Credit: Jeff Miller at The Curt Jester

Inspired by Rathergate, Jeff Miller has created Microsoft Forger, with handy features for future CBS sources, including:

Output machine selection – Select from a variety of emulators for everything from manual typewriters, IBM Selectrics, early model word processors such as Wang and many others.

Font selection – Once you have selected the machine type, font selection is limited to only those fonts actually available for that machine. No longer will you make stupid mistakes like selecting Times New Roman for memorandum that were suppose to be typed on a IBM Selectric.

Proportional fonts and kerning – Again options are limited by machine type

Key emulation – Only those keys actually on the selected machine type are activated. Special features such as subscript and superscript will appear only as that machine would have outputted it. Some extremely amateur forgers have actually used features such as reduced font sized superscript “th” in documents that were suppose to have been from a normal typewriter. Our product will prevent such simple mistakes.

Copy machine emulation – Before you print out your document you can have it automatically appear to have been run through a copy or fax machine multiple times. Lettering will look aged and blurred with random specks according to our specialized algorithm.

Margins and document centering – Each document created is slightly different to account for the non-exact centering of manual machines and the variance of paper feeds. Nobody will be able to overlay your forgery with his own created forgery and have them exactly line up…

Hee-hee.

Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.