Yeah, now that it is pointed out it makes sense. But to someone not in the field, it was not intuitive until pointed out. It is not complicated, but also something that someone who is not an expert in the field can easily overlook. That is one of things about being an professional in the field. It is not just that you know obscure stuff, though you do. It is also that you know the field well enough not to overlook the obvious. Someone who is just trying to grasp a bunch of new stuff all at once can easily miss all sorts of obvious things. Which is another reason to hire a professional like you.
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Typo Boy - Oct 13, 2011 11:35:09 am PDT #695 of 1416
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ginger - Oct 13, 2011 1:47:31 pm PDT #696 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Years ago, it made more difference, because if you used the process colors to make things like headings, lines and boxes different colors, you had to supply separations and making four-color plates was a skilled job done by an actual person who spent most of his working life in the dark. Now a lot of that is done automagically by software.
Signed,
Has Proofed Lead Type Reading Backwards
amych - Oct 13, 2011 5:03:21 pm PDT #697 of 1416
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
ohgodseparations
Ginger - Oct 13, 2011 5:20:28 pm PDT #698 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Isn't technology wonderful?
amych - Oct 13, 2011 5:41:53 pm PDT #699 of 1416
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I love the thing where someone comes out with a big nostalgic blog post and/or evil experiment of teaching the childrens about how journalism used to be done back in the days of typewriters and lightboxes [link] , and everyone who ever did it gets all "OMG that takes me back" for about 10 seconds before someone says "... yeah, and it really sucked."
(I'll also note that I only did real old-skool layout in HS, and then did the weird in-between phase in college where we had computers for typesetting columns which we then still had to cut out and paste up. IOW, I inhaled just enough rubber cement for nostalgia and bitching at the kids who have never worked in print at all, and not remotely enough for cred.)
beekaytee - Oct 13, 2011 5:44:25 pm PDT #700 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
I love the thing where someone comes out with a big nostalgic blog post and/or evil experiment of teaching the childrens about how journalism used to be done back in the days of typewriters and lightboxes, and everyone who ever did it gets all "OMG that takes me back" for about 10 seconds before someone says "... yeah, and it really sucked."
Add waxers and border tape to that and you would be talking about me.
Sheesh. Glad those days are gone.
eta: OH, and rub on type. Lord, we thought we were so kewl.
Ginger - Oct 13, 2011 6:24:53 pm PDT #701 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Border tape has supernatural powers. I'd find pieces stuck to me after more than a week of showers. I think I had an orgasm the first time a drew a box in PageMaker.
I spent years of my life with part of my left forefinger and nail trimmed off by an X-acto knife from trimming copy and border tape.
Vortex - Oct 13, 2011 8:10:00 pm PDT #702 of 1416
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Regarding our earlier conversation -- Who Uses An AOL Email To Cast a Lawyer Reality Show?
I was particularly amused by:
[co-blogger] doesn’t share my disdain for AOL email addresses; he wonders whether they are “retro chic.”
beekaytee - Oct 14, 2011 5:12:15 am PDT #703 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
Border tape has supernatural powers. I'd find pieces stuck to me after more than a week of showers. I think I had an orgasm the first time a drew a box in PageMaker.
I spent years of my life with part of my left forefinger and nail trimmed off by an X-acto knife from trimming copy and border tape.
Ginger and I are living in parallel universes.
Toddson - Oct 14, 2011 5:23:17 am PDT #704 of 1416
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
and blue lines - do people remember blue lines? (I remember once we'd gotten a blue line of a new magazine and someone saw it and said they thought all the blue was kind of boring and hard to read ... and the paper was icky.)