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dolariLAST WEEK
Things I learned during my time back home. My mother believes that they DO break cars when they use them. They look at my truck, which is 14 years old, and that's it's in better shape than all three of their cars, and honestly believe that they're doing something to break them.
Most of the week has been fighting another computer crash. I'm beginning to think maybe my backup drive is going bad. This time, I lost two months of backups, which is all my ROMs, a good deal of MP3s and pictures. It's not really a terrible loss, my important stuff is still around (the AWFW Graphic Novel most of all) but it was still a punch in the gut. I need to make more incremental backups more often, and less total backups less often.
On Saturday I actually managed to get up at a decent time, but still didn't get enough sleep. I woke up about 10 AM, and Dean and I headed off to the "Original Pancake House." It was okay, nothing to write home about. I prefer Kerbey Lane's pancakes. We shopped around a bit ( :P ) and finally came home.
SUNDAY
I woke up and found out that Eddie Guerrero had died. It really caught me off guard. Here was a wrestler who, after a carcrash in State college in 98, cleaned himself up, dusted himself off, found religion, got off drugs, and became one of the most respected wrestlers out there. Gonna miss the guy....
I started comics pretty early actually. I woke up at Noon and started pretty quick, finishing up all the pencilling at about 4AM or so. I scanned it all in, and assembled it all in QuarkXpress like I usually do. However, I have a new (yet still obsolete) version of Quark.
I actually have a hell of a time getting these things lettered as it is. Normally, I load my images into a Quark template to get the images into their boxes and to letter the comics. Once it's all done, the rigamarole begins. It's exported into an EPS file, which is basically the language most printers get to print stuff on paper. It's in this format cause it's the only real graphics format Quark spits out to.
From there, it goes into Adobe Illustrator. I throw it into Illustrator instead of my usual graphics programs because Paint Shop Pro just decides that I don't have any fonts period and just loads the graphics. Illustrator opens up my file almost perfectly (it usually takes one word and misplaces it just for fun, though). I tell it to take my fonts and save them in a vector format, and save it as an EPS again. This way, when Paint Shop Pro opens it, it doesn't drop the fonts, cause all it sees are curves and graphics.
Quark 6, though, must use a different version of a Postscript file, cause once it spat it out, the only program that would open it up was Paint Shop Pro, which threw out all my fonts. I messed with all the settings I could, and nothing changed. I installed GIMP, Photoshop, all of them just choked on it. About 9AM I figured out that Photoshop cna open PDF files, and I exported my comic to PDF format (which is basically an EPS, again, but very specialized). And opened it up in Photoshop. POOF, there was the comic. I saved it in BMP format, resized it in Paint Shop Pro (I can't stand the way Photoshop resizes images) and I finally got it working.
In all, this might be an improvement. Not nearly as much "cleanup" I had to do with Illustrator throwing things around, but by the time I finished it all, I was so tired, and it was so late that I just threw up the pencils on the site and went to bed.
Consdiering there won't be a comic next week, I may update with a colored and inked version instead since the DOR Comic IS the comic for next week.
MONDAY
I woke up and I feel really unwell. Another lack-of-energy day. I need to clena house, and shake off this weak feeling.
Things I learned during my time back home. My mother believes that they DO break cars when they use them. They look at my truck, which is 14 years old, and that's it's in better shape than all three of their cars, and honestly believe that they're doing something to break them.
Most of the week has been fighting another computer crash. I'm beginning to think maybe my backup drive is going bad. This time, I lost two months of backups, which is all my ROMs, a good deal of MP3s and pictures. It's not really a terrible loss, my important stuff is still around (the AWFW Graphic Novel most of all) but it was still a punch in the gut. I need to make more incremental backups more often, and less total backups less often.
On Saturday I actually managed to get up at a decent time, but still didn't get enough sleep. I woke up about 10 AM, and Dean and I headed off to the "Original Pancake House." It was okay, nothing to write home about. I prefer Kerbey Lane's pancakes. We shopped around a bit ( :P ) and finally came home.
SUNDAY
I woke up and found out that Eddie Guerrero had died. It really caught me off guard. Here was a wrestler who, after a carcrash in State college in 98, cleaned himself up, dusted himself off, found religion, got off drugs, and became one of the most respected wrestlers out there. Gonna miss the guy....
I started comics pretty early actually. I woke up at Noon and started pretty quick, finishing up all the pencilling at about 4AM or so. I scanned it all in, and assembled it all in QuarkXpress like I usually do. However, I have a new (yet still obsolete) version of Quark.
I actually have a hell of a time getting these things lettered as it is. Normally, I load my images into a Quark template to get the images into their boxes and to letter the comics. Once it's all done, the rigamarole begins. It's exported into an EPS file, which is basically the language most printers get to print stuff on paper. It's in this format cause it's the only real graphics format Quark spits out to.
From there, it goes into Adobe Illustrator. I throw it into Illustrator instead of my usual graphics programs because Paint Shop Pro just decides that I don't have any fonts period and just loads the graphics. Illustrator opens up my file almost perfectly (it usually takes one word and misplaces it just for fun, though). I tell it to take my fonts and save them in a vector format, and save it as an EPS again. This way, when Paint Shop Pro opens it, it doesn't drop the fonts, cause all it sees are curves and graphics.
Quark 6, though, must use a different version of a Postscript file, cause once it spat it out, the only program that would open it up was Paint Shop Pro, which threw out all my fonts. I messed with all the settings I could, and nothing changed. I installed GIMP, Photoshop, all of them just choked on it. About 9AM I figured out that Photoshop cna open PDF files, and I exported my comic to PDF format (which is basically an EPS, again, but very specialized). And opened it up in Photoshop. POOF, there was the comic. I saved it in BMP format, resized it in Paint Shop Pro (I can't stand the way Photoshop resizes images) and I finally got it working.
In all, this might be an improvement. Not nearly as much "cleanup" I had to do with Illustrator throwing things around, but by the time I finished it all, I was so tired, and it was so late that I just threw up the pencils on the site and went to bed.
Consdiering there won't be a comic next week, I may update with a colored and inked version instead since the DOR Comic IS the comic for next week.
MONDAY
I woke up and I feel really unwell. Another lack-of-energy day. I need to clena house, and shake off this weak feeling.
