Reply #22: Evidence that the memos were typed on a Selectric Composer

[allemand]

The memos can be reproduced with absolute accuracy on a Selectric Composer, something that is not possible with MS-Word and Times New Roman, because the font doesn't match exactly.

http://shapeofdays.typepad.com/the_shape_of_days/2004/0...

Look at the similarities ! Even the "4" is exactly as it should be. So the typeface can be identified as "Press Roman" (maybe 11-point).

The author of the blog still tries to dismiss the evidence, but the one who provided the example states that he could have reproduced the memos with absolute accuracy:
"Yes, if I had really tried, I could have matched the spacing (leading). The leading on the composer can be finely adjusted. Don't know if it is down to the single point level, but it probably is since you can set the leading according to the font, and the leading dial goes from something like 6pt up to 14pt."

Also the centering should not be that difficult. And the addresses and the memos were not necessarily typed on the same day, maybe they had some forms prepared in advance (prepared on the same day, but used for memos 3 months apart).

Bouffard now also says that it was done on a Selectric Composer:
"Bouffard, the Ohio document specialist, said that he had dismissed the Bush documents in an interview with The New York Times because the letters and formatting of the Bush memos did not match any of the 4,000 samples in his database. But Bouffard yesterday said that he had not considered one of the machines whose type is not logged in his database: the IBM Selectric Composer. Once he compared the Bush memos to Selectric Composer samples obtained from Interpol, the international police agency, Bouffard said his view shifted."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/11/a...