On 22 Nov 2005, at 15:37, andy@adlee.co.uk wrote:
The sleeves wew done by Slim Smith at Designland. He used to boast he could design a record sleeve in an hour. If you look at Mute sleeves from the same era you can see the design similarities. I'm guessing he used quark on a Mac. What was the state of pro DTP in the late 80s early 90s?
late 80s early 90s? for DTP it had to be either Quark or Pagemaker on a Mac i seem to remember that for more artsy DTP (where pictures were the main interest), Quark was the prefered choice, although for more page- layout orientated DTP (where presenting the text best was the priority) then Pagemaker (when it was Aldus PageMaker, not Adobe iirc) was far more powerful. i would expect the text was stretched slightly horizontally and vertically to make it fit the sleve designs anyway, so you'll never be able to tell the correct font by scanning them in - the only way to be sure will be to recreate the sleeves from scratch, put the text in and make it fit, and then overlay a scan of the original and see how close you can get it to match certainly, in the past, i've had far more luck with Compacta Bold with horizontal scaling than with any other font family