RE: Need a smarter person than me

Subject: RE: Need a smarter person than me
From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:06:25 -0500


Dick...a font was specified. See the next text:

>...For Myriad Roman, can anyone help? I am stumped. ...

I assume that Myriad Roman is a font. I only noticed it because it wasn't a
common font name.

What probably happened was that some time in the past, someone made a
deliverable and they used a certain font and point size. A second
deliverable was made and since the first one was used as a template,
shazaam...instant standard. Now, even if they wanted to change, they cannot
because anything different will appear, well....different.

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>> Regardless of what the numbers actually mean, is it possible that this is
a
>> requirement based on needing to match existing material? If this is the
>> case, being a specific font was specified, wouldn't everyone be producing
>> consistent output, even if nobody is truly producing 11.25/13.5 font?
>>
>> The customer probably doesn't care what they are...if everyone uses the
>> same, everyone's looks the same.
>
>I didn't go back and search for the full text of Sharon's original post.
>If the customer did indeed specify the typeface in addition to the size,
>then you may be correct. What it smelled like to me, though, from the
>snipped version that I responded to, was typical bureaucratese labeling
>regulations.

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