jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) (06/18/91)
From article <Jun.18.09.55.19.1991.3654@paul.rutgers.edu>, by koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu (Juergen Koenemann): > > CACM articles are deliberately presented in a way that > discourages xeroxing and archiving and retrival > in order to force people to buy ACM Press books with > articles reprinted in a normal scientific useful way I doubt this. When I phoned ACM to complain about some negative aspects of the 1983 style change (in 1985), one of my complaints was that the pink background they put behind some figures was a color that photocopied as black, while a blue background screen disappeared when you did the photocopying. The result of this complaint was that they discontinued the use of pink backgrounds in favor of blue. ACM has always granted the right to photocopy their articles for classroom use, and they do seem to care about the legibility of such copies. I believe that the problem is not so much deliberate intention to make it impossible to photocopy, but rather, a graphic artist or artists who don't understand the needs of the readership. Doug Jones jones@cs.uiowa.edu
kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) (06/20/91)
From article <Jun.18.09.55.19.1991.3654@paul.rutgers.edu>, by koeneman@paul.rutgers.edu (Juergen Koenemann): > > CACM articles are deliberately presented in a way that > discourages xeroxing and archiving and retrival > in order to force people to buy ACM Press books with > articles reprinted in a normal scientific useful way Well when I phoned them to complain, they said that they didn't design the magazine for ease in copying, but rather for aesthetic design. The person I talked assured me that if the ACM didn't want an aesthetic design they wouldn't have hired him. Should have gotten his name so I could make a more specific suggestion on how to improve the CACM.