24 October, 2020

BILL AND TED'S MISERABLE ADVENTURE

See Bill.  Bill has written a book and designed the cover.  See Ted.  Ted is a printer.

See Bill upload the book and the cover and pay Ted to print a proof copy.

See Ted print the proof copy and send it to Bill.  Good job, Ted.

See Bill edit the proof copy and upload the finished version to Ted.  See Ted print 150 copies of the finished book.  Yay!

See Bill do this with more books.  Bill likes making books.  Ted likes printing them.

See Bill decide to fix one typo in the sixth word of the second sentence of the second paragraph on page 28 of his fifteenth book.  Bill doesn't want to print new copies, he just wants to fix one typo.  Bill fixes the typo and uploads the book to Ted.

See Ted say the cover is completely wrong and the page numbers must be fixed.  What is Ted talking about?

See Bill ask Ted what he's talking about.  Ted says the covers and page numbers must be fixed or the book cannot be printed.

See Bill look at the book.  The cover fits Ted's Print Previewer as it always has and the page numbers are exactly the same as they were before the typo was fixed.  See Bill tell Ted that there is no problem with the book.

See Ted disagree.  The cover and the page numbers must be fixed or the book cannot be printed.

See Bill ask Ted what the problem that must be fixed is because the problem does not appear on Bill's computer or Ted's Print Previewer.

See Ted not answer the question.  Ted tells Bill to fix the cover and page numbers or the book cannot be printed.

Bill is now confused.  See him ask Ted's Customer Service what the problems are that must be fixed.

See Ted's Customer Service not answer the question.  See Ted's Customer Service tell Bill he must fix the problems or Ted cannot print the book.

See Bill ask Ted's Community.com what the problem is.

See Community.com not answer the question either and tell Bill to obey Ted without question or the book that has already been printed 150 times plus a proof copy cannot be printed.

See Bill decide this is wasting time which could be better spent on making the next book.  See Bill work on the next book.

See Bill upload the next book and the cover and pay Ted to print a proof copy.

See Ted print the proof copy and send it to Bill.  Good job, Ted.

See Bill edit the proof copy and upload the finished version to Ted.  See Ted print 150 copies of the finished book.  Yay!

See Bill work on the book after that.  See Bill upload the book and the cover and pay Ted to print a proof copy.

See Bill edit the proof copy and upload the finished copy to Ted.

See Ted say the cover is completely wrong and the page numbers must be fixed.  See Bill look through Ted's Print Previewer and not see any problem with the cover or the page number.

See Bill remake the cover multiple times.  Ted keeps saying it needs to be fixed.  What was once grey text directly on a design of black, red, orange, yellow, white, and purple on the proof copy now has large white spaces surrounding black text.

See Ted say yet again that the cover needs to be fixed, as do the page numbers cited by Ted's Print Previewer which have not changed from the proof copy or any of the previous books.

See Ted's Customer Service tell Bill he must fix the problems or Ted cannot print the book.  See Ted's Community.com tell Bill the same thing.

See Bill.  Bill is not happy.  Bill cannot work on a new book until the last book is approved by Ted but Ted and his Print Previewer and his Customer Service and his Community.com are not helping Bill at all.  They can't even point to the problems they claim Bill must fix in his latest book.

Bill cannot see a problem with the book.  Bill can only see the cover and page numbers that were exactly like all the other books and proof copies which Ted printed with no problem.

Help Bill.  Don't be a Ted.  Or at least be like Ted was six months ago.

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