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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 9 points 5 days ago

I had a user come to me with a PDF issue my app was generating. They kept getting the document in landscape, and wanted it on portrait. They were the only user with this issue, and it stumped me. I checked the underlying code, and everything was set to portrait mode, except the last page, which contained a sketch and was set to landscape mode.

I asked him to show me exactly what he did when he made the PDF. Instead of just downloading the provided PDF, he had his system set to open it on Adobe Reader. He would then use a PDF printer (Microsoft, or cutePDF) to save the doc. His printer was set to landscape.

Now combine this ordeal with getting them to properly sign the damn thing.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (7 children)

depends

are they trying to export a PDF from Microsoft Word? because Microsoft makes that difficult nowadays

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's really not... There are several pretty straightforward ways to do it and they're all pretty old standards. Save as > select PDF as the file type. Or if you have Adobe Reader/Acrobat installed, word has a button right under save as that says Save As Adobe PDF. Or you can print to PDF using the Adobe print function in the printers. Lastly windows has a built in PDF printer by default. All of these work pretty damn reliably. If you can't save a PDF from a word doc, it's either your computer or you.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You're showing your privilege lol

When you save an office file to PDF and you are in a OneDrive environment, it doesn't save it locally - it saves it to the cloud, and then downloads it locally. it's fucked up

I'm not going to fault people for having trouble when the "save this file as PDF" option doesnt result in a PDF immediately in the save directory

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