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From: uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Economist article on Ecotype typeface design
Message-ID: <1991Jun09.151311.5596@dircon.co.uk>
Date: 9 Jun 91 15:13:11 GMT
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jlister@slhisc.uucp (John Lister) writes:

>In article <4lsh!qd@rpi.edu> wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:
>>
>>The May 24-31 issue of The Economist has a 2 page article on the design
>>of their new typeface -- Ecotype.  It was done with PostScript.  Two
>>major requirements were these: 
>>
>[...]

>A most frustrating article--it only told half the story!  What I wanted to 
>know was why do they *fax* the printed output?  If they now use PostScript,
>why not send that, then print it locally (either on an imagesetter if it's
>the final output, or on a laser if they're going to edit it further (or even
>the source from whatever page makeup they use...)).

>John Lister.
>jlister@isc.shearson.com

I expect they are used to people faxing individual articles to each
other.  You know and I know that telling someone to buy a copy
is cheaper than faxing an article, but this is a *business*person's
journal:-).   Apart from anything else, even if they were faxing
copy internally, they *surely* wouldn't be doing it with finished
proffs would they?

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