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[LutherC]

You don't post something on a thread like this to get a response, you do it to share or get it off your chest. Here's something that makes me sad: a very old tree in my neighborhood that was like a friend to me, my pets, and a number of kids has been cut down by a jackass who wanted to replace it with a mini-tennis court. I think there should be minimum standards of common sense to own property or something.

[ToonyMan]

I would be sad right now but I'm too busy to be sad.

Too busy to be happy too.  What is this.

[Truean]

Strangely I'm just sort of numb with stiff upper lip rather than sad about all of this, but:

1.) Clerk is not paying attention while I'm repeatedly doing her job for her, in front of her, in an effort to show her directly how. This would be that "experience" she wanted, because she will one day have to do this for a living.... Texting on her phone about the weekend? Not a priority now.... Does she realize how many people would kill for a job right now, including law students...? Why yes her daddy does pay the tuition in full and it shows....
2.) Operating on all cylinders with about 5 (3:30-8:30) hours of sleep from scanning/arranging 589 pages of evidence last night to file this morning. This is, again, clerk's job.  Larger firms have entire staffs that do nothing but document prep for larger suits, I don't. O well. Screw it, I might work something out to get an additional clerk that actually does something.
3.) After scanning/arranging documents from 9:00PM until about 3:30AM last night, and appearing in court this morning, client insists I am, "not really doing anything." Meh...?
4.) Boss seems to think there is an "easy and free" way to get Adobe PDF editor software (not the reader). Not touching this one....

O, and did I mention a neighbor has told me a different [fully employed and ok] neighbor is stealing my newspaper? Fabulous.... Am I gonna have to engage in wacky hi jinx a la string, camera and striking out a deal with paperboy to tie in string to camera or some equally BS thing? Actually that sounds complicated and stupid, I could just wake up early, camp out behind the door and open it mid paper-swipe.... Meh.

[Urist Imiknorris]

4.) Boss seems to think there is an "easy and free" way to get Adobe PDF editor software (not the reader). Not touching this one....

But there probably is. It's just not legal.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Blegh.. Losing weight again.

[Truean]

4.) Boss seems to think there is an "easy and free" way to get Adobe PDF editor software (not the reader). Not touching this one....

But there probably is. It's just not legal.

Exactly.

[Nadaka]

4.) Boss seems to think there is an "easy and free" way to get Adobe PDF editor software (not the reader). Not touching this one....

But there probably is. It's just not legal.

Exactly.

Easy and free? I believe that both office and open office have either built in or plugins that support exporting documents to pdf.

[RedKing]

4.) Boss seems to think there is an "easy and free" way to get Adobe PDF editor software (not the reader). Not touching this one....

But there probably is. It's just not legal.

Exactly.

Try PDFCreator. It's an open source equivalent of Acrobat. Works great for me.

[Truean]

4.) Boss seems to think there is an "easy and free" way to get Adobe PDF editor software (not the reader). Not touching this one....

But there probably is. It's just not legal.

Exactly.

Easy and free? I believe that both office and open office have either built in or plugins that support exporting documents to pdf.

O, Microsoft word can save something as a PDF. That's not the issue. Rather, we're talking opening up a PDF (court form), filling in tons of blanks and then saving all the changes in it as a PDF... So, unless you can open, edit, and save a PDF as a word document (or otherwise edit it) and then make it a PDF again, I dunno.

Edit/Semi Ninja'd:

Try PDFCreator. It's an open source equivalent of Acrobat. Works great for me.

Yeah, but can I do the stuff I just said above about editing existing PDFs?
I do appreciate the effort in any case though.

[TheBronzePickle]

There might be a way to convert PDF's back to editable text files, not sure.

If there isn't, and your boss does do something irrational, then don't nag him about it, just make sure that he has someone else to blame when he inevitably gets busted.

[Virex]

A quick search reveals this, an on-line service for editing PDFs. I havn't tried it yet, so I can't vouch for it's usefulness though. Alternatively, if you only need to fill out single-page forms, Inkscape can import and export individual pages of a PDF document, though again it appears to have limits (it might botch up gradients for example)

[jc6036]

Foxit readers main PDF reader has some editing capabilities, and its free.

[Urist Imiknorris]

There might be a way to convert PDF's back to editable text files, not sure.

If there isn't, and your boss does do something irrational, then don't nag him about it, just make sure that he has someone else to blame when he inevitably gets busted.

And make extra sure that someone isn't you.

[ChairmanPoo]

How about copypasting the pdf into word or somesuch?

[Pnx]

There might be a way to convert PDF's back to editable text files, not sure.

If there isn't, and your boss does do something irrational, then don't nag him about it, just make sure that he has someone else to blame when he inevitably gets busted.

And make extra sure that someone isn't you.

I think what he was trying to say was, "Make sure he doesn't blame you."