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by spur_ous 4802 days ago
The aspect I enjoy, almost as much as his writing craft, is his presentation craft, any insights into how the 'book' was produced?

I'd love to understand better how things like the overbled text were created. A photocopy of laser printed text, then scanned perhaps?

The font faces and spacing seem to have been chosen with care, can anyone names the various faces used? guess at the layout software?

Then the PCL is some kind of concatenation of page (bitmapped) images I guess?

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> I'd love to understand better how things like the overbled text were created. A photocopy of laser printed text, then scanned perhaps?

The typed parts looked like a combination of a typewriter and a low-ish resolution inkjet to me.