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Adobe has upped their scumbag strategy recently. I needed to use Acrobat for one task, so I signed up for a free trial. Of course, I forgot to cancel it and got charged $15. I then went to go cancel my subscription completely and found that they wanted to charge me a $30 early termination fee on top of that!

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Same for Creative Cloud:

> if you have 5 months of your contract left when you cancel and you pay $20/month, you have to pay 50% of the $100 remaining balance = $50 early termination fee.

I wish they offered the three software people use most to open design files (Ps, Ai, Id) for like $9.99/mo. I'd totally keep it even if I use the software like once a month. Instead I have to either pirate it and run it in a VM or abuse the trial system. There's no way I'm paying $52/mo to export the occasional logo from .ai to .svg

I’m pretty sure Inkscape supports that, although I’m not sure how good it is at that function. I used to do my photo editing in Gimp, but it’s a pain. I'm going to check out affinity though based on the recommendations. I used to like acrobat too, but it got too bloated. I rarely use PDFs for anything other than scanning receipts for tax reasons and pretty much every cloud storage app supports that.

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