[ih] cut and paste

[Jack Haverty]

Hi Ole!  Yes, you're probably right.   Although my experience occurred 
in Philadelphia, so maybe the Franklin effect was still strong.

Speaking of Connexions -- are the old issues archived online 
somewhere?   They may be historically valuable.

Jack


On 8/8/23 17:10, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
>
> Yes, the term "cut-and-paste" refers to the process of assembling 
> "camera-ready art" (which includes
> text and graphics/photographs, etc) onto paste-up boards.
>
> I am going to guess that your high-school days didn't actually involve 
> movable lead type, but rather a
> camera that would photograph the whole paste-up board and generate a 
> piece of film which would
> then be used to etch an offset plate for printing. My first 
> publication, ConneXions--The Interoperability
> Report was produced in this manner, using some combination of 
> multi-page sheets (up to 16 pages per sheet).
>
> Yeah, I know, we've moved away from the original topic :-)
>
> Ole
>
>> On Aug 8, 2023, at 16:45, Jack Haverty via Internet-history 
>> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>
>> "Cut and paste" probably dates to shortly after Gutenberg.  From my 
>> high school days, I remember "editors" literally cutting articles 
>> into pieces, cutting photographs to a particular size, and then 
>> literally pasting the pieces onto a large piece of cardboard, the 
>> size of a newspaper page.  They could move things around as needed to 
>> get everything to fit, and putting "continued on page xx" for the 
>> pieces that wouldn't fit.   the paste was applied and then that piece 
>> of cardboard was sent off to the Printer, who painstakingly set the 
>> lead type into the frames for the printing press that put the page 
>> onto paper.   Very Ben Franklin-esque.
>>
>> I've wondered what an editor might look like if it didn't just mimic 
>> ancient traditional non-computer practice.  Is "copy and paste" the 
>> only way to use computers to manipulate documents?   Perhaps with the 
>> advent of AI we'll see some entirely new ways of doing such things.
>>
>> Jack
>>
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