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Old 06-24-2012, 06:31 PM
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What you could do is to take a snapshot of a page of the text, paste, crop & scale it to the right size in Word, position it behind the text, then type the same text on a few lines in Word, so that your typed text overlays the pasted image. Then simply play around with various fonts and point sizes in Word till you find a close match.

To match the font, you might actually find it easiest to use an oversized image of the amazon page, as that will make it easier to recognize the similarities/differences. If you position the image carefully so that the first character of your typed text overlys the corresponding character in the image you can use the image's corner handle to quickly re-size it for precision comparisons again the font.

Matching point sizes can be difficult, as the publishers aren't restricted to 0.5pt increments like you are in Word. So, even if you get a good match



FWIW, the font is fairly similar to Times New Roman and Footlight MT Light.

As for the margins, simply measure them against a correctly-scaled image from the amazon page - it has the actual page dimensions (7.4 x 9.2 inches) on the site. Of course, that doesn't mean a great deal if you're not printing on the same finished paper size.
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