.... is like wearing someone else's clothes.

I wound up in this situation, which I hope never to have to deal with again.

1. The client is a professor. I previously worked in that department as a designer, but I retired and now work freelance with the same department.

2. Another person--who previously worked in the same design office as I and *who wasn't a designer but had been conscripted by a higher-up into doing low-end layout work* when the budget-cutting ax was chopping away at my former office--had moved into a clerical role that supported the client-professor.

3. I use IDCS4 and the other designer/support staff person uses IDCS3, but fortunately both on Macs.

4. She and I are old, good friends, but she isn't the design, software, and font wonk that I am.

5. The faculty-author wanted me to do the main design and layout, but then wanted my friend to make the little changes. That, of course, necessitated my saving backwards into an .inx file, she had to load the fonts, got snarled up with FontBook, etc.

6. Then the author wanted to move the 15 or 20 pie charts and tables around, making a much junkier layout. And she also mentioned that she thought there was "too much white space" that was not being put to good use. IKYN. And Gina (designer-friend) made the changes.

7. And the author then showed it a colleague who wanted to double-check everything, and then they wanted to move the labels of the bar charts from beside the bar to within the bar. (They were 100-percent stacked bars.)

8. Oh yes, this was started the week before Thanksgiving and they wanted delivered documents by Christmas week. The project consisted of two 24-28 pp booklets and two 8-pp executive summaries. OF which, only one pair was ready at Thanksgiving. And then they moved the delivery date to the first week in January. Then the second week.

9. Then they deleted some footnotes (8-10 in a list of about 25), which Gina originally did. But I later worked behind her on the same file and somehow worked from the wrong version!

10. They discovered it from reading the PDF proof, and they notified me ..... the day the printed booklets were delivered. After deliberating a few days, they decided to reprint the booklet, and while they were at it, they changed text on the back cover (deleted two commas setting off an appositive -- incorrectly, but I wasn't going to tell them).

I've been reading up on criminal penalties for various offenses under the North Carolina statutes, which might come into play.
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