BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Archives

The listserv where the buildings do the talking

BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

Options: Use Classic View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:03:37 -0800
text/plain (20 lines)
Everyone wants pdfs now... no paper, no drawings, no large format.
Architect recently got irrate at me because the structural engineer that
HE recommended could not turn shoring dwgs. into pdf files thus we had
to wait for originals to move through the postal system. Even overnight
mail is not fast enough these days.

][<

>         Besides which everything is done xerographically
>         (offset?) these days; I doubt that anybody makes blueline (or
>         blackline) prints anymore--no muss, no fuss, and best of all,
>         no ammonia.   And God knows there can't be anymore real
>         blueprint (i.e, whiteline) paper left in the world, either.
>

--
To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>

ATOM RSS1 RSS2