Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:47:44 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Keith
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Keith, I apologise for my earlier post regarding WSFA journal. The tone of the response was inappropriate. The
WSFA Journal is clearly in good hands. The suggestion I made still stands (assuming freeware is available to
implement it).

and Ted, I apololgise to you as well. Re-reading the various posts, it's clear that I over-reacted. I
personally feel that the program was of higher quality than you do, but then I'm biased. Certainly there were
errors that could have been corrected. Some of that had to do with software problems that cropped up in the
final days before printing. In the scramble to make last-minute changes and deal with problems with Adobe
PageMaker, copyediting suffered and some changes that should have been made, weren't.

And in the interest of passing on experience to next year's program book editor, I would suggest being very
careful with using Adobe PageMaker or I suppose any other program. Go to the printer well in advance of your
printing day and make sure they can open and print a file using that program. I received assurances over the
phone on two separate occasions that the printer could handle PageMaker files. When the day came, they
couldn't, and I spent a day and a half going to four different local printers before I discovered one that
could print the thing out.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling