Timelies all!
Went to the Weird Al concert last night, so I'm just now catching up.
We head off to OVFF tomorrow, so I need to pack.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Oct 20, 2011 2:03:33 pm PDT #2507 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Steph L. - Oct 20, 2011 2:28:49 pm PDT #2508 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So we need a simple, non-technical way to explain that print publications need more pixels than web graphics. It's driving me mad.
Are you ok with saying that pictures on the internet appear blurry when printed and leave it at that or are you being asked "why?"
We're being asked "why," often in a really belligerent way, and then they say the line that makes me want to reach through the computer and get slappy, "But it looks good on MY SCREEN!"
Also, maybe you could have an example PDF on hand to send to them -- Ask them to view the PDF on their computer, and then print it out, so they can see for themselves what you're talking about.
What happens is we use the shitty image they gave us, send them a PDF galley to review, and they print the PDF and then call to ask why the image is shitty.
They also have this cute trick of sending a story in a Word file or an e-mail with the images embedded and don't understand why I can't just use them as-is.
When they're embedded in Word, we have given up on trying to get the art files from the authors. ("What's an 'art file'?" being a common question.) (And all I want to do is scream "How the FUCK did you write your article?!? You know the pretty picture in it? Did it get in there BY MAGIC??? That's a fucking ART FILE.")
Instead we save that one page of Word as a PDF and then export the PDF as a 1200-dpi tiff and then tinker from there. It usually works, unless the art was shitty to begin with. If you take a 72-dpi image off a website and embed it in Word, our weird end-run to make it into a usable art file still won't make it look good. You can't add pixels, god damn it.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2011 2:32:52 pm PDT #2509 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is a cool gank of Pantone.
le nubian - Oct 20, 2011 2:56:39 pm PDT #2510 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
of course I read that as "Pantene."
Cass - Oct 20, 2011 3:09:22 pm PDT #2511 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
This is a cool gank of Pantone.
Makes me consider a Christmas tree.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 20, 2011 3:25:33 pm PDT #2512 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
You can't add pixels, god damn it.
Well, you can but it doesn't end well.
Jesse - Oct 20, 2011 3:27:41 pm PDT #2513 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It is totally both endearing and nefarious!
Ah, kids.
meara - Oct 20, 2011 3:30:59 pm PDT #2514 of 30001
Argh. I somehow accidentally brought my work computer on vacation (it was in the hidden compartment of my backpack, I'd thought I took it out) and forgot my camera!!! The one I bought when I broke the one I bought for new Orleans, because I knew I'd want one HERE!!! Grrrrr. and my roommate isnt home so can't overnight it.
Steph L. - Oct 20, 2011 4:12:49 pm PDT #2515 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You can't add pixels, god damn it.
Well, you can but it doesn't end well.
Fair point. It's like a comic strip pressed on Silly Putty, and then the Silly Putty is stretched.
And yes, we thought about using that comparison at work and decided it was unprofessional.
Liese S. - Oct 20, 2011 4:15:27 pm PDT #2516 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Crank. I knew this was a bad plan. We're throwing a show on Saturday. The pastor of the church where it will be held is in Minnesota until day of. We just managed to get the key today. I am now parked outside of the church waiting for the SO to finish his lessons and get here with the key. I have the lighting gels we need to hang. He is now 15 minutes late and called to say he was 5 minutes away. I have my group in 15 minutes. He doesn't know where the ladder is. Exactly how mugh lighting are we going to get done in ten minutes? I ask you.