I've had a number of issues over the years, but my current issue is that when I try to open CC the interface elements all freeze and are unclickable (even though the window is still scrollable – very strange behavior). So I went to uninstall it, but I can't because Photoshop is installed. So I went to uninstall Photoshop, but you guessed it, I can only uninstall PS through CC, which is unresponsive.
Smh.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-in...
Note that this isn't the same as uninstalling everything via the official process since this leaves behind stuff like Adobe's Genuine client which verifies you're not using pirated software.
I don't understand why people are so obsessed with Adobe, since their software nowadays isn't that good. There are tons of alternatives out there that work better and do the same thing, if not more.
Is it just laziness/reluctance to learn something new?
If you are just doing graphic work yourself, there are other applications like Affinity that can work, as long as you are not collaborating.
Affinity Photo. Much more stable than Photoshop and I like it a lot, but there are things Photoshop does that Affinity doesn't and I can't think of anything that goes the other way.
Krita. Fairly sleek, especially for OSS. Becoming very competitive for digital illustration, but not (and not intended to be) a great photo editor.
paint.net. Good for fast edits but simplified, not a true competitor.
GIMP. Ancient, slow, ugly, clunky, severely lacking in features, and somehow even less stable than Photoshop.
I needed to update my CV recently and expected to spend 1h in InDesign. I spent 6h in the end.
– InDesign crashes while saving and destroys my document. 1h lost.
– InDesign crashes while exporting a PDF of my document (9 pages). I hadn't saved. 1h lost.
– InDesign crashes (reproducible) when adding/inserting a page (mind you, that's page 10). First time this happened I hadn't saved for half an hour. I was really considering changing the text because I couldn't solve this. Then I found [1]. Quote:
> [...] after speaking to Adobe chat help, they asked me to send my file to them. They sent it back to me and everything went back to normal. [...] "File was corrupted , we recovered it by using scripts and then saved as IDML."
– Because of the above I had the idea of exporting to IDML. Re-importing then allowed me to add the page but I had subtle formatting errors where the last character before a tab or a newline on lines that had the font changed via a character style had the wrong style. Fixing this: 1h.
– When I re-arranged parts of the CV via copy & paste entire sections I copied lost the small caps/italic styles they had assigned (acronyms/names). Going through the entire document to fix this: 1.5h.
I should have known better. Less than two years ago I helped a friend do a snail mail mass mailing where we used a CSV file with addresses to create hundreds of (two page) letters. All in InDesign. Everything worked until we tried to export as PDF, for printing. The solution was to export as 'interactive' PDF and only export about ~100 pages at a time.
I bought Affinity Publisher already when the thing with the letters happened. But I naively believed updating my CV would be quick in InDesign.
In retrospect typesetting the CV from scratch in Publisher would have been the better choice.
Last week I helped a friend with a commercial that was mostly 3D and some motion graphics done in After Effects (Ae). We couldn't get it to render in After Effects 2019. It would run out memory and then just not render the frame or crash. In the end we exported the project for an older version and went back to an Ae CC version from six years before. That worked without any issues.
All this is just shocking. I used InDesign from 1.0 and it was not that bad, a decade ago. Ae ... the same. See above.
As of a recent update, Acrobat Reader (free version) refuses to let me open any document w/o signing into CC first. Another wtf.
What a friend of mine replied when he heard about my InDesign adventure:
> I'm on CS6 for anything Adobe. Just junk now.
[1] https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/indesign-crashes-whe...