Re: [BKARTS] Indesign Vs Pagemaker

[Mark Wilden <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Gerald Lange" <Bieler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> So Mark, how much metal have you set?

Counting my junior high school business cards, the stuff I did at the
museum, the summer I ran the proof press printing fake headlines, and my
current work with Cleon at Ponderosa Printing...no more than a thousand
lines, I admit.

But enough to know you don't set type like that guy says you set type.

> From: "Gerald Lange" <Bieler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > Gene Gable's latest article on Heavy Metal Madness takes a look at
>  > composition using a modern page layout program (Quark Express 6.0) vs a
>  > page set by hand. Food for thought.
>  >
>  > http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/19876.html
>
> Except that the author clearly has never hand-set type in his life. Under
a
> picture of a job stick, the caption reads "One disadvantage to metal
> (bottom): You have to learn to spell backwards." That certainly would be a
> disadvantage if anyone set type as in the photo!
>

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