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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I remember using tissue paper over a photocopy of the art to spec irregular run arounds, ruling out lines with a pencil to match the line spacing, and then marking where line endings would go on each…7 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I also made a spreadsheet for doing copyfitting, yet another happily forgotten task of designers before desktop publishing.4 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
In the brief period between the introduction of the Mac and the advent of desktop publishing and apps like PageMaker, I made this Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheet (September 1984) to calculate "m…8 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
When I started adding OT features in the mid-2000s, there were some popular apps, like MS Office and Flash, with poor or nonexistent OT support. So I made "supplemental" fonts where certain…2 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Spec'ing type to run around an irregular shape (photo, art, whatever)—especially when the text had to fill a certain amount of area—was a dark art. Today, the computer can do it interactively as you …4
