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+<h1>Why Does Everyone Use Adobe Acrobat [Reader]?</h1>
+
+<p>
+  This is something that I've never been able to figure out. All through high
+  school I had to use PDFs. And if you wanted to open a PDF, everyone understood
+  that you needed Adobe Acrobat Reader. Even web sites where you downloaded PDFs
+  insisted that in order to open them, you were going to have to follow a
+  download link to make sure you have Acrobat on your PC.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  Fast-forward a few years into college and I'm using PDFs more than ever. Every
+  professor ever is scanning and uploading course material, so out comes Acrobat
+  Reader for literally every teacher and student. At this point I was actually
+  used to using Firefox (PDF.js) to view PDFs for a couple of reasons. First of
+  all, Firefox usually opened PDFs faster than Acrobat Reader did. Reader was
+  getting bigger with every release, and eventually had a monstrous UI to load
+  up every time I wanted to open a tiny PDF file. Second, Firefox had smooth
+  scrolling for page-width documents. Reader was getting slower and laggier with
+  each release, to the point where scrolling through a PDF was no longer buttery
+  smooth but jittery and stuttery. It also seemed like Reader purposefully
+  wouldn't slide the page when you used a mouse wheel. It would jump down a few
+  lines at a time like it was simulating the down arrow.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  By my senior year I had switched from Windows to Linux full-time and it was
+  then I found out about <a href="https://mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a> and from then on
+  things were never the same. It's literally the best PDF reader I've ever used,
+  and I tried out quite a few. There are desktop and mobile apps. It opens
+  almost instantly. It lets you easily resize the page with excellent keyboard
+  shortcuts. There are no giant menu bars on either side of the page to squish
+  the document down to an unreadable size. Having a dozen of them open at once
+  doesn't bog down my PC. It's also available for all of the relevant operating
+  systems I've used (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD)! Oh and password-protected
+  PDFs are supported as well.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  It's a fantastic piece of software And the best part is it comes with a
+  variety of tools to edit and manipulate PDFs as well. If the folks I went to
+  school with thought you needed the free Acrobat Reader to view a PDF, they
+  sure as heck thought you needed to buy Acrobat Pro to edit one. Some of them
+  refused to pay for it and used a variety of online services to upload, split
+  or merge, and download PDFs. I honestly for the life of me can't understand
+  why. MuPDF comes with <code>mutool</code>, which does all of the things I
+  would ever need to do with a PDF. It can attempt to convert a PDF to other
+  formats, like HTML. It can split and combine documents. It can even create
+  them from scratch and sign them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  It's also free and open source. Can you imagine that? PDF viewing and editing
+  being free and open source? It's AGPL (in addition to being commercially)
+  licensed by the creators. The only slight drawback is the desktop version
+  apparently does not yet let you fill out forms. Not sure why but this isn't
+  something I use very frequently.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  It's not the hottest piece of tech out there, but it just plain works and
+  works really well. Maybe the only reason more people I know don't use it is
+  because Adobe is synonymous with the PDF format. It doesn't seem like that big
+  of a deal, but I feel like Acrobat has always been a piece of software that
+  has frustrated new or infrequent users in computing. And that's just not good.
+  Maybe the barrier to using MuPDF is the lack of GUI and abundance of
+  keybindings, but for me that's no sweat. I'd say to anyone to just try it out
+  and see if they like it. It is free, after all.
+</p>