{"id":869,"date":"2007-03-09T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/f71f458f32fad5688355f2387995df8f"},"modified":"2007-03-09T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:44:44","slug":"how-long-is-too-long-to-wait-for-a-bug-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"How long is too long to wait for a bug fix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I'm loving the new printer that I have, but with the very first test I did I found a problem that almost made me think the printer (or the driver) were faulty. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, it turns out that the problem is with Acrobat when you print double-sided. The first page comes out fine, but the last page (or in some cases all subsequent pages) come out as a mirror image of the real page, basically only making it useful for Alice through the looking glass or espionage. <\/p>\n<p>The problem only seems to affect Intel Macs (from a programming perspective), is probably related to the endianess difference between PPC and Intel platforms, and seems to affect a wide range of printers. Just check the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobeforums.com\/cgi-bin\/webx?14@@.3bc2fb83\/3\">Adobe Forums<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=bFBzyV\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=bFBzyV\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/100582607\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I&#8217;m loving the new printer that I have, but with the very first test I did I found a problem that almost made me think the printer (or the driver) were faulty. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, it turns out that the problem is with Acrobat when you print double-sided. The first page comes out fine, but the last page (or in some cases all subsequent pages) come out as a mirror image of the real page, basically only making it useful for Alice through the looking glass or espionage. <\/p>\n<p>The problem only seems to affect Intel Macs (from a programming perspective), is probably related to the endianess difference between PPC and Intel platforms, and seems to affect a wide range of printers. Just check the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobeforums.com\/cgi-bin\/webx?14@@.3bc2fb83\/3\">Adobe Forums<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=bFBzyV\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=bFBzyV\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/100582607\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}