Want to work with .docx files written in English from someone who lives in a country whose main language isn't English? Better enjoy all your English words being marked as mispelt because fuck you.
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Or maybe it's they were too stupid/lazy to Select All and set the text language to English? Even so, you can do that at any time as well.
The specific files are generated automatically through some process based on a template, so I think they'd need to fix it there. I don't really deal with them myself, just remember seeing a coworker struggle with one.
Want to make the header or footer on this page unique? Eat a bag of dicks.
Want to add a letter to an item in a table without fucking up the formatting of every document ever created across known time and space? Guck you.
Spell checking for this comment coming to you from Microsoft
I use SwiftKey - so that's legitimately true.
Y'know, you can turn off auto correction. It's the first thing I do with any keyboard on any smartphone.
I'm a Microsoft user. I don't want solutions - I want to bitch about stuff.
WYSIWYG editors are often the worst thing to ever exist. (See: Dreamweaver) I don't know how Word has managed to stay alive for so long.
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Libre Office isn't just a usable substitute for Word and the rest of Office. It is downright superior -- it being free and open source need not even be in the equation. I tried to use Word on my partner's laptop the other day and all I could think was "what is this crap??".
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Because nobody got ever fired for choosing Microsoft. It's like that with a lot of stuff. It's the default choice because everybody else uses it, good or not. Almost nobody is going to stick their neck outs to chose something differently.
The business world in a nutshell, borrowed from Dead Poets Society: https://youtu.be/nJ_htuCMCqM
Tbf, most Microsoft software sucks. Everything they touch gets sticky and moldy, like SwiftKey and Skype.
Get this Excel slander out of here.
Word 5.1a for Macintosh is still peak word processing.
Did you ever try typing "I want to kill Bill Gates," highlighting it, and checking for suggested corrections, in which it would list "I'll drink to that."
Back when computers couldn't possibly have gotten more advanced
I have fond memories of ClarisWorks 4.
You can edit PDFs on libre?
How is pdf the standard also?
It’s got way too many features like 3d rendering. It’s proprietary. Simple things like copy and paste from a paper with columns does not work and is basically an unsolved AI problem.
Like, it mostly renders the same, but fonts, OCR, etc are different between viewers, and the official Adobe reader/acrobat are totally enshittified with AI that they don’t work anymore.
Have you ever tried to look under the hood and interact with a pdf programmatically? I assure you it only gets worse.
A while ago I tried to write a small script to scrape data out of some account statements that my idiot bank only made available in pdf format. As far as I could tell, the file was just a list of tiny chunks of text along with sets of x/y coordinates specifying where each one should be placed on the page. Answering seemingly simple questions like "are these two words on the same line?" Involved comparing raw y-coordinates because the file had no concept of a "line of text", and even spaces between words were often simulated by bumping the x-coordinate over by a few pixels instead of using an actual space character.
I suspect those files were generated by a particularly bad piece of software, and a more competent one could probably do much better, but knowing that its even possible to create a file that cursed is still infuriating to me.
Yeah, don't try to hand-parse a raw PDF. You're better off rendering it and running OCR on the image in most cases. Only exception I know of is if you generated it with LaTeX.
Probably Crystal Reports. It's cursed.
Yes, I have looked at evil and I have not been back.
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At least you can play doom in a pdf.
Huh, GitHub is down.
Been working on local stuff all morning.
Now just need to connect it to a Samsung Smart fridge.
Also, the entire web stack, the entire history of email, Javascript - the horrors of the universe just happen
I hate how it deals with lines in chart grids where it looks like different lines are bolded depending on your zoom level
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You can edit pdf in firefox lol
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