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>> I stupidly assumed that since we have PDF editing software, it would
>> be easy to, you know, edit the PDF file.
>
> Yeh you'd think so, but for some reason they seem to want to make it
> really hard/impossible to actually modify any detail on a PDF page.
Pretty dumb really. Especially when PDF has so many enhancements over PS
that should make this kind of thing really easy.
> I
> always wondered myself if there was any software capable of doing this...
In principle it shouldn't be too hard.
In fact, in principle you can ask Ghostscript to convert the PDF into
PostScript and edit the thing by hand. In practice, this turns out to
be...rather hard.
(Not many people know this, but you *can* in fact write PDF files using
only Notepad. You'd have to be insane to try it though...)
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> Well anyway, I just had a conversation with somebody who doesn't speak
> English very well, and doesn't know how to operate a computer. As if that
> wasn't bad enough, the phone line kept repeatedly cutting out. Perfect.
> :-S
Even better is when their OS isn't in English, then the fun really starts
over the phone :-)
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scott wrote:
>> Well anyway, I just had a conversation with somebody who doesn't speak
>> English very well, and doesn't know how to operate a computer. As if
>> that wasn't bad enough, the phone line kept repeatedly cutting out.
>> Perfect. :-S
>
> Even better is when their OS isn't in English, then the fun really
> starts over the phone :-)
The fun is, she couldn't log in because the laptop had a UK keyboard. So
we sent her a French keyboard. Ah, but the laptop still thinks it has a
UK keyboard, so now the keys pressed don't even correspond to what the
keyboard types!
Of course, she changed the regional settings - but only for her account.
That means the Windows login prompt still has the wrong keymap.
Isn't technology wonderful?
Can my day get any worse??
I said CAN MY DAY GET ANY WORSE?!? DO YOU HEAR ME MURPHY!?
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"scott" <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
> > I stupidly assumed that since we have PDF editing software, it would be
> > easy to, you know, edit the PDF file.
>
> Yeh you'd think so, but for some reason they seem to want to make it really
> hard/impossible to actually modify any detail on a PDF page. I always
> wondered myself if there was any software capable of doing this...
I thought that was the purpose of PDF. Not being able to change documents,
unless you have the original, is perfect for version control.
Stephen
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I'm almost glad the number doesn't work... :-P
> >>
> >> Still, I don't suppose there's any way I can realistically get rid of
> >> this person.
> >
> > I bet that's what the Call Centres in India say about us :)
>
> Hmm. Probably.
>
> Well anyway, I just had a conversation with somebody who doesn't speak
> English very well, and doesn't know how to operate a computer. As if
> that wasn't bad enough, the phone line kept repeatedly cutting out.
> Perfect. :-S
Welcome to my world ;)
Stephen
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>>> I stupidly assumed that since we have PDF editing software, it would be
>>> easy to, you know, edit the PDF file.
>> Yeh you'd think so, but for some reason they seem to want to make it really
>> hard/impossible to actually modify any detail on a PDF page. I always
>> wondered myself if there was any software capable of doing this...
>
> I thought that was the purpose of PDF. Not being able to change documents,
> unless you have the original, is perfect for version control.
On the contrary, you can build PDF "forms" which can be filled in
electronically and returned. (But only if you have the server-side
technology. Isn't that nice?) The whole marketing for Adobe Acrobat
talks about "collaboration" and exchanging data and vivid, "alive"
documents.
Adobe Acrobat can indeed alter several aspects of a PDF file. Just not
any of the *useful* ones...
We use a 3rd-party product for version control. The files you get from
it might be editable, but the "definitive version" is whichever one
exists in the document control system, so it doesn't matter.
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Invisible wrote:
> Isn't technology wonderful?
>
> Can my day get any worse??
>
> I said CAN MY DAY GET ANY WORSE?!? DO YOU HEAR ME MURPHY!?
He heard me.
I was just asked to set up a web presentation. Do you think I could get
the God-damned thing to work?!
First I turned on the laptop, and it spent 20 minutes updating itself.
So rather than having half an hour to get it going, I had 10 minutes. By
this point all the attendees have turned up and their waiting to know
when it'll be working - so no pressure or anything. Not that I've ever
used Live Meeting before. But will it connect the desktop? No, no, and,
er, NO.
So we decide to give up (they don't want to keep the other sites
waiting), and everybody goes home. 3 minutes later, Live Meeting works
perfectly. WTF?
WHY DOES MY LIFE HATE ME?! >_<
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Invisible wrote:
> WHY DOES MY LIFE HATE ME?! >_<
...and now the French women is back.
When will it all end?
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>> WHY DOES MY LIFE HATE ME?! >_<
>
> ...and now the French women is back.
>
> When will it all end?
Your life really doesn't sound so bad, it all seems like normal jobs an IT
guy working for an international company should be doing. Try getting up at
4am, sitting on a plane for 8 hours, then going to a customer meeting for 2
hours, then having dinner (in a time zone 6 hours behind where you started),
then having a 3 hour conference call with non-English-speaking people, then
going to bed 24 hours after you got up, then working 16 hours a day for a
week. Want to swap?
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scott wrote:
>>> WHY DOES MY LIFE HATE ME?! >_<
>>
>> ...and now the French women is back.
>>
>> When will it all end?
>
> Your life really doesn't sound so bad, it all seems like normal jobs an
> IT guy working for an international company should be doing.
A normal IT guy working for an international company would presumably be
person wouldn't be considered utterly incompetent every single time any
kind of minor technical glitch occurs. But maybe I'm just kidding myself...
> Try
> getting up at 4am, sitting on a plane for 8 hours, then going to a
> customer meeting for 2 hours, then having dinner (in a time zone 6 hours
> behind where you started), then having a 3 hour conference call with
> non-English-speaking people, then going to bed 24 hours after you got
> up, then working 16 hours a day for a week. Want to swap?
What's the pay packet like? :-P
(That's rhetorical of course. I wouldn't travel to a foreign country if
you paid me.)
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