Comments on: Georgia on my mind… http://carsonparkdesign.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/ Online marketing, web site development, graphic design, branding, logos, print collateral, signage, copywriting, illustration - we do it all! Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:46:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Carson Park Ranger http://carsonparkdesign.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-44 Carson Park Ranger Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:53:11 +0000 http://blog.carsonparkdesign.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-44 D'oh! That's so very logical, but it didn't occur to me. I bought a book of essays last week which, when I started reading it I discovered, had lining numerals. I felt as though I'd purchased a defective product. D’oh! That’s so very logical, but it didn’t occur to me.

I bought a book of essays last week which, when I started reading it I discovered, had lining numerals. I felt as though I’d purchased a defective product.

]]> By: Juliet http://carsonparkdesign.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-43 Juliet Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:15:00 +0000 http://blog.carsonparkdesign.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-43 Oh it was easy. Find and replace all the 1s. Find and replace all the 2s. Find and replace all the 3s. (You can probably see a pattern emerging here . . .) It would only take about 15 minutes per search and we thought we were the bees knees for being able to do it (the client had hummed and ha'd about letting their precious job being typeset by this newfangled method because they though old-style figs would be beyond us so the onus was on us to prove them wrong). Needless to say, our old-fashioned DTP methods have now been superseded by in-house automated typesetting and we were unceremoniously dumped! That's progress, folks! Oh it was easy. Find and replace all the 1s. Find and replace all the 2s. Find and replace all the 3s. (You can probably see a pattern emerging here . . .) It would only take about 15 minutes per search and we thought we were the bees knees for being able to do it (the client had hummed and ha’d about letting their precious job being typeset by this newfangled method because they though old-style figs would be beyond us so the onus was on us to prove them wrong). Needless to say, our old-fashioned DTP methods have now been superseded by in-house automated typesetting and we were unceremoniously dumped! That’s progress, folks!

]]> By: Carson Park Ranger http://carsonparkdesign.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-39 Carson Park Ranger Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:57:10 +0000 http://blog.carsonparkdesign.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-39 I wonder how one would "find and replace" numerals in one font with numerals of another? I wonder how one would “find and replace” numerals in one font with numerals of another?

]]> By: Juliet http://carsonparkdesign.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-35 Juliet Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:42:44 +0000 http://blog.carsonparkdesign.com/2007/11/28/georgia-on-my-mind/#comment-35 Fascinating post. Twenty years ago when 'desktop publishing' was in its infancy, I worked on a Mac with what would now seem like the most laughably tiny amount of disk space. One of my regular jobs was a 400pp volume of Law Reports set in Monotype Bembo, with old-style numbers using Pagemaker version 3 or something. The old-style numbers had to be bought (over the counter in a shop - nobody was online in those days) as a completely separate font, and when the job got to a certain stage, I would have to set up the Mac to search and replace all the Bembo numbers with old-style Bembo numbers and it would take about an hour and half to chunter through them all!!! One forgets how it all started, sometimes, and how very far we've come in a relatively short space of time! Fascinating post. Twenty years ago when ‘desktop publishing’ was in its infancy, I worked on a Mac with what would now seem like the most laughably tiny amount of disk space. One of my regular jobs was a 400pp volume of Law Reports set in Monotype Bembo, with old-style numbers using Pagemaker version 3 or something. The old-style numbers had to be bought (over the counter in a shop – nobody was online in those days) as a completely separate font, and when the job got to a certain stage, I would have to set up the Mac to search and replace all the Bembo numbers with old-style Bembo numbers and it would take about an hour and half to chunter through them all!!! One forgets how it all started, sometimes, and how very far we’ve come in a relatively short space of time!

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