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General Discussion / Pen Spinning Magazine Release
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 09:30:32
Sorry, I haven't been able to get online for a couple days. This file includes each article seperately rather than all in one document. I've had a bit of a nightmare the past week and this hasn't been a priority. Feedback from everyone would be good, about what would make further issues better etc...
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 10:45:09
Pretty cool. I skimmed through a bit but it's 2:49 AM right now and I'm busy watching a live Starcraft match. I'll read it later.
Good work.
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 10:46:26
LOVED IT.
I loved it, I loved it, I loved it.
very well done sir, good job!! -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 11:17:49
Zombo calls that 'brief'? PFFFT
I've only read Zombo's article so far, it was pretty interesting, I've never considered some of those things.
Edit: why are there two identical comssa articles? -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 11:20:19
how am i supposed to read it?
its just a bunch of word files -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 11:24:15
Open the word files, you should see words. Read them.
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 11:28:43
yeh i know that but lyk...
im a lazyass and i thought yu could put them lyk a slideshow -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 12:41:56
That was really good for a first issue. I liked Zombo's article the best, the pen mod articles were also really good. Well done, it's great that this actually got done whatever form it was in
:clap:clap: Oh Yeah, I also liked the card throwing article Mats, really interesting. -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 14:10:27
hmm, maybe we should wikify it.
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 15:02:40
There are 2 same comssa articles... i deleted one of them after i downloaded.
I haven't read them all but i have a suggestion here. Why not move the text to beside the image? that would looks more like magazine. Or centered the image maybe... i see the formating for all the files are slightly different. And using "justify" like in "The Art of Pen Spinning" article would be neat.
Page numbering? -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 15:08:25
Only read the zombo's article, editorial and the interview. Pretty cool so far, but I didn't really like the interview - you see, the way you did it was more like "spinner's profile", which would look so much better imo if it was few facts about him and not interview with him (but based on the interview with him)
Anyways, incase that one is down, I did some mirrors (putting them in first post would be nice):
Senspace.com
Uploaded.toQUOTE (cyshing @ Nov 23 2007, 04:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There are 2 same comssa articles... i deleted one of them after i downloaded.
Yeah and featured penspinner is there twice aswell, but as .rtf and .doc -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 16:04:18
it's quite an accomplishment and i'll enjoy reading through it but i can't believe you released a bunch of word documents. it would have been very simple and much more professional do a little of work on the layout and look of the articles and compile them in one .pdf document.
i'd be happy to help with this in future if you don't have the resources. -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 16:18:59
YEA! thanks a lot to all the writers and staff!
/EDIT: WTF ist this? are you kidding me? -___-
this is not a magazine. its a bunch of articles oO
EDIT2: lol ^^ you took one of breens inserts? pretty cool -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 17:44:22QUOTE (asakawa @ Nov 23 2007, 11:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>it's quite an accomplishment and i'll enjoy reading through it but i can't believe you released a bunch of word documents. it would have been very simple and much more professional do a little of work on the layout and look of the articles and compile them in one .pdf document.
i'd be happy to help with this in future if you don't have the resources.
right, it would also help if the one doing the layout work isn't having trouble with the law and that the chief editor isn't busy and logs in once per week
it's either released like that or never released... -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 17:59:55QUOTE (taichi1082 @ Nov 23 2007, 05:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>YEA! thanks a lot to all the writers and staff!
/EDIT: WTF ist this? are you kidding me? -___-
this is not a magazine. its a bunch of articles oO
EDIT2: lol ^^ you took one of breens inserts? pretty cool
I agree, maybe it could be done even now with this magazine, why not. -
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 18:03:16
just put it in the wiki and you have your magazine.
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 22:05:18
I liked the articles and I'm glad that mine made it in, although I don't understand why it's there twice. I think that it would've been worth it to just wait a while and revamp it, so-to-speak but I wasn't responsible for editing so I don't have any room to talk. Maybe for the next issue we could do like the others say and release it as a pdf. I have some experience with these things so I could help out as well. Anyway, for the first try it seems pretty good and I'm excited to work on the next issue.
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Date: Fri, Nov 23 2007 22:13:49
I must say, I'm impressed with the magazine. However, I too thought that it would be nicer in a .pdf format. I took the liberty of taking all of the articles and putting them together in a more magazine-like form. If this is not what the creators/designers envisioned, or if they feel that I have stepped on their creative toes, so to speak, I apologize in advance. However, I think that it looks better than the Word documents. I used a template in Scribus, so the design is not top-notch, but I think it's alright looking. I would be happy to work on future issues of the magazine, and I would improve the quality of my design, of course, for future releases. Anyways, here's the pdf:
Pen Spinning Magazine PDF -
Date: Sat, Nov 24 2007 00:54:46
very nice tswift, however the order is wrong.
Editorial should be the first section, followed by interview, then the featured articles, my article, the two modding tutorials, then the misc news (IMO) -
Date: Wed, Nov 28 2007 08:48:32
Nice =D Some re-organizing like zumbo said, and maybe some colors to the backgrounds? Awesome job though, I was planning on putting all the text in image files with photoshop but a .pds magazine like this is much nicer ^^
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Date: Thu, Nov 29 2007 19:53:09
I would have PDFed it, however, my computer (and laptop) had BOTH very recently died and I didn't have anything to put them in a pdf format (and still don't). I cannot work on this project for a while as I'm not able to be active enough. If someone else wants to take over that would be great
If not, as soon as I'm active again (perhaps a few months) then I can do this again if anyone wants (but better formatted).
Oh, and I haven no idea why the comssa article is there twice
Sorry. -
Date: Thu, Nov 29 2007 20:42:03
I can take over for an issue or two. I'll make a thread about #2 within a few days.
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Date: Thu, Nov 29 2007 22:36:44
Ew, the content is great but the way it's presented is horrbile. If you guys would like it i can make a template in photoshop with a nice background... layouts and stuff and then give it to you...
And PDF's FTL becayse they take awhile to load to some users and it ill be better if you just use individual pages and then either make an online one buy click "next" to go to the next page or, Make them download the pages in a zip file and view them seperately -
Date: Fri, Nov 30 2007 02:32:17
PDFs only take a while to load if you use a bloated program to view them. Foxit Reader users don't have to wait a long time to view PDFs.
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Date: Sun, Dec 2 2007 16:44:30QUOTE (KinXiom @ Nov 29 2007, 10:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ew, the content is great but the way it's presented is horrbile.
One could say the same of your spelling!
Excellent sfsr. I hope you guys can get an issue #2 and looking nice too
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Date: Sun, Dec 2 2007 17:42:27
Haha cool is this going to be a usual monthly thing now?
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Date: Sun, Dec 2 2007 17:44:34
Read the original main thread.
This will be somewhat bi-monthly. -
Date: Wed, Dec 5 2007 02:39:57
the magazine was very well done
I printed it off and read it at school and home -
Date: Fri, Dec 28 2007 15:41:20
Lol i just printed the whole thing out to give me something to do on the plane. hehe
lol in the "News From Around the Pen Spinning World" you should have new countries that started penspinning (*HINTHINTMEMEIRELANDNUDGENUDGE*) lol
and the new ps boards (*hinthintPSUKnudgenudge*) lol -
Date: Fri, Dec 28 2007 16:35:46
Nice....
Zombo's "brief article" was awesome...though not so brief
Oh ya, what is that "SpiCa" thing, I can't find it online -
Date: Fri, Dec 28 2007 16:40:45
http://petsns.p.cmssquare.com/
you can't enter if you don't have a log-in.
you can't register if you're not invited. -
Date: Sat, Dec 29 2007 02:59:49
Okay.....
so how do you get invited? -
Date: Sat, Dec 29 2007 05:21:31QUOTE (Skittles @ Dec 28 2007, 09:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Okay.....
so how do you get invited?
you have to get some japanese contacts. but not all japanese have a spica account (I think right now there are around 80 members).
also the site is pretty much useless for foreigners because everything is in Japanese. -
Date: Tue, Jan 1 2008 23:04:44
that's really creative
