I forgot to add the thing that was really the last straw... I needed to print out a form to sign and send to a company. I opened it and printed it. I then wanted to copy-and-paste the company's address to my text file, because their address was printed all on one line at the bottom of the PDF. Simple, right? Wrong...
I chose the text selection tool. Highlighted the address. Then CTRL-C, ALT-TAB to EditPlus, CTRL-V... Nothing. Empty Clipboard.
So I flip back to Adobe Reader and try to use the Edit >> Copy from for drop-down menu... Copy is greyed-out. So I ended up writing out the address in my keyboard-atrophied hand writing :)
So, yes, it does it's job. It displays and prints PDF files. But anything else seems to be a real challenge.
And, yes, I figured that Adobe Reader has some sort of copy-protection for authors who want that feature disabled for their documents, but if a document is copy-protected (the one I was using had no reason to be. It was a simple form.) then you shouldn't be able to select it AND it should tell you that it's protected.
Because at this point I don't even know what happened with that... Was it broke? Was it doing what is was designed to do, but just not telling me? If so, then why was I able to highlight it and why was the text selection tool not greyed-out?
I don't know. Just sometimes you're trying to get work done and you run into simple things like this that bug the sh*t out of you. Not because it was a huge problem, but because it's such a simple feature. I'm sitting there going: "Well, I'll be damned!... After all these updates and tweaking they can't even muster a simple copy-and-paste feature. Un-freakin-believable..."
Anyway, yeah. Sorry for the rant :)