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Let's have a talk, shall we?

The term "camera-ready" is used when you bring me an ad that is completely and totally laid out and ready to drop into the space you've paid for in the newspaper. An ad on which you spent hours choosing a font, adding a crappy piece of clip art and finding the exact correct spacing... is not camera-ready if you expect me to lay it out again to fit the proper space. What it is is a pain in the ass. You want your 6"x4" ad to look exactly as you created it, but I'm supposed to fit that into a 1"x2" space. God forbid I don't have the font (I deleted comic sans from my machine my first day here) or crappy piece of clip art you used. I know you honestly believe that you are saving me time. If you could just take the few extra minutes it takes to use a ruler, this might be the case. As it is I'm left to plot your slow and painful demise. Now I'm a creative guy, but I've run out of options for giving you inflamed, pus-filled lesions in your genital area.