AARGGHHHTHLLLLLLLFJlsfoiwerjsdfjower (short-circuiting)
That's what I heard one of my co-workers say today. (The subject line, not the short-circuiting
)
Read, and I will vent:
Scott, our CAD person who works on a PC has to send a drawing of
this machine* to a customer. He prints out a copy and walks over to me and my G3, and asks if I can get a readable digital file out of his drawing (PDF, JPEG). I ask him if he can get me a DXF file which I can then import to Illustrator and save as a PDF, slick as a whistle. So he goes back and checks it out.
As it turns out, he found a way to make an EXE file in which you can zoom in on the drawing and analyze the parts and whatnot. He walks over to our software engineer, Mike (also on a PC) and asks if he can open the file. He can. Scott then says "Ill see if Matt can open it", assuming that I can open EXE files or something. I heard Ed, our electrical engineer, sniff and say "You can't do anything on a Mac."
Scott walks over and asks me if I can read this EXE file. I'm sort of suprised at this, but I explain that I
can open EXE files that are really self-extracting zip archives, not the PC program thing. It's like asking if a PC user can read a Mac version of Photoshop.
Anyway, I just had to rant a little. I do find it a little ironic how the PC people sometimes run to me for computer advice and junk, but they scoff at the mention of "Macintosh".
*link posted because
I can!
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