“Wisdom begins in wonder,” said Socrates. Plutarch said, “from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
Combining those two, it’s a wonder that I didn’t have the wisdom to uninstall Wondershare’s PDFelement before today.
You know how when you open most any software program that’s installed on your computer—Microsoft Word, let’s say, or a Web browser, for example—it opens up, ready to let you work?
Not so the PDFelement program. It sporadically requires your online username and password. You know, that secure string of characters you use to log onto a Web site, the sort that, if it’s actually secure, there’s no way to remember. The 16-random-digits that you trust your browser or security program to autofill?
So, to use this program, which is installed on my own computer, I have to be connected to the Net, find my password in the secure vault where I keep them, then block copy and paste it into the PDFelement popup, before I can use this program that I paid for years ago.
All this hassle to use a simple PDF editor.
“So why do you put yourself through this?” you ask. Actually, that’s a good question. There was a time when it was my only option for assembling scattered pages into a single document. A time when I used it to output PDFs DriveThruRPG would accept. (Which DriveThru no longer will.)
Come to think of it, I can now do both of those tasks with Affinity Publisher, a full graphic layout program, without the insane security log in.
Thank you for the question. PDFelement is now uninstalled. Let’s never speak of it again.