This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Valerie, Thom and Brad-Philadelphia at least, are so taken by Apple's implied promise of "cheap type", that it becomes clear to them that once the _system_ is paid for, the type and layout and design and art will somehow just crank themselves out, unassisted. This sort of situation evolved when…
I yanked an interesting note out of ENS last night (wish I had saved it) wherein the Copyright Office has granted a copyright to Adobe Systems for their ITC Garamond software. Since I didn't keep a copy of the article (which appeared in a couple of forms in Reuters and…
#Compensation
Message #6228
All– An artist/client/friend of mine isn't comfortable with what his employer is paying him; his boss tells him that "since your job position is so new and unique, we don't know just what it's worth yet". Anyway, knowing I have access to this forum, he's asked me to poke around…
[Continued] I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm counting on professionals who consume graphics services to be at least as sharp as I am, and be able to recognize value when they see it. And that's exactly what'll keep us not only in business, but growing… It's…
Blaise (and Dave, and Jon and Steve et al)– Thanks again for letting me rant. The therapeutic value is indeed a very real thing… I agree completely with your assessment of the situation, and that customer education is a vital part of solving situations that can be aggravating at the…
Jon– Funny you should mention the ulcer–maybe I'll just buzz the drug company's communications people and have them send over a handful of the gazillion or so samples of Tagamet (their flagship product, BTW) they keep around for doctors. (hey, Jon, you can't fool me–you'll never trick me into telling…
[Continued] I don't know–perhaps I take it all too seriously. But it pains me–a lot–to see a technology that is supposed to release an individual's creativity and power of expression so abysmally abused. What looked good, and cost a total of about $1100 the first time around, looks horrible and…
[Continued] But the pull quotes were obviously keyed in PageMaker, because they contained double hyphens surrounded by word spaces. I could go on and on about absolutely atrocious rags, hyphenation that defied both English and algorithmic logic, widows, orphans, and so on. Worse, photo boxes drawn with four single rules–none…
Steve, and Bruce and Jon and everyone else who's been in on this thread– Though we've been having a bit of fun with people who can't find quotes and em dashes and such, I'm sitting here now feeling just a little bit sad and confused, and even a little distressed.…
Dave– Rather than getting the "lawyers to talk about this", perhaps we should *shoot* all the lawyers for creating this artificial situation to begin with. Then, perhaps, we could more reasonably address the issues of right and wrong, moral and immoral, ethical and not ethical. If not–well, hell, let's shoot…
Bruce– Hey, it's a good thing *my* boss can't get up here and see where all the brilliant stuff we feed him comes from! It would DEFINITELY ruin my reputation as a genius! –Bill
..not to mention APOSTROPHES! If I see one more prime mark where and apostrohe should be, I'm gonna xerox the page in the Mac owner's amnual that describes where the apostrophe is and start stapling it to some art directors' foreheads! –Bill
Mike– Nahhhhh, you don't have to sweep, especially if Tripp's coming along. Just push everything into semi-tidy piles and leave them lying all *over* the place. He'll probably think he's at his own office, and sit down and go right to work. Me, I'll probably throw everything out so that…
Carl– It's true that PS files become awfully large and unwieldy, but a quick, relatively low-tech method we often suggest to our customers is to a) use an archiving utility like StuffIt or ARC to compress the file; b) use your operating system's Backup utility (BACKUP.COM in DOS or HDBackup…
What you describe, Barry, doesn't sound so much like FEAR as it does common sense and professional pride. –Bill
Collier Instruments, P.O. Box 9442, Berkeley, CA 94709 (415/845-6389) has an ad in the 1st September issue of TypeWorld advertising L300 cassette *repair*, and new cassettes for other machines. Don't know if they'd know anything about new cassettes for an L300, but it might be worth a try. (I *knew*…
Scott– If I remember correctly (I'm at home right now), our entire collection of printer and screen fonts runs right around 25mb and some change…this is with all sizes installed in the screen font suitcases, and all suitcases compressed with Font & Sound Valet. Your calculation is on the money.…
#12930-
#Benguiat & good type
Message #12992
In other words, Jon, what you're saying is that a good typographer will take the functions of kerning, tracking, wordspacing, leading, and maybe half-a-dozen other factors, and make them invisible on the final output? So that they achieve their desired effect without calling attention to themselves? Yeah!!! One of my…