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  • MrOneHundred0

    All this talk of CSS has reminded me of when Illustrator used to allow you to code PostScript by hand. Learning a bit of it enabled me to be able decode postscript errors on our old imagesetter. It was always fun to be the apprentice and have a bunch of old hands around while I waded through pages of error code and I’d suddenly point to a line and say “There’s your problem! Offending stackerror 6906A. That means you have a font corruption on page 23. We’ll swap it out for a Type1 version and it’s good to go”.

    Jaws would it the floor. (NOt trying to bignote myself, just reminiscing)

    • that's funjuhls
    • I always feel that having to code web work is almost as primitive as having to code postscript
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    • I remember those days as well
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    • not that I learned any of it
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    • or know anything now
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    • I remember those days as wellmoamoa
    • j/k I have no ideamoamoa
    • I was just starting during those day. Prepress was serious business. Now you just chuck a PDF and your done.
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    • Too true, pylon, too true.MrOneHundred

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