I honestly don't know why anyone uses Adobe acrobat for anything - reader or the editor. PDF is an open standard.

Plenty of open source software does a decent job of making PDFs - Libre Office for example. And if you have Microsoft Word then you can export documents to PDF without issue; or you can use Print to PDF tools too

Its unlikely any office environment doesnt already have licenses for Microsoft Office so just bin Acrobat and direct people to use office. And if you're not paying for office then why are you paying for Acrobat?

Foxit was good several years ago - no clue about recently

The only thing I use acrobat for is for converting pdf’s to other formats. Why reader can’t do that I don’t know.

Time to install

Linux!! 🎉

Even if you did edit them, there are better tools than Acrobat.

What is a good alternative for saving fillable form PDFs as a flat file or image? I've been using ~~openoffice~~ libreoffice draw for editing PDFs recently but every method I have come across seems like a workaround rather than a feature, while adobe can do it with a click.

I'm a professional, I use professional apps. I don't make the rules!

I actually used to use DC a lot in my previous job (everyone had access), and having full edit functionality would help me in this one too. I've tried other options but I haven't requested a licence because the main thing I do nowadays is merge and split pdfs and there are other options for that. I only miss it occasionally.

evince the goat for anybody looking for a PDF reader on Linux (nobody asked but hey)