Re: [icon-users] Lorem Ipsum Why? (Was: Quotes problem)
- From: Russell Hafter - Lists <rh.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:02:37 +0000 (GMT)
On 01 Nov, Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4ff77b58d9dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx> David H Wild
> <dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In article <4ff76911aarh.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>, Russell
> > Hafter - Lists <rh.lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Why would I want to do that????
> >>> When you want to show someone, probably a customer,
> >>> how a document will look without needing to have
> >>> exact text.
> >> If I were the customer, I would absolutely want to see
> >> the thing with my real text in it. The most common
> >> question for me is whether the text will fit into the
> >> space available.
> > I hink that you are still missing the point slightly.
> > You might want to show someone what your design of
> > brochure, for instance, would look like - even before
> > there is any real text to show.
> Precisely. The point is that you might want to discuss
> the design with someone and you will find it difficult to
> do that if you use real text. One of the web sites that
> discuss lorem ipsum was set up by a web designer after a
> website design meeting was a complete desaster because he
> had put in some real example text and then showed the
> design to managers and marketing people. Nobody discussed
> the design at all, everyone was just discussing the
> contents no matter how many times he pointed out that the
> text was immaterial and just an example.
Amazing!!
I can see the point of a design with text only, and blanks
instead of graphics, but not the other way round!
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