Future email contact with the superannuation fund will be done via Gmail in the web app form.
On Friday I downloaded forms from my superannuation fund to get more money out. These forms are PdFs with pre-filled sections & blank sections. I annotated the PDFs as required & emailed them. On Tuesday a reply email said the sections that were pre-filled & the ones I had completed were blank. So I did it all again, changing one page of seven to a scanned image.
A phone call this morning said that the first two pages were again blank, with page 3 (the scanned one being OK.
This is damned odd behaviour for Apple Mail on the Mac to do.
So I re-annotated pages 1 & 2, printed & scanned them back onto the Mac & added the new pages to the existing PDF after deleting the original first two pages. Then I compressed the PDF with an Automator workflow that's part of the PDF print services. The 7 page PDF went from 8 MB to 2 MB with no perceptible loss of definition: the embedded images were reduced in size/quality.
To be on tne safe side in case Mail decided to play up with the content again I zipped the PDF & attached it & the PDF to the email. Hopefully that will be OK.
@indigo Looks interesting, I wonder if it'll be a 3G model. Edge/2G is on the way out here.
Two handy workflows I have in my PDF Services folder in the main Library on my Mac failed, allegedly damaged or incomplete. One was Create Booklet, the other was compress PDF. Neither workflow were actually damaged or incomplete, Sierra just went on strike & refused to work with them, so I had to recreate them from scratch. The Booklet item I had added in the past from a free download, now it's a $15 download from the MAS. I wasn't going down that route so I internet-hunted until I found a copy of the original & installed it.
Compress PDF used to be an Automator action but it's now been removed. I had to use the "Compress Images in PDF" action, selecting jpeg & medium level compression. When tested, a 4.8 MB PDF dropped to 650 KB with no noticeable loss of quality.
Pig-ignorant dumb shits. Whilst perusing Apple News I stumbled upon an article showing how to reset a user's password on a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro running Sierra.
Stupid goathumpers! The process is identical for ANY Mac running Sierra.
@streakmachine They are a fine bunch. Just announced their 100th show, too.
// @matigo
Take one TwelveSouth Hi-Rise, one iPad Mini in a Logitech case, some PVC tape & a few Meccano bits, and voila! A stable bracket to stop the iPad wobbling.
@jmreekes Dear @HPSupport, this 'Laser Jet' you sold me can neither fly nor shoot lasers. If anything, I'd say it's more like a 'Printer'. Not happy.
One of my friends at the Men's Shed used to have a country property 17 km from the shed, it used to take him 18 minutes to cover that distance. He sold that place & built a new house in an urban area 42 km from the shed. His trip is only 10 minutes extra each way cos ⅔ of the trip is freeway and fast arterial roads.