[jskulski]

A company I worked at was in the business of classified ads in the early two thousands.

“We” started selling typeset ads at some point to customers unbeknownst to the tiny fresh grad three person tech team.

So we did what we had to do which was to run open office headless on a Linux box under our bosses desk.

It would accept type setting parameters, and we would simulate one key press at a time. We would send the print command keyboard shortcut and keys to print to a pdf and retrieve the files with rsync.

We didn’t know any better and I’m still proud of that.