How I wasted two hours tonight

[rhu]

I 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!

Comments

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

I think I'm ready for yesterday's Byron Walden puzzle --- that should be easy and relaxing by comparison!

Pardon me while I chuckle modestly in your direction

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, I've seen the number of people blogging about this puzzle (obviously, I haven't clicked through to any spoilers yet) --- and I still think it'll be easier and more relaxing than the 150 minutes that I spent debugging the print process!