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Claudia vs. The PDF of Doom: An Epic battle

Holy freaking Adobe goblins, I just spent nine hours trying to create a single PDF out of 34 textbook chapters.

NINE HOURS.

That’s FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY MINUTES.

PDFs DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

Yes, I admit the final document was going to be huge; 34 chapters do not lend themselves to a dinky complete textbook. But still…Adobe Pro (usually) makes it easy to merge a bunch of PDFs into one 743-page-long conglomeration, especially when said PDFs are 34 pre-tagged, page-numbered, ready-to-be-bookmarked chapters. It should not have taken me an average of 44 seconds per page here, people.

Haha, sorry. I seriously did just spend nine hours on something that should have taken me at most an hour, maybe an hour and a half. Needed to vent.

Plus there’s nothing of interest going on today. As usual.

Ooh, but I am gathering data for the big blog analyses that are coming for next Tuesday. Be prepared!