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#pants are too short

    31-Jan-95 21:16:44
Sb: #pants are too short
Fm: michael poly 71604,332
To: martin foster
martin, i've located the x-crossed palm trees, i've walked twelve paces in the direction of the setting sun, i've dug down exactly five feet, three inches, i've found the brass spangled oak chest, and i'm seated in front of the treasure with only one thing missing…..the key! how, beside trial and error and two thousand microadjustments to u and v offsets and scales do you manage to get the "letter opacity maps" to fit EXACTLY into the holes? i spent the entire morning sliding a wee bit to the left, and then to the right, and then a tad wider, then down, then narrower, then, then, then…..thinking all the while, "boy, i bet martin has some little trick that does this in about two seconds flat and wouldn't he just be laughing himself silly to watch this oafish attempt to thread the needle. well? is there a simpler way to do this other than trial(s) and error(s)? with baited breath, michael