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To: Petronski

"It would look so much like the memos in this fraud that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It would take me hours to do it, but I could.
I'm sorry, I don't believe that."

I don't care if you believe it or not. I used to typeset a magazine with one of those IBM Executives. You have no idea what they can do.

That's not even the point. REad the whole message.


360 posted on 09/10/2004 1:59:17 PM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan

I'm not disputing your whole message, no reason to reread it. I am disputing the passage I quoted.

I'm saying that the Executive had a half-space bar for the width of an i and a space bar for the width of an n, making an i one unit wide, an n two units wide, an m three units wide, etc. Stop me here if I'm wrong.

True Type divides them up into much smaller slices, with much finer resolution, plus kerning. You might have been very good with the Executive, but you would not match what a modern word processor and laser printer do, such that one would not be able to tell the difference. No way.

I'd definitely like to see you try.


387 posted on 09/10/2004 2:05:27 PM PDT by Petronski (I'd like to volunteer to build a barn and take you press guys out behind it and kick your asses.)
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