I'm using this new Linux box, which doesn't have acroread but it does
have evince. So I tried to open a PDF with it. Now, it was so helplessly
dysfunctional that I can't even make myself hate it. Help me with that
one while I wipe my tears.
It opened the document in a resolution too small to view. Ctrl-'+'
didn't seem to make anything bigger, but stuff slided to the left. After
some time I understood that the sliding was a side-effect of enlarging
/something/ - namely, the frame inside which the same tiny stuff was
rendered. Naturally, most of the enlarged frame was blank.
So I went to the zoom selection combo box. 100%, 200%, 400%. Same shit.
It renders the same thing all the time! Isn't that funny? I thought it
was. And then I noticed that the combo box had a cute button at the top
so you can scroll upwards and see the zoom values which just got
scrolled out. Even though the combo box had enough size to see all the
zoom values, and most of it was occupied by blank space. This reduced me
to tears.
And then I selected some text. I always loved how acroread used the term
"Text Selection Tool" to refer to this sophisticated functionality.
Anyway, what evince did was render the text again, with a scale and an
offset. So you saw tiny text at the background, and then you had blue
rectangles with thick black border and that same text on top. At this
point my laughter started to draw the attention of my co-workers.
How can someone ship this kind of shite escapes me.
P.S. Dear Thunderbird! I'm happy that you were fixed so that you
auto-save messages in the background, unlike, say, the old Mozilla
client. However, I'd really appreciate it if someone would figure out a
way to prevent your moronic polymorphic
"saving-a-draft-is-just-another-way-to-send-a-message" code from popping
up a dialog explaining me that hates-software doesn't have an encryption
key, so you can't send encrypted mail, so you can't save a draft,
either. Please let me type my frigging message. Thanks in advance.
