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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/CEO_Of_Rejection_99 on 2024-10-14 20:10:06+00:00.

Don’t worry, no hard feelings were caused.

Context. For a previous assignment I had to research a topic, so I made an 11-page document (I admit it did have a lot of extraneous info though). I didn’t want to print it so I emailed it to my friend to present it on her iPad.

When I presented my submission, the professor was confused, so he wanted all of us to redo the assignment, this time only one page.

So I had an idea. I simply exported a PDF of my original document with all 11 pages on a single sheet (with the feature in Adobe Acrobat where you can print multiple pages on one sheet) that I called my prank file. Don’t worry, I also made a legitimate submission that was shortened to two pages (the professor was OK with it). I emailed both files to my friend, then instructed her to open my prank submission first, then right as the professor becomes disappointed in my work to pull up my actual submission next.

Today I go to class and I eagerly await as I see my friend open the prank file and show it to my professor. We all laughed and he commented on how tiny the text was. Then she opened my actual submission and I presented that work. He congratulated me on completing the assignment. What a day.

TL;DR: Professor asked me to redo my assignment and shorten an 11-page document to one page, so I printed all 11 pages on one sheet in a PDF and presented it to my professor. Then I presented my actual submission.

EDIT: The professor did not specify the 1 page requirement and other things he wanted us to research until the retake. There are only two other students in the class; one was a piece of paper with both sides printed and the other was a 6 page long PDF file. Professor was OK and happy with them both. Prior to the retake, other students also presented multi page long documents (one of which were 3 sheets of paper with both sides printed). I submitted a 2 page file because I felt it was impossible to shorten the paper down to one page without removing the more important info, plus our pages had to include pictures which took up a lot of page space. I figured that it would be the equivalent of printing both sides of one sheet of paper anyway.