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Good science, bad font: Solving the problems of getting published

JAN 01, 2007

DOI: 10.1063/1.4797434

Ben Greenebaum

David Lynch either has forgotten or never needed to use the pre-computer format for figures submitted to journals: They were either handmade India-ink drawings or glossy photographs of those drawings. Every author had to pay a drawing shop or personally master the art. Computers are easier and cheaper, but enable authors to submit unusable figures. My favorite, from my experience as editor of Bioelectromagnetics, is the black-and-white version of a false color map, with both extremes (red and blue) appearing as black and the intermediate yellow showing as white. No editor or publisher can fix that.

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Ben Greenebaum. (greeneba@uwp.edu) University of Wisconsin–Parkside, Kenosha, US .

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Volume 60, Number 1

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