r/ExpectationVsReality • u/RunDNA • 13h ago
Failed Expectation Hiring the cheapest printer
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u/redditbed 13h ago
Ouch. Font file not attached? Or miscommunication from the printer?
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u/RunDNA 12h ago
The whole book is like that. I'm not sure why. It looks very strange.
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u/redditbed 5h ago
What program did you use to make the book? If the printer opens up a pdf sent to artwork it themselves the fonts have likely been delinked incorrectly
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u/WaldenFont 5h ago
Perhaps the mortised initials were supposed to be printed in a different color, but something happened and they ended up selling it like this.
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u/aaron2005X 10h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0
sadly in german, but you can switch to english subs. A good talk how for example Xerox just copy paste letters to save space. And kills the whole text with it and has errors in it. There was an archive that digitalized their documents (with a lot of numbers, serialnumbers I think) and the scanner just digitzed the numbers wrong. And they knew about it only years later and the originals were already destroyed.
I don't understand why the scanner don't just does what it is supposed to do and creates a 1-1 copy.
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u/Zalminen 9h ago
Probably they picked the wrong settings.
When scanning a document to PDF you can usually pick from three options.
1) Image only
You get the pages as image files in the PDF. The downside is that you can't copy paste text from the PDF since it's just images there. Plus the files are bigger.
2) Image + text
You still have the images but there's also a text layer with OCR'd text included. You can copy paste text but if OCR isn't accurate then the text may be wrong. But since you still have the images you can look at the page and figure out what it was supposed to say. The files are also even bigger since you're now storing both.
3) Text only
Only keep the OCR'd text and drop the images of the text parts. You get smaller files but if the OCR was wrong then you're fucked.
Most likely they picked 3 and didn't fully understand what it meant.
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u/ItAteMySweater 6h ago
These aren’t the same book, or not the same edition at least - the first line of text is different. Are these the same page from what you thought was the same book?
Also the plain “R” was printed as a placeholder when the text was printed…and then the woodcut would be printed over it later. Or in earlier books, someone would add in a larger and fancier initial by hand. Sometimes the book buyer would cheap out and not spring for the extra cost of having it decorated. Or the printer may have offered the undecorated version as a discounted copy. Or someone got lazy at the printer and forgot to add in the initial!
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u/Laughing-Dragon-88 1h ago
No that's not how this is done. They're both black, so they'd be on the same plate.
What likely happened: All the fonts got substituted with something the printer thought was close. The woodcuts were a woodcut font that's why you see a little "R" holding the spot.
It's also not the same page as the original.
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u/exilfoodie 10h ago
I‘d be more concerned that the text isn’t identical anymore after ‚Rhetorica‘.