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Originally Posted by arjaybe
It sounds as if, were you to tell them to print the PDF, then you'd have to show them how to do that, too. I'm actually surprised that they're able to open the PDF. Maybe it opens automatically. Did these people use a word processor to create in the first place?
Never mind. I have a friend who called his USB stick a JPEG. I guess it kind of resembles a peg, and you do push it in. Even in person it was really hard to explain it to him, and I was able to hold up a USB stick as a visual aid.
I do think that printing will be the best bet.
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I wish I could recall all the stuff we've heard, over the last decade. I kinda like your JPEG, though. I should have kept a list of everything.
Honestly, I now hold my breath, when I tell them to download a PDF from our Hightail Cloud storage. It used to be that I worried that they couldn't open an ePUB, or MOBI, b/c they didn't know to install a reader first, and then open it, yadda. NOW? Now I have to worry about PDFs? What bizarro-world universe have I fallen into?
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
OK....sorry hitch...this doesn't relate to your problem but it's in line with showing how un-edumacated people can be.
Unfortunately at my place of employment we are still stuck using 3.5" floppy discs (ikr!). When we showed one to a student their comment was...and this still kills me... "Oh, look, you 3-D printed the 'save' icon! "  |
You
what?
What? 3.5" floppies?
What? From 1986? Are you kidding me? You have 30+ y.o. computers?
But...WHY? Why on earth would they do that, Turt? Do you have to back those suckers up, or...? To other 3.5" floppies? (I mean..why not thumbdrives, if you need portability?)
Well, that boggles me more than my trivial issues, truly. (The 3D-printing comment is hilarious!). I mean...why? It's not like they're efficient, or in any way superior to the 9 bajillion other storage methods that came along in the three decades since...
Man, life is strange for those of us in this line of work, ain't it?
Back on the orig. topic, I'm actually considering an Explainer Video with cartoons. "You'll open this, and view it on your computer, while typing in the REAL interface..." I mean, how can it hurt, other than my wallet?
Hitch