I do most of what I need with PDFs with Firefox. Mostly on Windows (because work) but it works just fine on my Macs, probably just as well on Linux. Firefox is free software, too — it’s good enough for most. Though your blog does get into some more advanced stuff.
If it’s form fillable, I just type. If not, Firefox can insert text. That’s most of what I need. We had one document that was oriented wrong — it was made landscape but “printed” to PDF in portrait, so everything was sideways and it confused people. “Just print it, write by hand, and hand deliver it,” the sender told people. I printed it to a new PDF, correcting the orientation, and showed people how to type in it (it’s not form fillable). Made part of our job a lot easier. Better still if I could make it form fillable, most likely by recreating it from scratch. Wouldn’t be hard to do, but I try to stay in my lane.
We had one document that was oriented wrong — it was made landscape but “printed” to PDF in portrait, so everything was sideways and it confused people. “Just print it, write by hand, and hand deliver it,” the sender told people.
I’m guessing the confused people were confused by many otherwise simple tasks as well…
Some people are utterly hopeless when it comes to tech.
I do most of what I need with PDFs with Firefox. Mostly on Windows (because work) but it works just fine on my Macs, probably just as well on Linux. Firefox is free software, too — it’s good enough for most. Though your blog does get into some more advanced stuff.
If it’s form fillable, I just type. If not, Firefox can insert text. That’s most of what I need. We had one document that was oriented wrong — it was made landscape but “printed” to PDF in portrait, so everything was sideways and it confused people. “Just print it, write by hand, and hand deliver it,” the sender told people. I printed it to a new PDF, correcting the orientation, and showed people how to type in it (it’s not form fillable). Made part of our job a lot easier. Better still if I could make it form fillable, most likely by recreating it from scratch. Wouldn’t be hard to do, but I try to stay in my lane.
I’m guessing the confused people were confused by many otherwise simple tasks as well…
Some people are utterly hopeless when it comes to tech.
They are, but it’s nice to help others. It’s genuinely nice to be helpful, but it’s also useful to be useful.