Erg

I'll take the Clone Wars dreams of infiltrating behind enemy lines in a group of Jedi, dealing with mind-controlling, telekinetic-using, and lightsaber-wielding Sith over the real frustrations of last night anyday...

It sucked bad enough when we had a print spooler process crippling one of our servers for no apparent reason. I did find some old print job files, but all indications are they were there for years, so I have no idea why they'd be causing trouble now.

Then it turned out we had some sort of corruption in a PDF ad on a page, causing the whole thing to fail to process for final output. It looked okay on the screen, but that wasn't good enough. What absolutely pissed me off about the situation, however, was that it was something I could have worked around in about two minutes (plus time to open programs) a year ago. With our current system, though, 1) I'm not fully familiar with InDesign and 2) I have to struggle with and work around all the mechanisms that make the regular, daily, everything-is-working routine easier.

Apparently there was a problem on Sunday, too, that I was almost called in to help with. Our connection to the remote server was down (at the other end), and none of our staff that does layout had any idea how to put things together locally. All the data is here, thanks to backup processes, but they lose all those bells and whistles that make things simple and have to use "raw" InDesign to put it all together - skills they basically don't have.

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