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email this article Font Geek Bona Fides I actually received two emails from people questioning my expertise to examine and criticize the documents shown in the entries immediately below. I've been involved with desktop publishing software and scalable software fonts (as opposed to hot lead type) almost since their inception. I'm a former West Coast editor of a popular computer magazine for a now-orphaned computer, the Atari ST/TT. I also co-owned a software publishing firm, CodeHead Technologies, for whom I designed and laid out packaging and manuals for more than a dozen products (in addition to developing most of those products, using 680x0 assembly language). My software company also marketed a word processing program (Calligrapher, written by a developer in Britain) that had the ability to import and use Postscript Type 1 fonts. And I had early experience with some of the dinosaur-like dedicated word processors that were available in the 70s/80s. I'm not boasting like this just to pump up my lizardoid ego; it's to let you know that I have an extensive background in these subjects--and when I tell you that there's no way the CBS News documents were created on any machine available in 1972/1973, I ain't just whistlin' Dixie.
com and The Corner, and now WorldNetDaily and many other sites--and LGF is slowing down and even timing out for many people when they try to get into the topic for the possibly forged Bush National Guard documents. So here's another topic to handle more comments on the issue.
UPDATE at 9/9/04 4:33:11 pm: Since several people have commented on the one noticeable mismatch--the slightly lower "th" in "187th"--I should point out that this difference goes away when the Word document linked above is printed. My screenshot shows the screen display in Microsoft Word, compared to the printed document from CBS News. When you print my Word document, the superscript "th" exactly matches the CBS News document.
email this article Bush Guard Documents: Forged I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft's Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date "18 August 1973," then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B Killian.
The spacing is not just similar--it is identical in every respect. Notice that the date lines up perfectly, all the line breaks are in the same places, all letters line up with the same letters above and below, and the kerning is exactly the same. And I did not change a single thing from Word's defaults; The one difference (the "th" in "187th" is slightly lower) is probably due to a slight difference between the Mac and PC versions of the Times New Roman font, or it could be an artifact of whatever process was used to artificially "age" the document. UPDATE at 9/9/04 10:57:34 am: And this is not the only document that was apparently written with Microsoft Word;
Roger L Simon comments: It's fascinating how quickly the blogs and the Internet were able to catch this as compared to intelligence agencies which were so slow off the mark with the Niger documents.
A Palestinian militant of Hamas wires a makeshift explosive device as children stand near him, in a narrow alleyway of the refugee camp of Jebaliya, outside Gaza City, Thursday Sept.
FreeRepublic sums up the situation: Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts. The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts. I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 130 in an attack Indonesian police blamed on al Qaeda-linked militants. The blast came days ahead of presidential polls in the world's most populous Muslim nation and exactly a month before Australia's general election. It blew a large hole in the embassy's fence and left a deep crater in the road outside. Charred debris, bodies and body parts, glass and the twisted wreckage of motorcycles, cars and a truck littered the road outside the embassy after the blast, which tore off the glass fronts of nearby office towers, wounding many office workers. Australian Prime Minister John Howard expressed outrage. "This is not a nation that is going to be intimidated by acts of terrorism," he told reporters in Melbourne. His foreign minister, Alexander Downer, who was flying to Jakarta late on Thursday along with a team of bomb experts, put the death toll at 11, all of them Indonesians.
in which employees who answer to the secretary of defense could control the margin of victory in a close presidential election." They would do so, said the Times, by funneling e-mailed ballots through the Pentagon. The system that is giving the Aunt Pittypats of the Times such a case of the vapors was begun in 1990 to enable states to use available technology to facilitate absentee votes from all American citizens -- not just the military -- who are overseas. Now the Defense Department is engaged in a determined effort to ensure that our soldiers and their families away from home aren't disenfranchised as they were in 2000. Problem is, the Times -- again -- is simply making up facts to feed its own paranoia. Well, maybe it's not paranoia: If the soldiers get to vote, they could easily deliver a Bush win in November. he will allow military voters from his state -- one of the most pivotal in the election -- to e-mail ballots from combat zones to the Defense Department." The Times says that the Missouri rule -- and a similar one issued in North Dakota -- opens the door to coercion of soldiers by their commanders and makes it easy for Pentagon ballot-handlers to alter the votes, and it demands that the Pentagon stop handling ballots and instead help military and overseas voters send the ballots directly to local election officials. It would be a stretch to say that every word in the editorial is a falsehood. Though Matt Blunt's office did make the incorrect announcement, the Times -- knowingly, willfully, and with considerable precision -- misstated the facts. One very senior Pentagon official I spoke to Tuesday was dumbfounded. He said, "The New York Times has outdone itself by having mo...
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