I got stuck at work an extra hour and a half tonight because of a stupid 12 page PDF high school newspaper file generated with Microsoft Publisher that would not go through our RIP.
It kept crashing Acrobat when I tried splitting pages out individually.
It was supposed to be black only, but everything color RGB (not CMYK).
It was poorly designed to begin with.
I was ready to scream.
Fortunately, one of my co-workers had a workaround.
It was one in a long line of jobs today that had me pulling my hair out.
I worked on a college publication that sounded like it had been written by high school students.
I literally banged my head on the desk while reading that one.
I always wondered before I got into the industry why prepress people and graphic designers* hated each other.
Now I know. Boy, do I know.
*I'm using the term designer loosely. Most of the crap we see every day is done by some yahoo who thinks just because he/she can work a computer, he/she is a designer. It's why I can't find work as a designer that pays anything.
It kept crashing Acrobat when I tried splitting pages out individually.
It was supposed to be black only, but everything color RGB (not CMYK).
It was poorly designed to begin with.
I was ready to scream.
Fortunately, one of my co-workers had a workaround.
It was one in a long line of jobs today that had me pulling my hair out.
I worked on a college publication that sounded like it had been written by high school students.
I literally banged my head on the desk while reading that one.
I always wondered before I got into the industry why prepress people and graphic designers* hated each other.
Now I know. Boy, do I know.
*I'm using the term designer loosely. Most of the crap we see every day is done by some yahoo who thinks just because he/she can work a computer, he/she is a designer. It's why I can't find work as a designer that pays anything.
Name: LaDonna
