exit stage left, pursued by floor plans
Sep. 21st, 2022 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThe downside of doing a task well is that people start assigning you lots of related tasks. *wry*
In other words, because Mom Boss knows I've been successfully creating downtown apartment floor plans from poor-quality architectural sketches and/or from scratch and my own measurements, I am now in charge of fixing up the Collegetown floor plan handouts. The main goal is to replace the very outdated company logo with our current company logo, but I am also cleaning them up and standardizing some of the formatting as I go, as well as updating occasional things like new washer/dryer units or kitchen remodels.
This is an annoyingly involved process that starts with scanning the hard copies (because we only have hard copies, because digitizing them was never high priority over the past decade), then tweaking the image files to clean and sharpen them, then editing the diagrams and text as needed, and finally turning the updated image files into PDFs. Except, of course, for the pages that get scanned as PDFs, converted to Word files for text editing, and then converted back to PDFs, because gods forbid we have a consistent process flow. *headdesk*
The particularly annoying part is that a LOT of the files are ever-so-slightly skewed, which means either the vertical lines or the horizontal lines will be a degree or so off of true. And then I have to fix each wall manually, because useful graphics programs either cost money (and are therefore unavailable) or are not approved for download onto company computers. *sigh*
Still, it is very satisfying to finish each floor plan (or set of floor plans) and know that we now have a nice, clean digital master copy that can be edited MUCH more easily in the future. :)
In other words, because Mom Boss knows I've been successfully creating downtown apartment floor plans from poor-quality architectural sketches and/or from scratch and my own measurements, I am now in charge of fixing up the Collegetown floor plan handouts. The main goal is to replace the very outdated company logo with our current company logo, but I am also cleaning them up and standardizing some of the formatting as I go, as well as updating occasional things like new washer/dryer units or kitchen remodels.
This is an annoyingly involved process that starts with scanning the hard copies (because we only have hard copies, because digitizing them was never high priority over the past decade), then tweaking the image files to clean and sharpen them, then editing the diagrams and text as needed, and finally turning the updated image files into PDFs. Except, of course, for the pages that get scanned as PDFs, converted to Word files for text editing, and then converted back to PDFs, because gods forbid we have a consistent process flow. *headdesk*
The particularly annoying part is that a LOT of the files are ever-so-slightly skewed, which means either the vertical lines or the horizontal lines will be a degree or so off of true. And then I have to fix each wall manually, because useful graphics programs either cost money (and are therefore unavailable) or are not approved for download onto company computers. *sigh*
Still, it is very satisfying to finish each floor plan (or set of floor plans) and know that we now have a nice, clean digital master copy that can be edited MUCH more easily in the future. :)
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Date: 2022-09-22 03:05 am (UTC)If you want photo editing, you want Affinity Photo. If you want vectors, then it's Affinity Designer.
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