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No, seriously, it just hit me while reading this overcomplicated bit of stupid:
This is something I do all the time, and you know what? Here's my entire process:
- Open the destination printer
- Hold the printer
- Drag all the PDFs you need to print to that printer window
- Release the printer
That's it. Four steps. No file conversions, no nothing.
But reading that crap, I realized something that explains everything about Acrobat, that makes everything make sense:
The Acrobat team has an internal culture that views complicated as good, and the more complicated a process or product is, the better.
Think about it. Think about the UI for Acrobat. The installers. The update process. Think about every.single.thing that team creates and every.single.thing about those products that make you want to kill. The Acrobat team is, for whatever reason, incapable of thinking about simple ease of use as a design decision, and even worse, is incapable of doing anything to change it.
I think they'd rather suck a dead dog's dick than design a UI whose only good feature is "at least it's not Lotus Notes".
Categories: Adobe
Posted by John C. Welch at 19:51 | Permalink
©2003-until I'm fucking dead and then some. you steal my shit, and I will fuck with you like you were a lonely shepherd's slowest sheep.
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