12. Synchronize with the Rest of the World

You take your newborn home from the hospital wrapped in the 21st-century equivalent of swaddling clothes—a car seat. You’re determined to protect her not just from harm but from the slightest distress. And yet, one day—whether it’s day care, a playgroup, or the school bus—there she goes: out in the world and away from your protective care.

So it is with your documents once they leave the cocooned (relative) safety of your own computer. Out in the world, they face the onslaught of foreign systems and applications that can’t always provide what you did when they were safe at home: just the right fonts.

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