[supercat]

One of the most difficult things I ever had to do was to duplicate type with an electronic system.

Actually, there are some ways it can be done fairly easily, but not without an implausible amount of work. What is damning about these documents is not that they can be matched electronically, but that default settings will do so without having to "tweak" anything.

[TC Rider]

Actually, there are some ways it can be done fairly easily, but not without an implausible amount of work. What is damning about these documents is not that they can be matched electronically, but that default settings will do so without having to "tweak" anything.

Exactly!

[ProudVet77]

"One of the most difficult things I ever had to do was to duplicate type with an electronic system."

The poster is actually very correct. We/I installed a pair of Mergenthaler Linotype 606 phototypesetters at the NY Daily News in 1977. The 606 was absolute state of the art at the time. (It was used by National Geographic) Anyway, the machine was too good. The News had "brass masters" of the fonts they used. Over the decades the brass had worn a bit around the edges. They wanted us to duplicate the worn brass, as they were afraid it would change the "look" of the paper. Of course we couldn't do it as the wear on the brass was not the same for all characters. We would have had to redigitize entire fonts to make their typographers happy.