I'd love to be able to use the Adobe Creative Suite on an hourly or even a daily basis. The cheapest I can seem to get it for short use is $80/month. Ouch. You'd think they could meter it by the hour or day, and even at the $80/month rate, $2.70 a day would seem reasonable.
There's a lot of software that would be useful to have access to on an ad-hoc basis -- a few hours here, a few hours there, but the minimum rates are so freaking high it's not worth it.
Good thinking. I once had some architects send me a couple of 800MB PDF files with massive renderings in them. Needed to publish this. Acrobat is fine for reducing files of this magnitude and I fired up a Windows VM with 20 cores and 64 GB RAM, bought a copy of Acrobat for one month and did the job.
Now the 18$ or something was not much, and I worked it into the bill, but hourly would be nicer.
I did use Adobe Premiere once for a customer to edit a few movie clips, but total usage was about 2 days. Same for r
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I'd love to be able to use the Adobe Creative Suite on an hourly or even a daily basis. The cheapest I can seem to get it for short use is $80/month. Ouch. You'd think they could meter it by the hour or day, and even at the $80/month rate, $2.70 a day would seem reasonable.
There's a lot of software that would be useful to have access to on an ad-hoc basis -- a few hours here, a few hours there, but the minimum rates are so freaking high it's not worth it.
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Good thinking. I once had some architects send me a couple of 800MB PDF files with massive renderings in them. Needed to publish this. Acrobat is fine for reducing files of this magnitude and I fired up a Windows VM with 20 cores and 64 GB RAM, bought a copy of Acrobat for one month and did the job.
Now the 18$ or something was not much, and I worked it into the bill, but hourly would be nicer.
I did use Adobe Premiere once for a customer to edit a few movie clips, but total usage was about 2 days. Same for r