Turn a Mac into a Typewriter
I just got back from the Post Office where I mailed off an application to one of the ALA awards.
I’m still in a twist over their submission guidelines. Not only do they insist on paper applications through snail mail - and ten copies at that - but they only provide an un-editable .pdf file of the application. For those of you under 35, this means that I have to find something called a typewriter to fill out the application. And for those of you over, I’ll let you know that the handwriting instruction just wasn’t up to snuff by the time I came along to school. The idea of submitting a hand-written anything to anyone makes me cringe.
Well, I worked my way around that little conundrum, let me tell you.
I grabbed a screen shot of the .pdf Then I inserted the image into a Word doc as a watermark. Heh, heh. It took a little tweaking, but I got the words to line up with the blank spaces just well enough to pass muster.
Tricky enough to deserve an award, don’t you think?
A great reason to invest in a copy of the full version of Adobe Acrobat. Then you can use the text edit tool to type or you can just add text boxes. Unfortunately, it has a $150 price tag for acadmic
VERY nice hack on the “free” workaround though!
26 Jan 2007 at 9:25 am