Cleaning day
Saturday is cleaning day. Day for tying loose ends. Sort, toss, tidy.
The week has been about dealing with an intern as well as a pile of
due print jobs, a few still pending, needing to get done before monday morning.
I've also said yes to read and correct spelling and markup mistakes in blog
entries for a client, possibly providing him with graphics (already did the
creative part of that). The actual work might be postponed untill tomorrow,
but it's better to do it today, to take out stress of dealing with eventual
failures and mistakes. It's never fun to do that last minute before - or even
after the newsletter is sent out. Visit the blog [Vejviseren](http://byvandring.nu/vejviseren/]
this Byvandring.nu Monday at noon (in Danish).
I'd like to begin a new habit of backing up and updating my computer on Saturdays
today.
If I can squeeze it in, I would think it nice to spend some time in the garden,
it needs tending. But it's probably better to postpone that for tomorrow, or use those tasks
for a productive break from screen time. Compost, strawberry plants and the usual
removal of a hundred out of thousands of small trees.
Touching issues
Following a conversation with my partner about it, pointing towards CouchDesign,
here are some of the subjects I've been touching with my client work this week,
each somehow related to our pending's list:
- layered pdf with pdf inclusion
- color management (for press and for print)
- bar code generation
- process documentation
- archive structure
- key signing with caff
- design management
- licensing
- slippy maps
- scss
- vector drawing optimization
- documenting work, tracking
Demerits
I sent an advent calendar to the printers' shop without the date numbers.
I somehow tied the design of that part to the producer, subconsciously presuming
they came with the diecut drawing. I never even gave it a thought, and was
reminded by the client asking.
I struggled more, however, with dealing with a reported color failure on another
job. It's been a while since I've had issues with that, and it took me by surprise.
It was an office printer job. Jonas had yet another long read to deepen his already
rather extensive knowledge on color management and to brush up on what to take
into consideration. I've successfully taken care of it from his hints, and
now I/we are going to document what I did.
Documenting manifesto of today
Documenting a routine is not the same as improving it, even if it needs it.
Confronted with an unfinished or dormant project, issue or bug, it is not the
right time to deal with it. Simply document it.
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