A young woman works at pasteup (newspaper mechanical production) in 1977. She is leaning toward us over a light table, so that all we se is her short blondeish hair, parted in the middle, a cream colored sweater, and her hands. She is looking down at her hands, resting on the table, where she is trying to start a piece of graphic tape. Beneath the tape is a sheet of layout paper, onto which are pasted some galleys of type. There are scissors and other implements scattered about the light table.
Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These […]
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comp = P()
comp += P().rect(f.a.r).f(pm[0])
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col_width = (plait_r.w / (2*ncol+1))
one_row = P().rect(plait_r.take(row_width,"mdy"))
one_col = P().rect(plait_r.take(col_width,"mdx"))
rows = (
one_row
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.align(f.a.r)
.f(pm[1])
)
cols = (
one_col
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.align(f.a.r)
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