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nafod40 writes:
John Miller wrote:
nafod40 wrote:

Hey old goats...

The latest buzz from the rabid right wing attack dogs is that the newly
released memos about George Bush are forgeries. Bizaare.


Let me try this again (and apologies if there's a dupe).
I checked the link. Their premise is *so* broken. That's what happens
when people making these judgments are too young to have any historical
knowledge. Near-typeset quality in the office is nothing new.

I think it's all coming out now, but it's fun to look at them. One thing
the new memos have that your typewriter couldn't do is kerning, where,
for example, the 'o' nestles under the 't' in the word "To". typewrites
could never do that, because it requires knowing what the second letter
is when you hit the first.

I feel like Matlock hunting done McGiver.

There are also going to be differences in the typeface itself -
royalties on teh use of a particular font are very expensive, but
nobody wants to be missing a font from theri catalog. The various
foundries (The folks that design the fonts) will take a basic design,
make minor changes, and put it out in their catalog under a similar
name. This means that teh source of teh type for a document can be
traced fairly easily. Not quite to fingerprint level, perhaps,
(Although with a typewriter or Daisy Wheel Printer that can happen,
since t ey all wear differently) but at least to the "Rare Blood Type"
level.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster