The Upside-down print

A user complains to me that her faxes are all arriving upside down. (The user gets inbound faxes in her Outlook inbox as a .pdf attachment.)

Well, 'all' turns out to be exactly two and both from the same sender. I explained that the 'system' didn't read and could not automatically flip it over for her if the sender is putting the pages in their device that way. 'System' being the amorphous concept du jour. Tomorrow we are going to talk about 'Flux Capacitors'. Tomorrow is also the day my lotto numbers will finally hit. God (if He exists) knows I've been waiting patiently for that to happen.

So then I show her that Adobe acrobat reader will allow her to rotate the image on her screen with just an ever so easy click right there. Now you can stop craning your neck and trying to read it upside down. You'll probably hurt yourself and sue the company. And win. That or we'd have to hire someone to flip your monitor upside down for you at a moments notice. And that would be it for my holiday bonus. So if you don't mind sit up straight and click where the nice geek told you.

So then she says (with an air of ah-hah I have you now geek boy) 'That's fine for on the screen but what if I need to print it out!' Egads! It's hopeless. How ever will I solve this problem for her. I feign much consternation, hand-wringing, etc. After a few moments where I seem about to give up I procliam 'Eureeka!' Yes I actually said that. 'If you don't want anyone to know it's an upside-down print (and here I lean in towards her conspiratorially) rotate the paper 180 degrees on your desktop!' 'I won't tell anyone!'

Also don't buy any shoes with laces. Go for velcro or slip ons. Those strings can be tricky.