Re: A prediction about the Presidential campaign

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:19:57 -0500, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:51:55 -0500, mike weber <fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It becomes somewhat apparent that you are neither print nor
graphics-oriented.

The layout and design - including typography and how the type
interacts with graphic elements - are a major part of the production
process in true print media, which the fanzine, to a great extent,
even if distributed online, still mostly is.

If i go to the trouble to make the thing look good - whether i make it
easier or harder to read in the process - then the font and layout may
not be "the maion things of value", but certainly they are a
significant part of the whole experience.

I'm not, actually, surprised that you fail to grasp this.

If the fanzine is primarily print, and the Web site is an extra, then
it makes sense to post the same files that you sent to the printer, if
they are files that random people can use to print out a duplicate of
what you printed out.

But if the Web is the primary means of distribution, and if you don't
expect anyone to print the document, then you should not use a format
that isn't at all suited to being read on a screen.

There are many graphics formats that work fine on monitors -- you
don't have to press a paper-document format into service.

And i said that you do, where?

In fact, i was just as much referring to a zine done primarily for
online distribution; if the faned goes to the trouble of making it
look exactly as he wants it to, then it seems to me that he is
justified in putting it up ina form that will retain that fromatting,
whether PDF or otherwise.

if i select a particular font ... if i wrap text around illos in a
certaion way ... if i make the lines of type a specific length with
specific breaks ... then i want to preserve that design for others to
see.

If i'm just communicating in words that aren't specifically laid out
or formatted, then that's different.
.

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