Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interaction newsletters
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Elspeth Kovar wrote:

> Keith asked for a colletion of newsletters from Interaction, which
> can be found at http://www.distraction.org.uk/interaction/

> They are, however, in PDF form.

Michael Walsh wrote:

> And I suspect in the European sized paper too.

Thanks.  The browser at work does do PDFs.  I printed them out at work.

Then Richard Lynch brought some leftover newsletters to last night's
meeting, and I took one of each of them home.  (Not a complete set.)

I notice several differences, despite the claims that PDFs perfectly
capture the appearance of a document.

* Some of the fonts are different.  On the original, the H in the
  title has three bars; in the PDFs, one.  The A and U in the title
  run together in the PDFs, but not in the originals.

* The print is smaller in the PDFs.  As a result, it fits just fine
  on American-sized paper.

* The photos are *better* in the PDFs.

* The original are in various colors; the PDFs all have a white
  background.

* The photo on the back of issue 2 is cropped quite differently
  in the two versions.  Oddly, all other photos seem to be cropped
  identically.

Thanks to Elspeth and Rich.  (And to Mike Nelson for helping to
produce them in the first place.)