Re: Try again, but research first

Post #173,553 by deSitter 9/10/04 1:27:49 PM Reply	Re: Try again, but research first Arkadiy has a point, he says he put the text into Word and got identical results. Now, my normal.dot has 10 pt TNR font and 1 1/4 inch margins (check - delete normal.dot and let Word recreate it...works). What about your? Take the text and type/paste it in your Word's "blank document". If you've modified your normal.dot, move it to a safe place and let Word create a new one with program defaults. -drl
Post #173,567 by Arkadiy 9/10/04 2:10:47 PM Reply	I don't have a point, but LGF does You saw two bitmaps superimposed. One comes from Word, another from an electro-mechanical device 30 years ago, through xerox and fax. What are the odds that the bitmaps will align the way they do? The letter shapes are same, the kerning is same, the line distance are same, word spacing is same. Unless someone can point a direct engineering path from IBM Selectic to Word kerning algorithms and Times New Roman font, I am convinced that's forgery. -- ... a reference to Presidente Arbusto. -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html\|Geoffrey K. Pullum]
Post #173,575 by deSitter 9/10/04 2:34:03 PM Reply	Re: I don't have a point, but LGF does I trust you - I don't trust Wers. -drl
Post #173,598 by Arkadiy 9/10/04 5:08:55 PM Reply	OK, I did what he did Our office closed early today so I figured, what the heck... Cut and pasted from his Word doc to my own, pasted as plain text, so I only had default formatting. Took a screenshot of Word doc. Took a screenshot of PDF memo from CBS site. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements, reduced the Word screenshot to red outline. Overlayed the red outline over the PDF screenshot. Positioned and stretched until I achieved the following result: [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/pub/Main/OpenForum/bushMemo.gif\|http://twiki.iwethey...orum/bushMemo.gif] (Whoever maintains tWiki - I screwwd up and saved a 700K .psd file of the same thing. I don't know how to remove it. Could you do that?) -- ... a reference to Presidente Arbusto. -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html\|Geoffrey K. Pullum]
Post #173,602 by deSitter 9/10/04 5:43:56 PM Reply	Nice! I'd say that was conclusive. Now to find out the history of these documents. Note that you DO have to reset the margins and switch to 12 point type - nevertheless... Good work. -drl

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