How I wasted two hours tonight
May. 20th, 2007 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuI spent nearly two hours tonight trying to figure out why the monochromatic (but not black+white) images, which appeared in the correct colors onscreen in Acrobat Reader, wuld print as black+white while the text around them was correctly colored. Finally remembered the "Print Page as Image" checkbox under "Advanced Settings" --- or, as I like to call it, the "Don't Be Buggy" mode. D'oh!
Then I struggled with why the pages were scaling down, which not only made some page elements unreadable but also made the recto and verso text blocks not line up. Finally realized after another half hour of frustrating experiments that when I enable the duplexer on my new printer, it defaults to adjusting the margins to allow room for the duplexer to do its thing. So even though Reader was set to print at 100%, the print driver was scaling the pages down. This was unnecessary, since I'd left sufficient margins. I eventually found that hidden checkbox in the printer driver.
So now, 2:30 later than I'd planned, I have a printed and folded text block. I had planned to punch the holes tonight as well and maybe even start sewing it together.... I still hope to have "prototype 2" ready for use by Tuesday night.
I think I'm ready for yesterday's Byron Walden puzzle --- that should be easy and relaxing by comparison!
Then I struggled with why the pages were scaling down, which not only made some page elements unreadable but also made the recto and verso text blocks not line up. Finally realized after another half hour of frustrating experiments that when I enable the duplexer on my new printer, it defaults to adjusting the margins to allow room for the duplexer to do its thing. So even though Reader was set to print at 100%, the print driver was scaling the pages down. This was unnecessary, since I'd left sufficient margins. I eventually found that hidden checkbox in the printer driver.
So now, 2:30 later than I'd planned, I have a printed and folded text block. I had planned to punch the holes tonight as well and maybe even start sewing it together.... I still hope to have "prototype 2" ready for use by Tuesday night.
I think I'm ready for yesterday's Byron Walden puzzle --- that should be easy and relaxing by comparison!