NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE "CL HELVETICA LIGHT" SCREEN FONT INSTALLED TO CORRECTLY VIEW THIS DOCUMENT.
This document was created using Microsoft Word to key in text and tabs. No tab positions were established in Word.
The Word files were used for text proofing with the client and then formatted in Ready,Set,Go!3.0 for final output.
After text was placed and formatted into tab/columns, RSG's modify (specifications) command was used extensively to place vertical and horizontal lines on all pages.
The horizontal lines were first placed randomly on page 2 and while still selected, the modify command was used to put each line exactly 14 points below the next. The document was saved and all horizontal lines on page 2 were copied and pasted to other pages as needed.
In order to easily determine the exact position required for each horizontal line, without having to caculate in twelves as one went, an OverVUE file was built and through various equation steps the horizontal positions were caculated in decimal equavilents then converted to pica.point digits. A report was then printed out from the OverVUE file and used as a reference list in positioning lines. This allowed the keyboard operator to move at much greater speed in placing lines.
The vertical lines were then placed after printing a proof of the document with only the text blocks and horizontal lines showing. To determine the exact starting positions and line lengths required, one simply had to select a horizontal line at which point a vertical line was to start and view the position of that line with the modify command, then add the length required in increments of 14 points.
All vertical lines were placed on one only page then one set each were copied and pasted to additional pages to make it unnecessary for the operator to continue to specify horizontal positions for vertical lines on new pages. As each page required new vertical lines, a set was simply copied and pasted in place and position and length were modified with the modifications command.
Just as an aside, original composition, including text entry took 13 hours, with an additional two hours necessary to cut amberlith overlays for screen positions not shown on the computer document. The document had, of course been proofed by the client before amberlith was cut......but<grin>.....as we were about to go to press, the customer called and said the company president had looked at the proofs and there were some "minor" <grin again> changes.
The subsequent changes took another three and a half hours on the computer and another two more hours to cut new amberlith overlays. (We got _very_ tired of seeing this thing on our screen.) The upshot of the whole project was that I think we have received among the most indepth experience with RSG!3 tabs and modify command proceedures of any RSG!3 user to date - and we "made some bucks"!
All of this information is joyfully shared with you by:
John C. Tomeny, Graphic Designer, PO Box 447, West Lebanon, NH 03784
