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alexpgp ([personal profile] alexpgp) wrote2008-05-14 09:05 am
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Doing the math...

Hmmm. This document contains 7800+ words on 8 pages.

Can't you tell, the font size is minuscule?

There oughta be a society for the prevention of cruelty to translators, y'know?

Cheers...
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[identity profile] astroprisoner.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'see, the writer was told "Keep the document to less than ten pages. Eight would be good."

So the writer took all the words he had written, and shrunk them until he fit them all in the required number of pages...

[identity profile] alexpgp.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm thinking you hit the nail squarely on the head.

Fortunately, this isn't PowerPoink, so when the text expands (as it invariably does) by 25%, it'll just add pages.

(If it had been PowerPoink - I just made the name up, I think - then all of the expanded text would've had to fit on the slide... and we all know how much folks like slides with titles 3 points high.)

Cheers...

[identity profile] apollo14.livejournal.com 2008-05-15 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm all for this society... There definitely should be one.

[identity profile] velvet-granat.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I would put into the charter "NO Microsoft Project files!".

Or pdf images - I have the full suite, so I can extract the text files, but the pain of then trying to run it through text recognition software. Ow.

Coffee is good.
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