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PrintPapa Inklings – Dec 09

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Bah, humbug
A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After a while, the hotel manager came out and asked them to disperse, explaining, “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”
A guy goes into a restaurant for breakfast while visiting his hometown for the holidays. After looking over the menu, he tells the waiter, “I’ll have the Eggs Benedict.”
When his order comes, it’s served on a large, shiny hubcap. The customer asks, “What’s with the hubcap?”
The waiter replies, “Oh, there’s no plate like chrome for the hollandaise!”
Quick Tips
Hints for working with fonts for trouble free print jobs
Difficulties with fonts account for more delays, mistakes and extra costs than any other file preparation issues. Avoid problems with your jobs by following this checklist:
Include all the fonts used in your file, and any used in eps graphics files placed in your layout. Check against the font usage report in your layout document.
OpenType and TruType fonts have only one file, but Type 1 (Postscript) fonts have two: a screen and a printer font. Be sure to include both with your job.
Avoid MultipleMaster, or MM fonts. This technology did not become popular enough to be consistently implemented in high end systems. Results can be unpredictable.
If your layout software includes a collection utility, or you have access to one separately, do use it, but please double check that all the correct fonts were included, particularly if you have different versions of fonts installed on your system.
When formatting type in your layout, make sure to use the bold or italic versions of each font you wish to appear as bold or italic – for example, Times Bold Italic. Even though your software may allow you to apply bolding and other styles to Times Roman, for example, you should avoid doing this. The results may print well on your laser printer, but on our high resolution equipment the system cannot “fake it”, and may substitute a default font with unexpected results.
It is good practice to go through the fonts installed on your machine periodically, and remove duplicates or different versions of the same font from different manufacturers.
Business as usual?
The Americans and the Japanese decided to engage in a competitive boat race. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach peak performance. On the big day they felt ready.
The Japanese won by a mile.
Afterward, the American team was discouraged by the loss. Morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found, so a consulting firm was hired to investigate the problem and recommend corrective action.
The consultant’s finding: The Japanese team had eight people rowing and one person steering; the American team had one person rowing and eight people steering.
After a year of study and millions spent analyzing the problem, the consultant firm concluded that too many people were steering and not enough were rowing on the American team. So as race day neared again the following year, the American team’s management structure was completely reorganized. The new structure: four steering managers, three area steering managers, and a new performance review system for the person rowing the boat to provide work incentive.
The next year, the Japanese won by TWO miles. Humiliated, the American corporation laid off the rower for poor performance and gave the mangers a bonus for discovering the problem.
Consult – v.t. To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on.
Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary
COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
anon

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Date: 18th December, 2009 | Under: Fun Stuff | No Comments

PrintPapa – Inklings – Nov 09


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Warning! The following jokes are in very poor taste
CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people.
Cannibals capture three men. The men are told that they will be skinned and eaten and then their skin will be used to make canoes. Then they are each given a final request. The first man asks to be killed as quickly and painlessly as possible. His request is granted. They poison him, then set his skin aside. The second man asks for paper and a pen so that he can write a farewell letter to his family. This request is granted, and after he writes his letter, they kill him saving his skin for their canoes. Now it is the third man’s turn. He asks for a fork. The cannibals are confused, but it is his final request, so they give him a fork. As soon as he has the fork he jumps up and begins stabbing himself all over, yelling, “To hell with your canoes!”
Did you hear about the cannibal who loved children? He just adored the platter of little feet…
Did you hear about the cannibals who attended the wedding? They toasted the bride and groom.
Quick tip
Tricks to minimize pdf files for email and download
• If an image is reduced in size or cropped in your layout, a pdf generated from it will still include the data for the full size, uncropped image, which can increase file size significantly. Make crops and resizes in an image editor first.
• RGB files include less data than CMYK files, so if you are generating a pdf for web/screen use from a print file, save images and/or the pdf as RGB color.
• Switch off the setting that embeds thumbnails in the pdf (Print >PDF >Edit Settings >General). PDF viewers will still generate thumbnails, but they will not be retained in the document.
• Set your document using only standard system fonts and no fonts will need to be emebedded in the pdf. This is particularly helpful for lightweight forms.
• Unless necessary, avoid converting type to outlines in extensive pdf documents. Embedded font data may well be smaller than the vector data required for the outlines.
• Open your finished file in Acrobat and use the Save As command to optimize the file.
A cannibal entered the meat market to buy something nice for dinner. The owner greeted him and told him to look around. The cannibal began to inspect the meat case and noticed the market specialized in brain.
Upon further inspection he noticed a marked disparity between the costs of brain meats. A carpenter’s brain sells for $1.50 per pound. A plumber’s brain sells for $2.25 per pound. He noticed with alarm that a politician’s brain sells for $375.00 a pound. With not a little curiosity he asked the owner why the huge difference in price between the similar meats.
The owner responded with a deadpan look on his face, “Do you realize how many politicians it takes to get a pound of brains?”
Why don’t canibals eat clowns? Because they taste FUNNY!
What do cannibals call athletes? Fast food!
Recently, a large corporation hired several cannibals to increase the diversity of the company, “You are all part of our team now,” said the Human Resources rep during the welcoming briefing. “You get all the usual benefits and you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat, but please don’t eat any employees.”
The cannibals promised they would not.
Four weeks later their boss remarked, “You’re all working very hard and I’m satisfied with your work. We have noticed a marked increase in the whole company’s performance. However, one of our secretaries has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to her?”
The cannibals all shook their heads, “No.”
After the boss had left, the leader of the cannibals said to the others, “Which one of you idiots ate the secretary?” A hand rose hesitantly. “You fool!” the leader continued. “For four weeks we’ve been eating managers and no one noticed anything. But now, you had to go and eat someone who actually does something!”

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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias George Smolett
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Lights on, nobody home
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“My house is on fire! You have to get here right away!!”
“Okay, how do we get to your house?”
“You don’t have those big red trucks anymore?”

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Date: 10th November, 2009 | Under: Fun Stuff | No Comments


 

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