Always Never
I did it - I got through the week with my sanity. Just.
The past four days (we get tomorrow off), have been hell, and as a result, I have a lot of things to complain about. First and foremost though, this:
Corel Draw is utterly, utterly shit.
If you haven’t heard of Corel Draw, it’s supposed to be an ‘industry leading’, ‘easy to use’ graphics program. Bollocks. Never in my life have I come across such a fussy, annoying and generally fucked-up program as this. From little things like the page flying miles out of view when you scroll with the scrollbar, to big things like it not displaying colours correctly. Really, would you use a piece of software that has a warning on it that the colours it displays ‘might not match PANTONE [http://www.pantone.com] identified standards’? No, I didn’t think so. So why then, am I forced to use it for my GCSE graphics coursework?
If you’re hungering for more reasons as to why it simply epitomises shite, then here’s a few for you.
Firstly, you have to play a game of electronic roulette when you try and start it – sometimes it freezes, other times it says ‘product installation unsuccessful’. When (if) it does start (that’s not necessarily a good thing, mind you), you’re presented with a seemingly user-friendly program. That is, of course, until you start to use it. You want to rotate something ninety degrees? No, you can’t have a keyboard shortcut; instead you have to open a panel on the right hand side, enter your value, and then hit ‘apply’.
Second, if you want to add a new layer, then you have to open the ‘object manager’ (which is a miserable attempt at a layer manager). Then, you have to right-click around randomly (or on a miniscule button in the right hand corner) until you get a context menu which offers you the option of adding a new layer. Obviously, if you want to hide or lock a single object, you have to give it its own layer, as you can only hide or lock layers, not individual objects.
For the third trip to the slaughterhouse, we’re going back to the colours. I’m being serious here, the red is orange, the blue is purple, and there’s some random colours thrown in for good measure, such as ‘storm blue’, which is a sort of brownish-purple. Oh dear.
Ok, imagine this: you’ve zoomed in close to make sure the line you’re drawing along the top of a rectangle is just right. You drag it along, and, as you scroll (at a ridiculously slow speed), the rectangle starts to duplicate itself. You let go, the picture goes back to normal, and you’ve moved about a millimetre.
Oh, and if you insert an autoshape, then go back and try to draw another one, it’ll reset to the default shape. Great.
Then there’re just some very, very random things. Like, the default nudge offset is 2.54mm, the maximum zoom level is 405651%, and when you import a picture, it’s physically impossible to view it without it being pixelated (though, of course, it prints just fine).
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I can get onto more interesting matters. (Note how I say interesting – I mean, of course, ‘other’).
Monday was… three days ago, and I can’t remember what happened.
The only part of Tuesday I can remember, is staying behind to do graphics. Likewise, the only part of Wednesday I can remember is missing lessons to do graphics, and then staying behind to do - you get the picture.
I stayed behind tonight as well, for two hours. And (halle-fuckin’-lujah) got it all done. Except the question cards, which I remembered I’d forgotten the moment I walked out of school. Oh well!
In graphic-unrelated news, I was told by my English teacher today that I got the highest coursework grades in the class. I probably shouldn’t have written that, but there you go.
Musically, my Manics obsession is steadily growing, with my acquisition of number of B-Sides (thanks Chloe!), and the God Save the Manics EP, which is frankly amazing. They’ve also given me the title for this entry, and I’ve changed my sig on black0ps to this:
“Conservatives say there ain't no black in the Union Jack
Democrats say there ain't enough white in the Stars and Stripes
And we say there's not enough black in the Union Jack
And we say there's too much white in the Stars and Stripes”
If that offends you, then you shouldn’t be reading this. Go away.
I also got my self a James Dean Bradfield avatar, and I already own a ‘Brain-dead motherfucker’ badge and a Lipstick Traces t-shirt, so now the only thing left to do is wait for them to overtake Placebo on last.fm. It won’t take long.
I’ve rambled long enough, so I’m going to go play GTA and try and take my mind off the fact that I’ve just remembered I have a maths paper to do on Monday. I find standing on a tram and firing heat-seeking missiles at people is quite a good way to alleviate stress.
Bastard school.
The past four days (we get tomorrow off), have been hell, and as a result, I have a lot of things to complain about. First and foremost though, this:
Corel Draw is utterly, utterly shit.
If you haven’t heard of Corel Draw, it’s supposed to be an ‘industry leading’, ‘easy to use’ graphics program. Bollocks. Never in my life have I come across such a fussy, annoying and generally fucked-up program as this. From little things like the page flying miles out of view when you scroll with the scrollbar, to big things like it not displaying colours correctly. Really, would you use a piece of software that has a warning on it that the colours it displays ‘might not match PANTONE [http://www.pantone.com] identified standards’? No, I didn’t think so. So why then, am I forced to use it for my GCSE graphics coursework?
If you’re hungering for more reasons as to why it simply epitomises shite, then here’s a few for you.
Firstly, you have to play a game of electronic roulette when you try and start it – sometimes it freezes, other times it says ‘product installation unsuccessful’. When (if) it does start (that’s not necessarily a good thing, mind you), you’re presented with a seemingly user-friendly program. That is, of course, until you start to use it. You want to rotate something ninety degrees? No, you can’t have a keyboard shortcut; instead you have to open a panel on the right hand side, enter your value, and then hit ‘apply’.
Second, if you want to add a new layer, then you have to open the ‘object manager’ (which is a miserable attempt at a layer manager). Then, you have to right-click around randomly (or on a miniscule button in the right hand corner) until you get a context menu which offers you the option of adding a new layer. Obviously, if you want to hide or lock a single object, you have to give it its own layer, as you can only hide or lock layers, not individual objects.
For the third trip to the slaughterhouse, we’re going back to the colours. I’m being serious here, the red is orange, the blue is purple, and there’s some random colours thrown in for good measure, such as ‘storm blue’, which is a sort of brownish-purple. Oh dear.
Ok, imagine this: you’ve zoomed in close to make sure the line you’re drawing along the top of a rectangle is just right. You drag it along, and, as you scroll (at a ridiculously slow speed), the rectangle starts to duplicate itself. You let go, the picture goes back to normal, and you’ve moved about a millimetre.
Oh, and if you insert an autoshape, then go back and try to draw another one, it’ll reset to the default shape. Great.
Then there’re just some very, very random things. Like, the default nudge offset is 2.54mm, the maximum zoom level is 405651%, and when you import a picture, it’s physically impossible to view it without it being pixelated (though, of course, it prints just fine).
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I can get onto more interesting matters. (Note how I say interesting – I mean, of course, ‘other’).
Monday was… three days ago, and I can’t remember what happened.
The only part of Tuesday I can remember, is staying behind to do graphics. Likewise, the only part of Wednesday I can remember is missing lessons to do graphics, and then staying behind to do - you get the picture.
I stayed behind tonight as well, for two hours. And (halle-fuckin’-lujah) got it all done. Except the question cards, which I remembered I’d forgotten the moment I walked out of school. Oh well!
In graphic-unrelated news, I was told by my English teacher today that I got the highest coursework grades in the class. I probably shouldn’t have written that, but there you go.
Musically, my Manics obsession is steadily growing, with my acquisition of number of B-Sides (thanks Chloe!), and the God Save the Manics EP, which is frankly amazing. They’ve also given me the title for this entry, and I’ve changed my sig on black0ps to this:
“Conservatives say there ain't no black in the Union Jack
Democrats say there ain't enough white in the Stars and Stripes
And we say there's not enough black in the Union Jack
And we say there's too much white in the Stars and Stripes”
If that offends you, then you shouldn’t be reading this. Go away.
I also got my self a James Dean Bradfield avatar, and I already own a ‘Brain-dead motherfucker’ badge and a Lipstick Traces t-shirt, so now the only thing left to do is wait for them to overtake Placebo on last.fm. It won’t take long.
I’ve rambled long enough, so I’m going to go play GTA and try and take my mind off the fact that I’ve just remembered I have a maths paper to do on Monday. I find standing on a tram and firing heat-seeking missiles at people is quite a good way to alleviate stress.
Bastard school.
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