cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3882090
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The problem is IT (me included) had installed Adobe Pro for years apart of the image no matter what.
Then licensing became more of a pain, and we don't really have a great way of telling if a user needs Pro or Reader.
Luckily with OS upgrades from 7 to 10 most of us fixed that and just made Reader available and Pro as a request.
That's crazy! Kind of similar but luckily we did keep it just reader in the image. If requested pro was installed, which of course everyone requested and we didn't really put up a stink because of the same thing you stated! Then the end came for version 11 and switch to DC came and we needed to get our act together... took a few months but we had to have everyone we didn't immediately know submit business justification for its use. Half were denied. I think we have 400 licenses and licensing is all portal based now. I wanna say we had over 800 with it originally. That was super annoying.
We use pdf xchange. Low one time payment for the license, everyone gets it. Done, and done.