Sharpwriters' Thoughts Blog Archives - Archives - July 2001 June 2002 July 2002 August 2002 September 2002 October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 June 2007 August 2007 September 2007 December 2007 March 2008 May 2008 July 2008 August 2008 April 2009 September 2009 October 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 June 2010 Current Posts Friday, February 11, 2011 Remaking the Elephant I'd rather remake a wheel, I think. The elephant has been tough. I'm starting this as the elephant saves on one computer so I can open it in another computer, put it into a cover, then send the cover for printing. At this point, a good while later, the cover's finally uploading to complete the book, our fourteenth, White Elephants - a memoir. You may have seen that I said before, on Facebook, that it was uploaded. Well, the argument today was a difference in .017 inch width in the spine.Evidently I'd used an old template to do the cover, before we added a few more pages. That measure says 17/1000 of an inch. My mind doesn't wrap around that kind of distinction. My remaking the cover by that much larger today involved a comedy of errors, including doing all the work and telling the computer to make it into the high-density pdf file (1a:2001), then saying it was okay to update the pictures - but that meant it lost the pictures I thought I was using, put in totally unacceptable ones, and - since I had failed to save first - I started over. I ended up with so many layers of attempts that I started all over from scratch one more time. I couldn't find the scratch to start over with, knew it was on an external hard drive and couldn't find that. I looked in drawers, found another external drive I've been looking for, but was surprised this one was so hard to find. I checked every drawer in the office. Finally I found it. Right before my eyes. (Circled in red) Anyway, there were a few more issues, it took half a day to do something that should have really been simple since I'd already done it, but it's done and the actual file is http://eaglewingspress.com/9780982624326-Perfect-WhEle-redone.pdf. (The "perfect" is not my impression of my work but a description of the type binding, incidentally.) One that doesn't take that long to download is this: I'm excited about the book. I can't wait for you to see it. Heck, I can't wait until I see it, and now that won't be too much longer! To read more about White Elephants, check here. Share | posted by Barbara Rollins @ 3:22 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom] << Home