[jaystraw]

20 years ago, I worked as the plate person at a newspaper: we had two million dollar kodak plate "printers" -- printer is the wrong word, but the emulsion on the plates could be hit by UV light and dissolved in a chemical bath iirc. Regularly, the kodaks would fail, and my boss would go into the postscript (or maybe eps) files manually, change a header or some other malformed bit that came from the layout software that sent us the files, and all would be well again (our giant German offset web press ran linux, btw)

I think his name was Bill. He took me, a 17 year old, to a Sigur Ros concert. Great dude. Wow two stories that don't involve pdfs!