What do people think with?
May. 4th, 2005 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpSo it turns out this PowerPoint presentation I'm working on is ginned up in some gawdawful Sunday-go-to-meeting formatting, which means we're talking about white letters on a black background (obviously at the instigation of the toner/ink cartridge lobby), with lots of graphics.
Actually, more graphics than I suspected. (Forty slides, 172 countable words.)
So, I decided not to print the thing out, seeing as how printing out even 20 pages of weak black (assuming I put 2 slides on a page and print in draft mode) is likely to put an unpleasant dent in the wheezingly low level of ink in my Epson's black cartridge.
When I got to slide three, the first "text intensive" slide, it turns out the text is a farblegargling graphic (meaning it's not really editable). In fact, it looks like most of the text in the presentation is embedded in farblegargling graphics (with a few text boxes mixed in), which takes my time estimate for completion and shoots it squarely between the eyes. It means any word lookups (and I do a lot of them, just to stay on the safe side) have to be typed instead of copied. It means having to type and format the text instead of just typing it. And finally, it means I pretty much have to print out the slides so I can see what I am working on.
Thank you Mr. Simonov, for creating such a hideous mess for the translator.
Time to get to it, I guess.
Cheers...
UPDATE (2:17 pm): The reference file helps save the day!
Actually, more graphics than I suspected. (Forty slides, 172 countable words.)
So, I decided not to print the thing out, seeing as how printing out even 20 pages of weak black (assuming I put 2 slides on a page and print in draft mode) is likely to put an unpleasant dent in the wheezingly low level of ink in my Epson's black cartridge.
When I got to slide three, the first "text intensive" slide, it turns out the text is a farblegargling graphic (meaning it's not really editable). In fact, it looks like most of the text in the presentation is embedded in farblegargling graphics (with a few text boxes mixed in), which takes my time estimate for completion and shoots it squarely between the eyes. It means any word lookups (and I do a lot of them, just to stay on the safe side) have to be typed instead of copied. It means having to type and format the text instead of just typing it. And finally, it means I pretty much have to print out the slides so I can see what I am working on.
Thank you Mr. Simonov, for creating such a hideous mess for the translator.
Time to get to it, I guess.
Cheers...
UPDATE (2:17 pm): The reference file helps save the day!
