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Day: May 10, 2019

How I typecast

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 L.T. Hanlon5 Comments

The photo shows the following typewritten text. Friday, May 10, 2019. Smith—Corona 5T Silent—Super. My typecast workflow. Someone asked me about the stepsrequired to create a typecast, so that’s what I’m going to explain here. By the way, none of this is original to me. I gleaned most of these from Joe Van Cleave, Richard Polt, and The Rt. Rev. Theodore Munk. OK, the steps. 1 — I first think about what I’m going to write about but I don't cogitate  too much because I want everything to be as spontaneous as possible. 2 — I choose which typewriter to use: Smith—Corona Silent—Super pica, Smith-Corona Silent—Super elite, Canon Typestar 5 electronic typewriter, or Hermes 3000 (1968 model) Techno Pica.	 3 — I photograph the typewritten page using my smartphone’s camera, then create a 1,000-pixel wide, 72 ppi version. 4 — I open the photo in an OCR app, convert the text and export to Microsoft Word. In Word, I clean up the results and then insert the words into the alt attribute of my post’s image. This allows visitors who are employing assistive technology to read the post too. This text also can be indexed by search engines. 5 — I then post the image and amended HTML. Once or twice I used a scanning app instead of a plain photo, but I like the raw look and feel  of a photo. And look and feel are essential to  a typecast, right? Note: Minor corrections added by hand.

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