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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 17:01:57 JST mhoye

   I wish more people in large orgs understood how much of a burden you put on somebody by sending them a PDF and asking them to fill it out and send it back. The software you are asking people to find and learn is absolutely some of the worst software in the world.

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     Martha Bridegam (mbridegam@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 17:03:49 JST Martha Bridegam

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     @mhoye

     And PDFs often need to be hand-signed. And, because facts never entirely fit forms, PDF forms need to be annotated in ways that take either extra unprovided software or handwritten notes. But a scary proportion of people now don't have home printers.

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     Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 17:04:03 JST Gabriel Pettier

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     @mhoye when they do, i will absolutely use gimp to do it, and paste my signature in it manually.

     Gimp is not great, but it is not the absolute worse, at least.

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     George Rawlinson (grawlinson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 17:04:33 JST George Rawlinson

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     @mhoye I had to file an insurance claim recently and had the displeasure of filling out a PDF form that didn’t make any sense at all. I ended up just adding text boxes everywhere. Got a reply from them a few minutes after I submitted it; “I can’t read any of this”. Oh, it’s my problem now? No thanks.