Flashes of Panic

When I was preparing to hand in (by email) my Theory problem set on Tuesday night, I was faced with a problem. I had diagrammed several finite automata (don’t worry about what they are, just remember that while they can be defined mathematically, it’s usually faster to draw them,) in OmniGraffle, but since OmniGraffle is lousy for text answers, I’d done those in Word. I had two documents to turn in. Here’s how I worked it:

• Make PDFs of both documents. On the Mac, that’s as simple as printing them.
• Use PDFLab to interleave the appropriate pages of the two PDFs in the appropriate order. Output: one hand-in-able PDF.
• Email the result.

This is great, useful software; if you use a Mac, take a look (and check the other applications on the same site.)