Change just for the sake of change is always bad. And for production operations, it needs to be for a damned good reason to even consider it at all...
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote: > >> I doubt it was typeset by manually assembling types. At the time, my >> bet would >> be on photo-typeset (i.e. using specialized machines doing a somewhat >> cruder >> version of what computers are now doing: making films for offset >> printers) >> or perhaps hot metal (a 19th century techniques whose machines stopped >> being manufactured >> mid 80's if I'm not mistaken). >> >> Laser printers BTW is an early 70's technology. >> >> Yours, > > > > You'd be wrong. In 1982 when Magician was published, publishers were still > resistant to anything non-traditonal. Doubleday owned their own printing > plants in Garden City, NY, millions of dollars of installed infrastructure > and they were change adverse. Magician had custom type fonts designed by > some art director and book designer, and was set by linotype machine > (manually, but not slugging type into a type frame from a California job > case). We started sending discs (4.5" floppies) about the time we were doing > Prince of the Blood, and didn't get to e-mailing text files until about > Shadow of a Dark Queen. > > Best, R.E.F. > > ===== > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
