Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: CACM -- photocopiability Message-ID: <6542@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 15:00:48 GMT References: Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Distribution: usa Lines: 25 From article , by koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu (Juergen Koenemann): > > CACM articles are deliberately presented in a way that > discourages xeroxing and archiving and retrival > in order to force people to buy ACM Press books with > articles reprinted in a normal scientific useful way I doubt this. When I phoned ACM to complain about some negative aspects of the 1983 style change (in 1985), one of my complaints was that the pink background they put behind some figures was a color that photocopied as black, while a blue background screen disappeared when you did the photocopying. The result of this complaint was that they discontinued the use of pink backgrounds in favor of blue. ACM has always granted the right to photocopy their articles for classroom use, and they do seem to care about the legibility of such copies. I believe that the problem is not so much deliberate intention to make it impossible to photocopy, but rather, a graphic artist or artists who don't understand the needs of the readership. Doug Jones jones@cs.uiowa.edu