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Subject:Re: Another "TWs get no respect" story From:"Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:39:32 -0500
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>No kidding! I had a printer situation where the covers were too small
>and the printer, instead of contacting us for instructions, photo-reduced the
>manual to fit the covers. The type size ended up too small (DUH!) and the
>graphics were a complete mess, because the gray-scale masking created big
>blotches. Just about the ugliest manual I ever wrote.
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>>the printing company messed up and printed our
>>manual covers for an upcoming release
Some pretty good reasons for moving to on-line documents are showing up
in this thread ! ;^)
Mike Wing
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