By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Enormous pain has been the highlight of the week. So much pain that one would do anything to avoid it.
In my case it was cleaning an infected wound about 30cm long. They tried to get the sutures out but without general anaesthetic I couldn’t bear the extreme agony. Currently they’ve left them in and one day tiny blue worms might work their way out of my leg. Unless the next surgeon I see tomorrow decides he will have a go at extracting them (I hope not).
Indescribable pain in the case of work, is a section of a book we have in hand. One paragraph describes the tortures the Gestapo put people through to extract information, including: …“one man’s feet were held in the fire 20 minutes and his legs slowly burnt off to the knee.”
The book, Moondrop to Gascony, is the amazing and true story of Ann-Marie Walters, who wrote it in 1946 telling of her work as a WAAF with the French Resistance. The new edition has been updated with fresh research and photographs which weren’t available for the first edition. We never think of the heroism of our mums and grandmas during WW2, the anodyne film Charlotte Grey providing only a tiny snapshot. Hollywood must turn its attention to the role women played in WW2 because it was every bit as exciting and dangerous as the men’s.
Moondrop to Gascony will be published later this year by Moho Books as soon as we have finished it for them.
(Tacky link alert) Painful font management is something Windows users will have less of since Extensis released Suitcase Fusion 2 recently. This is one time when Macs get their version of software first but maybe we are their beta testers as well because it took an upgrade until the installer could find QuarkXPress 7 Passport.
Suitcase Fusion 2 for Windows runs in XP2 as well as 32 and 64 bit versions of Vista. Plug-ins are available for QuarkXPress 7 and 8 as well as Indesign CS2, CS3 and CS4. Which is frustrating because the Mac version only supports from CS3 onwards and we sometimes have to use CS2.
The result being that we juggle between Suitcase Fusion 2 and Linotype FontExplorer Pro depending on the work in hand. Both are as good as each other with benefits and drawbacks as reported here and both appear to work in Mac OSX 10.6 without a hitch, according to reports.
As there is currently no version of FontExplorer Pro for Windows it looks as though Extensis will win this little skirmish.
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Loading ...Comment by - August 21, 2009 on 7:07 am
I am wonderring if I can share your article in the bookmarks of society,Then more friends can talk about this problem.
Comment by Carmen - September 6, 2009 on 4:02 pm
Until that is
Typedna release there cross platform font manager. I hear Hood things about that! www.typedna.com
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