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November 11, 2003
hot springs by friday
My friend Jon wanted to get rid of one of his aquariums, and I was happy to oblige, so last night I had a minor workout moving his 40+ gallon aquarium from his apartment to my home. I don't quite know where to put it yet, but it's a fine aquarium and will surely brighten a corner some day.
Grrr...my first time using Quark at work and it's been a challenge. Adding to that is the fact that my predecessor here at work fried her computer before leaving. While some archives were spared, the fonts and image pathways were destroyed, so I have to reconstruct the entire PC and several documents that need converting to PDF. Current issue: one of the frikkin' .eps images' transparency is not being preserved in the conversion from Quark document to PDF. This logo will appear with a white square border on the usually bronze background. I'm callin' up Chrisafer...any suggestions?
On Thursday I will be taking off to Missoula, Montana for a high school friend's wedding. Her first one was a funky Quaker/Tibetan affair, replete with prayer flags, square dancing and Quaker sharing circles. This time she's marrying a Vietnamese guy, so it should also be interesting and hopefully tasty. Since they visited DC like TWICE I feel compelled to return a visit. I'm skipping the pre-wedding events on Friday to trek out to the Jerry Johnson Hot Springs or Weir Creek springs all by myself, apparently in Idaho. Then lots of eating and hanging out with the wedding party and old high school friends until Sunday. I'll try to take some pictures.
Then after Sunday I fly home to Holmen, Wisconsin to spend time with Mom, visit grandma, and my brother and his kids. I will also drive out to Madison to visit some more high school friends and some jimbo.info fans as well. If there's time I'd like to drive up to my alma mater and get a new Point Beer sweatshirt, as the one I got back in college is quickly fading away.
Posted by jimbo at November 11, 2003 9:50 AM
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I used to have that problem with Quark all the time (before I threw off those shackles and moved to InDesign...).
Check to see that you have set a clipping path for the EPS file. I've sometimes just gone in and done that even though you'd think it wasn't necessary, and it's done the trick.
Posted by: Gene at November 11, 2003 6:02 PM
I want to know what the demographic is for your typical "jimbo.info fan" to ensure that I fit the mold.
Posted by: pat at November 11, 2003 9:04 PM
G: Yeah, I want to convert to InDesign too, and have it on my PC, but my school likes Quark. But what is a 'clipping path'?
P: I used the term 'jimbo.info fan' to preserve the identities of the innocent, but most of the time the typical j.i fan is interesting and cooks well.
>; )
Posted by: jimbo at November 11, 2003 10:12 PM