The Bloody Doors Off

I’m going to say this A LOT in the coming weeks.

I really, really fucking hate Pagemaker. It’s an outdated software that should be expunged from computers everywhere. I spent almost 5 hours today working on dummy pages (which in retrospect was a good thing) trying to make my layouts look the same as Walter’s. Turns out, the bloody print driver wasn’t applied. You know how, with any software that you can print from, you usually have a default printer set? Yeah, Pagemaker doesn’t do that. And sure enough, once applied the whole kit and kaboodle went to hell. Yes, a part of me should’ve checked the preferences. But when I’d go to print a page, the driver was recognized. So, fuck you for wasting my time today, Pagemaker.

Oh right, I nearly forgot to mention: the program was also not properly installed on the computer I’m using. It won’t automatically hyphenate, and has no dictionary installed. It’d only allow manual hyphenation and if you changed the leading AT ALL (which apparently you have to constantly do per article), you can’t rely on this.

I don’t like charging the client when shit like this happens. If I was working on proper pages? I wouldn’t.

And oh yes, in 30 minutes I was able to import all 20 pages of templates into InDesign and set up the style guides, even have the styles be there when the program boots up. I fucking OWN that software. But I don’t know when they’re gonna switch over. If I had hair (don’t touch the van dyke!), it’d be pulled out tonight.

At one point, I just sat there spinning in my chair, metaphorically. It was crunch time and Walter had to get the pages out, so he couldn’t offer any advice. And I don’t know the upload procedure to the FTP and the printer yet. Let’s hope he doesn’t get laid out with the same virus that hit me this week, ‘cuz I’ll be fucking useless at the end.