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20/5/09 13:00I just ordered myself a portable air conditioner for my apartment. Now, you might be thinking I'm a wuss for needing one, but it isn't really for me. It's for my computers. Last weekend, the temperature reached the mid 80s. Even with my windows open and THREE fans going, it was HOT in my bedroom/office. I have a large window that faces west and receives direct sunlight from 3PM to sunset. I think you will all agree that $400 for an air conditioner is much cheaper than $2,000 for two new computers, hmmmm? I'm going to have to visit a hardware store to get the exhaust hose hooked up to my apartment complex's specifications. I'm sure it will be worth the trouble in the end. I need Hoth (what I named the AC. Geek points for you if you get it! :B ) here ASAP, as it's supposed to hit the mid 80s again in about a week. :P~~~
Today I was sent the raw tiffs for Naruto 46, which means I can start the conversion. I don't have the changes from mag-to-GN yet, but I can definitely take a bite out of the grunt work. Transferring the type, tweaking for placement and kerning (space between letters), and of course the size reduction, since GN pages are 66% the size of the mag ones. The FX also have to be shrunk to fit, and I can copy and shrink the 5% of mag background touchup I can use for the GN. Every little bit helps, hmm?
One spot of good luck is that the mag pages don't have floating type (when you have type placed directly over the background, not in a word bubble) as part of the image. So I can copy the mag page background from underneath the mag type and paste it onto the GN page--where the floating type IS part of the image. Tweak for size and rotation and we're good to go--unless there's screen tone involved. In which case, at least I can trace the line art from the pasted bit. Again, every little bit helps.
I also have corrections for Natsume 1's first half. First volumes always have tons of changes b/c the various editors who read it are extra nit- picky. Looks like I'll be tweaking a third of the pages. Let us hope they're mostly easy text tweaks!
I'd best run. I should be working instead of blogging. --;;;
Today I was sent the raw tiffs for Naruto 46, which means I can start the conversion. I don't have the changes from mag-to-GN yet, but I can definitely take a bite out of the grunt work. Transferring the type, tweaking for placement and kerning (space between letters), and of course the size reduction, since GN pages are 66% the size of the mag ones. The FX also have to be shrunk to fit, and I can copy and shrink the 5% of mag background touchup I can use for the GN. Every little bit helps, hmm?
One spot of good luck is that the mag pages don't have floating type (when you have type placed directly over the background, not in a word bubble) as part of the image. So I can copy the mag page background from underneath the mag type and paste it onto the GN page--where the floating type IS part of the image. Tweak for size and rotation and we're good to go--unless there's screen tone involved. In which case, at least I can trace the line art from the pasted bit. Again, every little bit helps.
I also have corrections for Natsume 1's first half. First volumes always have tons of changes b/c the various editors who read it are extra nit- picky. Looks like I'll be tweaking a third of the pages. Let us hope they're mostly easy text tweaks!
I'd best run. I should be working instead of blogging. --;;;
