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The supermarket price decoder table is not properly viewable with iPaper. If you want a copy, you will just have to visit another site to get it. You might want to read this first to find out why.

PATIENCE is a virtue that our society doesn't seem to have in abundance today. In this day and age there apparently isn't time for it. That must make 21st century patience an oxymoron. People feel compelled, not just to jump to conclusions, but to take huge flying leaps to them. Though the dictionary defines the words “assume” and “presume” the same way, nobody has ever been accused of being “assumptuous.”

With this in mind, consider the difference between “conclusion” and “preclusion.” The former can only be arrived at by taking into account whatever data may be available – “con” meaning “with.” On the other hand, the latter can be reached prior to obtaining any information whatsoever – “pre” meaning “before.” Therefore, merely “jumping to conclusions” would not be nearly as accurate as “hurtling to preclusions” since no data has yet been acquired with which to “conclude.”

The foregoing was all stated as a preamble to explain why the supermarket price decoder table is not available for the iPaper preview. In Scribd's faqs they state more than once that it displays monospaced fonts correctly. In this case it apparently doesn't recognize the font type because it completely fails to do the job. It reduces the characters and collapses all the spaces, making a perfectly aligned table look like a piece of useless junk.

Since most people are high on first impressions, they will undoubtedly lunge to the wrong preclusion, even though information to the contrary is being given right here. Based on the premise that “what you see is what you get” and “a picture is worth a thousand words,” they would naturally presume that it must be unusable if it looks that way in the preview. That is why it is not displayed now and will not be shown here unless Scribd actually gets around to making iPaper handle this font properly.

If you want a copy of the supermarket price decoder table you can still have it for free, but you will have to take the M.S.Word version before you can look at it. Only by seeing it as it was intended to be seen will you be able to make an accurate evaluation of whether it will do you any good or not. That defeats the whole point of having a preview, but it’s preferable to the alternative. You'll find the supermarket price decoder table completely intact and perfectly aligned at http://www.box.net/shared/d6avxh6cc8. You can also click on the link near the end of the article.

Even if you don't have MicroSoft Word, you can still use the Word Viewer to read any and all files formatted by it. It's also free on the MicroSoft web site at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d... There is a direct link to it at the bottom of the article, too.

After you see the supermarket price decoder table, it would be appreciated if you would browser back here and make a comment if you have anything constructive to say about it, positive or negative. If you have read this far, thank you and maybe the chart will be an adequate reward for your patience. For those of you who have not, you'll get another chance if you read the article. f3