Hearkening back to the days of yore in pursuit of the future.
Situation: Sample jury verdict document that needs updating to be posted online once the decision is in (with full acknowledgment of facsimile status).
Problem: No full version of Adobe Acrobat, and anyway, the original document didn’t have dynamic fields.
Possible solution: Take a screenshot and photoshop in text to fill out the fields.
Preferred solution: Typewriter, then rescan the documents.
I had to ask our editor’s administrative assistant to use her typewriter, one of two in the newsroom. There were several jokes made by people who remember newsrooms before computers. Fair enough.
