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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
Dramatically? Hardly. Both IBM and Microsoft have gone to great efforts to duplicate to precision the original Times Roman font, in Microsoft's case as a direct response to the Adobe/Microsoft font wars of the early '90's. To the degree that it would be impossible to factually state that a character shape that has been scanned and faxed is the exact shape of a printed Microsoft Word character shape - particularly at the extremely small point sizes that are being compared. The smaller the point size, the lower degree of detail as directly related to the precision of the output device. Fax machines are at best, 144dpi. PDFs for download are screen res. - 72dpi.
The claim that the memo's are forgeries due to technical issues has been demonstrated to be false. The entire claim of forgeries now rests on people claiming to know the mind of a dead man. Hardly compelling.
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On the first charge, we'll have to settle for a draw. Anyone who works with typesetting knows that it is commonplace to see variations in Microsoft vs. Adobe fonts; you contend otherwise. Certainly, the electronic versions vary dramatically from mechanical typesets. And the similarities extend beyond character shape to almost every other aspect of the typesetting. I realize it is futile to attempt to convince you otherwise.
I have not seen any demonstration that the forgeries claim is false. The only evidence I've seen is that some of the technologies originally in question did in fact exist at the time. Possibility is not the same as probability. Surely, some lonely typewriter collector out there would be able to reproduce the document. Yet, no such reproduction has appeared to even rival those easily produced by the MSWord default settings.
Perhaps it is possible that Mr. Killian stumbled upon the exact typesetting, page layout, and font rules that Microsoft would later establish as its defaults 30 years later. If so, his estate should pursue royalites. Any reasonable skeptic would be suspiscious. Until CBS agrees to an independent evaluation, I shall remain so.