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Trump took their adobe acrobat (lemm.ee)
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A reddit post in r/fednews. Trump Took Away Adobe Acrobat and it took Me 45min to Combine Files Fed only Not that this matters but for anyone who thinks this is creating efficiency, Trump/Elmo took away my agencies Adobe acrobate away which means I can't edit documents. So instead of being efficient and taking 5seconds to combine a pdf, I took 45min along with IT to combine files. That's how I spend my time these days, trying to overcome the obstacles they put in place so I can do my job. For all this talk about government employees not doing work, I'm working double time just to keep up with what they are doing.

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[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

If they cared about efficiency, I'd still be employed at a company that decreased government department mean time to hire from 18 months to 6 weeks.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Goddamnit, i wish people would understand that this is the entire point! They don't want government employees to do their jobs, that's why they're firing all of them!

Our entire infantilized society is too dependent on authority to understand when that authority has turned on it and then has no conception of how to fight back against it except to do their jobs harder like for the love of any and all good things please pull your heads out of the fucking sand!

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Why should the powers that be fight plastic pollution when it keeps people's brains clogged, unable to conceive what's going on around them, much less change it.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 18 points 8 hours ago

This is fake news. Trump loves pdf files.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

You can join PDFs in GIMP in a pinch.

Its not efficient but its possible..

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

I have 100% used my iPad to combine PDFs in a pinch. I was in a bind and away from my desk. Turns out, iPads can combine PDFs directly from the file manager. Hate on Apple all you want, but that shit should come standard with every OS by this point.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have a cli command for it somewhere in my shell history

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Oooh I'd love to see that if you find a spare moment 🙏

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

I'll totally check it if I remember. Don't hesitate to ping me if I don't reply with it in a day.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Windows, Linux, or mac?

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago) (1 children)

Linux or Mac, but if you only have windows I can convert, thank you!

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 minutes ago

With pdftk it's pdftk $(ls -v *.pdf) cat output merged.pdf for all pdf files in the directory and pdftk a.pdf b.pdf cat output merged.pdf for specific files.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Libreoffice draw can edit PDFs, and is polished the same as all the rest of the Libreoffice suite. It works pretty well in my experience.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

What is wrong with pdfcat?

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 25 minutes ago

Sometimes I don't like using a CLI program, especially for something so visual like PDFs. If I don't need to make any edits to a PDF and am only arranging it, I like to use a program called PDFarranger.

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

pdfunite FTW

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Nobody knows it exists, apparently.

(And even worse, people are too computer-illiterate to think "hey, maybe there's a solution for my problem" and figure out how to go find it.)

[–] AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

NAPS2 will do it too, and quickly.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago

Fuck Trump but fuck Adobe too. There are free and open source alternatives, acrobat is a bloody scam.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 hours ago

Not paying for Adobe products might be the only thing this admin does that I'll support

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

Here to plug Stirling PDF as free and very nice to use to do anything like that. Had to use it cuz foxxit moved signatures to paid? Or forced to use an account idk. Annoying.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I mean, I typically use pdftk for stuff like that, but I get that's not for everyone. Taking away a software licence without checking if anyone needs it is just crazy. Don't they use it for redaction and stuff like that as well?