re: #120 goddamnedfrank

Like you said earlier, nobody’s been able to reproduce it on any conventional typewriter. It was readily reproduced identically using MS Word’s default settings. Everything else was just what we call “distressing the document” running copies of copies through a xerox machine until it looked “old” enough.

Like you I really wanted it to be true, and sat back, watched the superscript debate and held out hope that would bust it wide open. It never happened.

At this point it takes a monumental amount of credulity and self delusion to believe the document is authentic. It’s perfectly reasonable to believe that there was some shadiness surrounding Bush’s ANG service, but there is no basis whatsoever for believing that the document wasn’t faked.

You know, being fairly adept with type fonts and also a good visual bullshitter, I have wondered if I could duplicate a typewriter with Microsoft Word.

I think I could pull it off with Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw or even Adobe InDesign. I don’t work in Word enough to know if I could modify each and every letter’s spacing, if needed, to get the look of a classic letter-spaced strike on machine.

Now that I am thinking about it, I wonder if there are fonts available that mimic typewriter letter spacing.

The fact that the default Word setting hit the forgeries dead on said to me it was a total amateur doing the fakes. A good forgery artist would at least have known the difference between letter spacing and type font spacing. So, even some attempt at chaning the kerning in word would have been better than rock stock outta the box.

It might have made Charles work a bit more.