EZPZ FileQuestions that come up when you work with files and documents. Less about which button to press, more about how to decide.
You convert a PDF to Word and the table comes out crooked. You assume the converter is bad, try another one, and get much the same. Some problems do not go away by changing tools.
AshtonKeep reading →Somebody sends you a photo and you want to know where it came from. Before you start studying the background, there is something quicker to do: read what the photo wrote down about itself.
AshtonKeep reading →I asked an agent to merge two PDFs and drop one page. Nine minutes later it was still hunting for a library, installing it, writing a script and rendering the output to check. By hand it is a thirty second job.
AshtonKeep reading →A Korean partner sends you a .hwp file. Your machine has no idea what it is, and the sender has no idea why that is a problem. Someone has to turn it into a PDF, and you do not have Hancom Office.
AshtonKeep reading →A photo in a marketplace listing can hand over your home address. Not because of anything in the picture, but because the GPS coordinates travelled inside the file.
AshtonKeep reading →A passport or exam form wants a plain white background, and your photo was taken against a cream wall at home. Here is how to make the background white without sending the photo to anyone, which photos work, and when an edited background can get a form rejected.
AshtonKeep reading →You export a student or customer list as CSV, open it again, and every Hindi or Tamil name has become question marks or junk, and the ₹ sign has turned into symbols. The numbers are fine. Only the text broke.
AshtonKeep reading →Some pages of your scan came out sideways or upside down. Rotating in the viewer looks fine until you close it. Here is how to turn only the wrong pages and save it for good, before it goes to a portal or an email.
AshtonKeep reading →You add ten phone photos to a report or project file and the Word file or PDF reaches 60MB, too heavy for Gmail or a portal. On the page each photo is small, but inside the file they are still full size.
AshtonKeep reading →Your e-Aadhaar, bank statement or payslip opens with a password box. Here is where that password comes from, the official e-Aadhaar format, and when it makes sense to lock a PDF of your own.
AshtonKeep reading →You hit send and get "attachment too large". The file is 28 MB, Gmail's limit is 25 MB. You need to lose 3 MB and have no idea where they are.
AshtonKeep reading →You put a QR code on your business cards and printed a thousand of them. Six months later a client tells you it does not open. The code is fine; the destination is gone.
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