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#DTP gone bad!

    21-Jan-90 03:51:45
Sb: #5598-#DTP gone bad!
Fm: Associated Graphics 76377,1406
To: Tripp Narup 76340,134
Tripp, Hear, hear (here, here?). I agree that DTP (Dirty-Toilet-Paper) has let a lot of sloppy people loose setting type who have absolutely no business doing so (and in some cases have made a business of doing so!!!). We run a service bureau and get the same 90% poorly done pages. Oh well–except when people think it is our equipment that is to blame for poorly composed pages (which is on my Top-Ten list of reasons to take up flipping burgers at Micky D's for a living). I would argue that the cut of a face is not nearly so important as the layout that face is found in. Somethings scream DTP at me cause I know it is an ugly Adobe face, but most stuff that screams DTP at me is because of the layout. I am also fairly nearsighted and therefore can't really see the finer points of a cut in the finer point sizes. Bruce/AGS