An amusing thing... Some of

An amusing thing... Some of the people who write articles for the magazine I'm having work experience at have the tendency to try and format their own articles, choosing fonts etc. and even going as far as sending some fonts (in the Windows font format, of course) along with the article saying something like, "I would like the title of the article to be written in this font". There are, however, two things they don't realize.
One, how in hell are we supposed to have obscure fonts that they downloaded off the net? 99% of the time, the articles show up as if they were uniformly written in Times New Roman, simply because the sender used some obscure fonts we don't have.
Two, how exactly are we supposed to use the fonts they send us for the article layout, anyway? The graphic department, of course, uses Macs. *l*
And don't think we didn't try to tell them that the fonts can't be used. We got responses varying from "But a font is a font! You can see it on all computers!" to "Uh, Macintosh? What is that, a console?" When people just don't get it, the best thing to do is just give up explaining and say something like "It looks better with the other font" or "The font you used clashed with the style of the magazine, so we chose another one".

¤ October 16, 2001 05:00 PM ¤

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