[ctdonath2]

IT TYPED USING PROPORTIONAL SPACING!

We'll grant that.
What's disturbing is that two completely different printing/typesetting technologies used 30 years apart would give exactly the same results with minimal effort on the part of each user. That's exactly the same (allowing for pixellation by one faxing) spacing, kerning, character shapes, positioning of superscripts, line breaks, use/absence of hyphenation, absence of spelling errors, etc. I've fiddled with nuanced formatting for a couple decades, and there's no way these would match that perfectly with so little effort. Fake. Huge fake.

[Smogger]

What's disturbing is that two completely different printing/typesetting technologies used 30 years apart would give exactly the same results with minimal effort on the part of each user. That's exactly the same (allowing for pixellation by one faxing) spacing, kerning, character shapes, positioning of superscripts, line breaks, use/absence of hyphenation, absence of spelling errors, etc. I've fiddled with nuanced formatting for a couple decades, and there's no way these would match that perfectly with so little effort. Fake. Huge fake.

I agree 100%. There is just no way.

[CobaltBlue]

>>That's exactly the same (allowing for pixellation by one faxing) spacing, kerning, character shapes, positioning of superscripts, line breaks, use/absence of hyphenation, absence of spelling errors, etc.

Oh, good, someone who has been doing this recently.

I worked in printing from 1975-1983, when it was mostly metal type for little jobs and photoset type for big jobs.

The metal type never lined up perfectly unless you used a big machine like a Linotype. My mother set type using Linotype.

Then she switched to the photo-machines, which used litho paper that had to be developed and then fixed, felt greasy, smelled bad, and had a tendency to fade if the fix solution wasn't replenished often enough.

I did pasteup and camera.

Glad I got out of that business, computers would have thrown me out eventually anyway.

These memos are definitely 12 point Times New Roman using standard Word leading and margins.