Re: hey, punks...

Post #180,914 by admin 10/25/04 3:25:10 PM Reply	Re: hey, punks... I didn't realize typesetting was your job. Rather like being a tax advisor, from over here, but that's just an opinion... ;-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #180,915 by rcareaga 10/25/04 3:46:52 PM Reply	not just a job: a way of life I take the work product of colleagues (these days mainly from higher up the food chain; occasionally from below if there's a slack period) and run it through (A) my own design sense, which, although without the benefit of formal training, is by dint of sedulous study over the years pretty sound if a tad conservative, and (B) my trusy Macintosh (actually, of course, the employer's trusty Macintosh, but I am its sole keeper and companion). When I am finished with it the work product invariably looks incomparably better—not that the bar is terribly high! Early on my original boss, now retired, was sent by the employer to Japan for a month, and they expected a detailed report upon his return. He came to my office with a typescript and a floppy and said "In my experience the slicker the presentation is, the less closely it's scrutinized." He paused. "I need this to look very, very slick." Of course, in those days (1988? 89?) the few other laser printers in the organization output Courier, period, so a LaserWriter IINT, a copy of PageMaker, a modest font library and I between us were capable, in the primitives' eyes, of some very impressive White Man's juju—hell, the boss and I probably inspired a couple of cargo cults back then... nostalgically, Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil?
Post #180,918 by admin 10/25/04 3:53:18 PM Reply	All of that... ... and you couldn't make Dan Rather's expose look better...? Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #180,919 by admin 10/25/04 4:02:04 PM Reply	Additionally: That's what passes for a war story amongst typesetters, I take it... I was expecting at the least something along the lines of, "and in retrospect, had we not found the perfect 10 point sans font for the call to arms in those leaflets, the Japanese would have taken San Francisco," or the like... Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #180,921 by drewk 10/25/04 4:05:59 PM Reply	Now that's just begging ... okay, 'ICLRPD^2' (new thread) Created as new thread #180920 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=180920\|Now that's just begging ... okay, 'ICLRPD^2'] === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #180,923 by ben_tilly 10/25/04 4:16:54 PM Reply	ICLRPD In my experience the slicker the presentation is, the less closely it's scrutinized. I need this to look very, very slick. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

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