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Old 21st January 2011
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We are in a more or less similar situation. Back in 2001/2002 a couple of interns wrote a lot of software for the company. Without going into details, it is obvious that this software was written by *very* inexperienced people who didn't have a good idea how to do things on just about any level.

Anyway, part of this all is an ActiveX something that allos you to print on IE.
It's a pain to work with ... I'm told it was "needed" for IE6. But with IE8 everything prints fine even without this plugin.

Problem is the code is so ... obfuscated (Code w/o indentation, no documentation/comments at any level, variables called $stuff, very, VERY weird and clumsy constructs) ... That even changing simple things takes a lot of time, so I just leave it in since it "more or less works" and has more or less worked for almost 10 years ... Changing it would require a lot of time better spent on other things at the moment.
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