In light of recent hacks into Adobe, Yahoo and Vodafone, amongst many others, there is a risk your email address and/or personal information may still be out there for hackers to use. There is a website which tells you if your information is out there: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ And true enough, my Adobe account is listed as hacked. Luckily I use a unique email address for adobe, so I was able to kill that straight away, but there is potential for hackers to cause some serious damage if you use the same email address and password for different services.
Yeah Adobe for me too, I had prior to breach changed my Adobe password and changed it again, previous password was very weak but I didn't care on that site new one is a little bit stronger but could do with being strengthened further. Was very disappointed that Adobe let this happen. That's the only one I have that was affected.
When you think about it 153,000,000 people is quite a large number and particularly when they are the kind of people with enough money to have a connection to Adobe who sell notoriously expensive products. In my case it was Lightroom which I have owned and paid for since version 1 which I use for my photography.
I am always nervous using a site like that as it has the potential by the very action of checking to fish for live targets, on the balance of probabilities I choose to think it was safe.
I've just taken out a subscription for Adobe Acrobat Pro - £7 a month, worth the money I think as I deal with pdf's all the time, buying the full software would be £400+, something I could never afford. Ok, so I never actually 'own' the software, but at least its at a price which is acceptable to me.
My Lightroom software started out over £100 every year or so it cost me another 100 quid for an upgrade, now it is getting a bit cheaper for upgrades last one was £59 or so, my beef with Adobe is the dollar pound, or worse, equivalence in price for things like full Photoshop, that is why they were so heavily pirated. Now it is becoming impossible to purchase perpetual licences from Adobe they are moving everything to Creative Cloud. At £7 a month I would call Acrobat overpriced, are you doing a lot of editing of existing Acrobat files Rob? I do a lot of work with PDF generation and manipulation and I don't do any of it through Acrobat.
I know there are plenty of freebie pdf utilities, indeed I have used these in the past, from Bullzip, CutePDF, PrimoPDF to PDFSAM, but none of them match Acrobat Pro for sheer simplicity and powerful set of tools to manipulate pdf's. My main use of Acrobat Pro is creating PDF's from many sources, whether word docs, emails, screenshots, newletters, invoices and portfolios. Combining pdf's is also something I do a lot, and PDFSAM, good as it is, can't handle protected pdf's.
Ah I see, if you are assembling them, then that is a specific and hard task, I use libraries that create PDF's direct from Windows GDI canvas objects, there are excellent tools out there that are as competent as Adobe, Tracker Software do PDF-XChange Pro which will probably do the majority of what you want take a look, perpetual licence as well. (they also have a PDF reader that is top notch and not as buggy as Acrobat) link: http://www.tracker-software.com/buy-now (sorry that is a buy now page I'm not pushing them it just gives you the best link to the features and the price). I used them for the last 11 years to provide PDF support in my applications, we just eliminated them from our software recently but that was very hard to do and was only done to simplify our end user support.
If you use lastpass to store your passwords (and the associated emails) it will go through the list of all your emails and tell you if they have been hacked. Useful if you have a lot of emails that you would, otherwise, have to type individually into https://haveibeenpwned.com/
just type my username, howerd. into https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and it tells me that username has been breached on two sites! Don't think it is me though.
