Not every email needs to be a PDF attachment

[kittenblue]

@Really Not All That Bright

You can open it with Windows Picture & Fax viewer, too… actually, AFAIK, XP automatically opens .tif files that way…

Obviously, that won’t work if you’re on a Mac.

None of the Windows programs I have on my PC would open more than the first page. As I said, the rest of the pages were photos from my file. Perhaps I should be clearer and say none of the programs opened it properly.

[Rick]

@AHunter3

I have a similar gripe about folks who think Word is for everything and therefore send all screen shots and other graphic images as otherwise empty Word documents into which a copied graphic has been pasted.

I have done this on purpose. We had a new program that did not work. The vendor claimed we were not seeing what we were seeing.
So open a Word doc.
Paste screen shot. Add circles, arrows and a paragraph about it.
Lather rinse repeat with 3 to 5 more screen shots to make my point.
Email fucking huge file to vendor and my boss.
Wait for the phone to ring and hear the words “You are correct, there is a problem”

[Little_Nemo]

You’re putting words on a page. As far as I’m concerned, WordPad’s all you ever need.

[bdgr]

@Little Nemo

You’re putting words on a page. As far as I’m concerned, WordPad’s all you ever need.

Wordpad? Why not just use a clay tablet and a pointy stick. Sheesh, we’re not cave people.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@kittenblue

None of the Windows programs I have on my PC would open more than the first page. As I said, the rest of the pages were photos from my file. Perhaps I should be clearer and say none of the programs opened it properly.

Ah.

there’s a tiny “down arrow” icon at the bottom of the Fax Viewer page which will let you manally select the page you want to look at via a drop-down menu.

Or you can print the whole thing.

[kittenblue]

I tried to print the whole thing. I got one page. I’ll check later on the exact name of the program that tried to open it, and all the other one’s we tried…

[minor7flat5]

@Little Nemo

You’re putting words on a page. As far as I’m concerned, WordPad’s all you ever need.

vi

I always install the console version of vim on Windows machines and it works great!

[iamthewalrus_3]

@AHunter3

I have a similar gripe about folks who think Word is for everything and therefore send all screen shots and other graphic images as otherwise empty Word documents into which a copied graphic has been pasted.

A few offices over, in the support area, there is a proudly displayed printout of the file a customer sent when asked to send us a text file he was using.

He sent an email with an attached word document. Inside the word document were 4 or 5 screenshots of the text file in question open in Microsoft Word, scrolled so that each page had its own screenshot.

And that guy is a software developer.

[teela_brown]

One of our biggest clients has not gotten the word, apparently, that nowadays e-mail can handle attachments without zipping the attachments. They send every. single. document. pdf’d and zipped. That means that if their e-mail has ten attachments, I must go into every single one and unzip it so I can print it. I can see their concern if they were sending us a 500-page manual, but most of these documents are but one or two pages long. I’ve asked permission to edumacate them, but my boss has said no, because this is a big-time client and we mustn’t offend then. Pisses me off and wastes my time.

ETA: and the client is a big fat tech corporation in Silicon Valley. They should know better.