wherein Liz curses a lot at her computer
Dec. 19th, 2008 02:07 amI HATE MY COMPUTER AND PRINTER.
In other words, it took me THREE HOURS to do a formatting and printing job on The Sun and the Moon that would have taken one hour tops on my old system. Fucking Windows updates that purport to make everything 'more intuitive and useful' and really just screw all the options around so I don't know where anything is anymore, and stupid fancy-schmancy printers that do things backwards and screw up all my pagination and for all their bells and whistles still CANNOT DO AUTOMATIC DOUBLE-SIDED PRINTING. Useless! All of it!
But. I persevered, and finally found the correct formatting option (but only AFTER I'd split the damned document into six individual files so as to work around the printer miscues) and then I had fun with bottle caps and pencils and ink and made a little illustration, and THEN I fought an epic battle with the scanning function on the stupid printer, which dumps the images right into some HP photo program that WILL NOT LET ME SAVE THE IMAGES TO ANY RECOGNIZABLE DIRECTORY, GODDAMNIT, but which did, finally, cough up an option for copying the damned thing straight to the clipboard, which allowed me to paste it into the Word document.
...
ARGH.
Ardis had bloody goddamn well appreciate the story, is all I have to say.
*scuttles off to sew the spine of the booklet*
In other words, it took me THREE HOURS to do a formatting and printing job on The Sun and the Moon that would have taken one hour tops on my old system. Fucking Windows updates that purport to make everything 'more intuitive and useful' and really just screw all the options around so I don't know where anything is anymore, and stupid fancy-schmancy printers that do things backwards and screw up all my pagination and for all their bells and whistles still CANNOT DO AUTOMATIC DOUBLE-SIDED PRINTING. Useless! All of it!
But. I persevered, and finally found the correct formatting option (but only AFTER I'd split the damned document into six individual files so as to work around the printer miscues) and then I had fun with bottle caps and pencils and ink and made a little illustration, and THEN I fought an epic battle with the scanning function on the stupid printer, which dumps the images right into some HP photo program that WILL NOT LET ME SAVE THE IMAGES TO ANY RECOGNIZABLE DIRECTORY, GODDAMNIT, but which did, finally, cough up an option for copying the damned thing straight to the clipboard, which allowed me to paste it into the Word document.
...
ARGH.
Ardis had bloody goddamn well appreciate the story, is all I have to say.
*scuttles off to sew the spine of the booklet*