sigh.

[sisyphusshrugged]

things I knew already and things I learned

1) don't do mechanical layout in Illustrator
2) don't try to put the mechanical layouts of bus shelter posters with resolution-dependent embedded files in them into a powerpoint document
3) don't change to a version of your production software no-one on the planet has yet
4) if you must ignore 3), at least save the output in a format which is capable of being opened (or at least viewed) by another application
5) Don't switch to the new OS, no matter how sexy it is, if none of your vendors have it yet.

What I didn't know

1) there are people who have never heard rules 1-5 above
2) my internal clients take technical advice from them
3) I get to fix it

blogging will resume tomorrow

Comments

[avram]

Since when is Illustrator a bad tool for mechanical layout?

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

since it's less user friendly than quark and if the person who used it isn't very good, it can take literally hours to figure out how to deconstruct the file to make simple changes.

jmo, of course.

[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

But it's soooooooooooooo sexy!

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

There is more to life than sex.

(thinks: god, what if he asks for a cite?)

[serenada.livejournal.com]

(the martial arts)

Carpeicthus, meet Serenada

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

aka Pleat Girl.

She hits people. They hit back. For, like, hours a day.

I'm askeered of her.

Not as askeered as I am of her sister, though.