Formatting fun

Right so I've got to sort out some corrections on my thesis and send a corrected version back to my internal examiner so he can approve it before I finally submit my fully bound thesis to the university and officially get signed off for my degree. The corrections have been ok, I pretty much sorted them out in a few days, all the content ones that is. However, some of my graphs had yellow plots on them which are hard to see (I know, it was fine on the computer and I only realised how bad the problem was when I printed it out, its just that I have quite a few different plots on the same graph so was running out of colours). So I've got to replot a few of the graphs with a different colour and put them back into the thesis. The trouble is the formatting. I did all my work on my PC in uni and I wrote everything on it as well. My laptop which I have is a Mac, I really like it except the .emf graphs have a minor formatting error. The y-axis label has the word written vertiaclly along the axis but the letters are horizontal. So bottom line is it looks crap and you can't read it without staring at it for an hour. So I was going to use my dad's PC laptop do to the corrections, sorted. Or not. His laptop also has the same formatting error. I'm guessing its due to old software on his machine. But regardless, its not working. So bottom line is I have to not only redo the few graphs that needed to be replaced anyway, but I have to redo every graph in my thesis. I haven't counted them but there must be a hundred or more. Basically a lot. I suppose the only bonus is that I'll be able to .pdf my thesis so it will be more difficult to screw up printing it (I have a .pdf writter on my Mac but not on any PCs) plus it probably should have been written on my Mac from the beginning.

I suppose I could have done a few things differently to avoid this problem. I could have written my thesis on my Mac from day 1. I didn't because bringing the files back to a PC didn't work all the time so I stuck with the PC version because the Mac could always read it (except this formatting error with .emf files that I only realised later on). I could have stayed in England an extra week and got it sorted but I didn't know how many corrections I'd have and it would have doubled the price of my flight. If my examiners were sorted out earlier my viva might have been earlier, but that was out of my control. I could have submitted my thesis earlier, but that was difficult to do once it became obvious that I was going to get it done within a month or so of my deadline at the end of September and theere would have been no guarantee the viva would have been earlier. Or I could have stayed in Leeds until it was all finished and then thought about having some fun later. But I needed to book flights when they were cheap and bottom line was that I wanted to be home for Christmas. So I guess this is the price I'm paying for having christams at home for the first time since 1999.