As a longtime Photoshop user I really love their improved selection/masking capabilities alongside with their AI-based tools such as Remove and Generative Fill. Does Affinity Photo have such features? Thanks
I ended two CC full subscriptions today, and my wife ended adobe acrobat pro earlier this week.
Thanks for this video. I used adobe acrobat mostly to draft and revise contracts in back-and-forth negotiations. However, the annual feel was increasing at an astonishing rate so I cut the cord. Since then, I haven't found anything I love. Do you have any possible suggestions for me?
Acrobat is one of the hardest alternative. I believe I touch on some in the past but I will keep this top of mind. Check out the Life After Adobe Playlist