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In my case I'm opening legacy documents with all kinds of embedded garbage in them that barely renders correctly in non adobe pdf readers. As you said, filling in existing forms on a basic pdf is something you can do in a browser. You can't go through and properly edit stuff with half a dozen layers of images, CAD drawing borders, engineering notes scribbled in at such low resolution that they're largely illegible, and god knows what else in it. You can't combine random piecemeal garbage from 7 different documents with different setting and stich them together for presentations or submissions. The only thing that works is acrobat pro.
>That sounds retarded. Why are you doing it that way.
Because I get paid a lot to do it. Highly regulated industries have all kinds of bureaucratic bullshit especially regarding safety critical components. Changing certain procedures for requesting stuff may quite literally require an act of congress, and going through and retooling engineering documents may require tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars of labor to thoroughly vet that everything is in the proper order. It's like replacing electrical in a house that's still using knob and tube. Once you touch any of it, you practically have to do a full gut and rebuild. Yeah, it doesn't make sense that stuff in an unrelated wall is OK as long as you don't touch something on the other side of a house, but that's just the way the regulations are.
