Alan Quatermain

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One of the complaints in Wilcox’s piece is how do you print from iWork? Who needs to print? … 1997 called and it wants its ink cartridges back.

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People forget that the reason Xerox never did anything with all their user interface research because they didn’t want a ‘paperless office’ to impact their sales of paper-based devices and technology. But nevertheless, that’s the idea the GUI was created to fulfil: a paperless office. Wouldn’t it be great to actually have that, finally?

It’s gotta be better than the bank loan department we’ve been dealing with: they don’t know what to do with PDF files or scans, they insist we print stuff out & fax it. Which actually goes into a computer which generates a raster image to email to them. Which they then print out manually.

*sigh*

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