Re: TAG Vol 13 no. 1

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Neil Frank wrote:

> I had a chance to take a quick look at the latest issue at the NEC and I
> was VERY IMPRESSED. Congratulations Mary!! 
> I haven't received it in the mail, so I did not yet read content, but
> overall layout and 2 sided color insert on Amazon trip was VERY nice. Color
> and clarity was better than PAM!!

Here here!  The only thing that I was going to comment on was the
under-resolution cover photo.  Karen told me that universal did that, not 
us.

This brings up something I wanted to ask at the NEC, but never got a
chance to: Mary, I was wondering it we could move towards doing all the
layout ourselves and just having the printers handle the printing? It
seems that every time Universal handles part of the layout, they botch the
job.  In one of last year's TAG's, I had to send them a graphic of my
lighting chart.  Delays and resendings aside, I sent it in no less than
three different formats, including encapsulated postscript, which should
have theoretically scaled very cleanly and printed with nice crisp lines.  
Yet when I got the final issue in the mail, it was fuzzy and anti-aliased,
as if they'd taken my bitmapped version and just rescaled it down.

One other advantage of doing all the layout would be that a PDF could be
sent around via e-mail or posted on a private website so that corrections
could be made before everything goes to the printers.  I have no idea how
we do things right now, so I'm not sure of the feasibility of this.  But
it would sure be nice.

  - Erik

PS: Got our first entrant on the showcase!!!

PPS: James is asking about those two TAG reprints again for the website.

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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