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To: SkyPilot

Man, I am sweating more than Ashton Kutcher in a Mexican jail with a picture of the mayor's wife and a donkey.


167 posted on 09/11/2004 1:08:54 AM PDT by FredZarguna (TickTickTickTickTickTickTickTickTickTickTickTick...Time's Running out for Dan)
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To: FredZarguna

Not to worry. The second that Brit Hume said that they overlaid an MSWord version on it and found an exact match, I knew the jig was up. I've worked in printing and publishing (and still do, but a different aspect of it) and I've put in my time recreating old fonts with a lot of hours spent peering through magnifiers and using font programs (and then writing software to emulate the old typographic systems that originally produced documents with the old fonts). The fact is that fonts change from era to era: the character spacing *never, ever, ever* stays the same (well, now that we have computers, it finally might), but generaly they varied a lot, especially due to trademarks and competition, and also because no one ever cared to precisely reproduce spacing to such a tiny degree. The chance that the spacings would be exactly the same wasn't small, wasn't tiny, it was *identically zero*.

The jig is up.


169 posted on 09/11/2004 1:16:57 AM PDT by Windcatcher
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