We sent off a PDF the other day, got this reply today:

• Our size spec for a half-page ad is 1350 x 1016 pixels at 300 dpi.  The image you sent is 1350 x 1025 — 9 pixels too high.  Did you want to chop 9 pixels off the top/bottom or shall I?

 9 pixels too high WTF that's wrong in so many ways.

 islander wrote: 
 those bastards   we must  the faith or we'll be  trampled asunder by the  or tramps like  . . . . much appreciation for your commitment to  and   the ungrateful bastards (or bitches) that don't understand our generosity!

  

 islander wrote: 
Oldviolin strikes again.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Where there's a will there is a goofball who will maximize the doc, do a print screen and paste it into paint. He'll then complain that your doc had virus that messed up his print driver.

 starcloud wrote: 
same idea. There's a checkbox in the security settings that allows printing or not. Anything to keep it from actually getting onto press. Altho I haven't tested this to see if it will print if you place it on another page and print that page.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Another option is to password protect *everything except low res printing at which point the FLAGS will be raised when it gets to production! (is that what you meant?!?!?)

 Beaker wrote: 
... and an art director is born.
 
I have no advice for the future. Because some amount of that will always exist. But maybe the old trick of holding the thing up to a mirror and reading it backwards like that... it can make you look more closely at stuff like that.

 Beaker wrote: 
Is this the gig down at the Shithole Bar?
 
The cool thing about PDFs is —and I don't use this enough— you can make them non-printable. So if a job needs to proof, you don't have all the information etc etc you can put dummy text in and make it unprintable so people have to come back to you and say "wtf" and you'll go "oh, right, I had a question about the date... give me the correct info and I'll get you a new PDF."

Not sure that's what happened in your case but it's always tempting to fill a spot with dummy text that looks too much like the real thing, and then no one catches it because it's right under everyone's nose... 

This could also go in "things you thought today" as well as "annoying stuff..." but it has come to me, finally, that the only jobs anyone eats are the easy ones. If it's a little tricky at all, the customer signs off 9 times before it goes to press. If it's so simple it absolutely cannot be fucked up... oh yes it can!

 Proclivities wrote: 

Why bring ManNerd into this?

 starcloud wrote: 
HA!

Consider this response:

If you feel your the right person for the job please email me with the following. 

1. Your name and contact info
    Paul Rand Brooklyn, NY
2. At least two references of people you've done work for in the past and their contact info 
    IBM, UPS
3. Any links/ pictures of your own work 
    Look it up!
4. Salary Requirements 
    Out of your league, but it doesn't matter I'm out of this world, literally! 

 Manbird wrote: 
more like 900, sheez!!! I noticed he forgot to include a tear sheet in his requirements  

What is this guy, like 105 years old?

Artist Wanted for Logo Development (fremont / union city / newark)

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Date: 2010-07-03, 10:25AM PDT
Reply to: gigs-drycf-1824163256@craigslist.org ^{<Errors when replying to ads?>}

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