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US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel | The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions (www.theverge.com)

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[–] dan@upvote.au 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can't fill it out with Firefox? I think pdf.js (which Firefox uses) supports PDF forms.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I've tried every other option I could think of. All the browsers, a few websites, ms office products, non ms office products, some graphic design tools.. to Adobe's credit they did a great job making sure people had to pay

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ahh, it's probably using some proprietary features that only exist in Adobe products.

I'm not sure if they still sell it, but Adobe used to have a suite of form tools where the person filling out the form had to use Adobe Acrobat (it used some non-standard PDF form features), and the company collecting the form responses had to use software built on top of Adobe ColdFusion (which costs thousands of dollars per server). They really tried to lock people in to their form ecosystem.