On 27 Apr 2002, at 18:20, Richard Yates wrote: > David Fenton wrote: > > I think there's a major issue unresolved here: > > Yes, at least one. > > > - Is this an engraving competition or an engraving software competition? > > > > That is, is the goal to find the best engraving or to find the best > > engraving software? > > > > If the former, fonts should be entirely left up to the engraver. > > Yes. > > > If the latter, then the fonts should be limited to the engraving software > > defaults. > > But this still will not prove much about the software. It arbitrarily draws > a line that says 'These defaults cannot be changed, but these can.' I can > change fonts as easily as I can change a stem length. A feature of software > is the ability to substitute fonts - why handicap it by prohibiting use of > this feature?
Well, if you allow any old font, then you're no longer testing the software's capabilities, but instead the font collections of the individual engravers. Why not allow multiple submissions of the same engraving job, one with default fonts, the other with the engraver's preferred fonts (if those differe from the defaults)? -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
