Programming insight of the day

[kingandy]

As a desktop publishing package, Acrobat makes a nice SUCKS ELEPHANT BALLS.

EDIT: Admittedly, I am using an edition that's a couple of versions old. It's possible that by the current edition they've made it more obvious how to MAKE TEXT BOLD.

Comments

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

hmm, that sentence didn't parse well.

"As a desktop publishing packages Acrobat SUCKS ELEPHANTS BALLS" perhaps?

[kingandy]

I know what I mean.

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Since when do I get away with that excuse :-P

[kingandy]

Since I did this intentionally for comedy effect. :P

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

So you say!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

InDesign, however, is rather nice.

I'm guessing you don't have access to it?

[kingandy]

Nope. Does it do PDFs?

We're not actually doing print work, it's a downloadable form for people to fill out. I don't think we use it enough to warrant splashing out on another package...

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

there's a few free PDF output programs that'll turn anything you can print to PDF if you'fe a better design package you can use.

[kingandy]

Nah, we had an existing PDF that I wanted to edit. It was just a matter of adding some headers, but damn.