Thursday, 14 March 2013

Creating a PDF document

For part two of the assignment we were asked to create PDF instructions for signup and contribution to our social space. I started by creating a dummy account on Facebook, mapping the signup process. I had to also had to use an old email for this purpose because Facebook does not allow the same email to be used for different accounts. Instead of choosing another program to create my PDF document I decided, and perhaps I shouldn't have, to use Word. I found that my version, word for mac 2011 operated very differently than previous word programs I had used and I found it very difficult to navigate and use the tools I needed. My screenshots were a jumbled mess and once I copied them onto the document, they rearranged, disappeared off the page and covered each other and would not be moved. Word had also crashed three times by this time and my patience was wearing thin ... 

A screenshot of my instructions in word

Eventually, with painstaking effort and repeated saves I managed to string the images into some sort of coherent order and write captions. The finished document looks pretty effective but I have resolved to never use word for this sort of purpose again and to find a more specified program in the future. Though word allows for easy conversion into PDF, it seems to be a program more suited to the creation of written text. The experience however, allowed me to develop problem solving skills when faced with a problem and I will do more research to see what programs are out there to use when i am faced with a task like this again. 


Below: a section of my finished PDF instructions


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