And don't anyone even THINK about pointing out the material which claimed Fall Winter... it kinda violates rule 1, for one, and for two... well, haven you ever had a project that slipped its deadline no matter how hard you might have tried to keep it on track?

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But three years? Yikes..I knew it had been a couple of years, but..

Well, I for one can say that whenever it *does* get finished, I'll probably still be up to read it.

On an entirely unrelated note, does anybody have any idea how much it might cost to get te entirety of UF, NXE, and HL printed out, double sided, formatted so nothing's really wonky, in good quality with decent paper, punched, collated, etc, to put in several large binders (or even bound properly, since I'm certain this is already into the theoretical realm of 'when I have a few thousand bucks to kill') for easy addition of new segments as they're filled in?

One feels to own such a collection, even if one had them made onesself, would be incredibly cool. (Not to mention making good use of that bookcase that always ends up holding nothing more literary than birthday and christmas cards. I know you have one. I can't be the only one.)

No, but the Symphony No. 1 Perfect Memory Album (which was as you describe) was about $40 a copy, and required a truly startling number of man-hours to get right.

--G.
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TechMav has already done this. Ask him. ;)

Ardaniel
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited Usual Suspect
"It's not stupid. It's advanced!"

I printed these out over the course of about 40 hours, on an HP printer, with duplexer.

Bottom shelf of my bookcase.
Top shelf
Cover art for the NXE binder.
Close-up of the spine of the NXE binder.

I apologize for the poor quality of the pix, not all of us can afford high end cameras

TechMav RCW #998
Ronin Research
R&D Division
Indianapolis, IN

....Wonder how long it would take me to think of something like that, and produce it as a pencil drawing, then ink it, then send it to someone who knows what they're doing, to get it Photoshop'ed?

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In the event of an emergency, please drop your pants and run around like a chicken with its head cut off.

I can't remember how long it took me to actually think of that drawing; that part of the whole process always depends on how loudly the muse is screaming in your ear. *wl*

Typically, I give myself an hour to pencil something on 9x12 drawing paper. Then another hour on the lightbox to ink it. Longer if it's one of those really intricate and complex things I tend to lose patience with. ^_-;

And once you get to the Photoshop stage, again, it depends greatly on how complex the thing ends up being. (And I can't take credit for the PS work on this particular image since it was before I had the software. Phil gets the credit for that one; he was the one who knew what he was doing at the time. ;) )

-RT
it's annoying when the muse drops half a dozen concepts on you and none of them are a clear picture. Or clear text. :P :/

I hear ya, man.

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In the event of an emergency, please drop your pants and run around like a chicken with its head cut off.

-WF-Qu'est-ce que Hoek?!-

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Yeah, I've been tempted to do that now and again myself.

Actually, what I've been -really- tempted to do is find a good way to get PageMaker to do 16-page signatures and set it up in there so that I can print it out TPB-size instead of binder-size. Now -that- would rock.

Hmm TPB? If that is what i am thinking it
is... Yes that would rock..

-WF-Qu'est-ce que Hoek?!-

TPB = Trade Paberback, the only way to find new copies of Diamond Age and Snow Crash nowadays, which totally negates my clothing scheme, since nothing short of my backpack has the space to carry those, so no more carrying books like that in my jean pockets -_-

Yeah. My own plan was, basically, to print on standard 8.5x11 paper, in landscape mode, so that it folds over and you end up with a volume 8.5" tall by 5.5" across. The key is formatting it so that it prints in nice signatures that I can do this with, then get bound...

(The joys of having free laser printing at the office...)

After reading this thread, I must say, I am quite interested in doing the same myself. That is, when I get my own ink-jet printer. =p And I'll probably have to replace the ink cartridge a couple of times too. Mental note: make sure that the individual colors can be replaced as in Canon printers.

Microsoft Word is good for this sort of task as it have your printer run the odd pages first, then the even ones, thus making it easy to coalate with a regular printer without an unbearable amount of hassle. So any decent inkjet will suffice. I know because I've done a similar thing before. Little brothers who like fanfic but can't read it for themselves can be a bit of a pain.

TechMav? I do have one question. About how much did all that cost you?

-Raven
Don't mind me, I'm like Radical Edward in the head.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." -Edgar Allen Poe.

"Human suffering is such a unique prviledge." -Rene D'anclaude, Armitage The Third.

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." Capt. Bart Mancusoe, The Hunt For Red October.

*Starts stomping and clapping in his seat in time to his chants*
WE WANT THE SHOW!
WE WANT THE SHOW!

-Raven
Don't mind me, I'm like Radical Edward in the head.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." -Edgar Allen Poe.

"Human suffering is such a unique prviledge." -Rene D'anclaude, Armitage The Third.

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." Capt. Bart Mancusoe, The Hunt For Red October.

The fact that this is a Blues Brothers reference is all that kept your account intact.

Keep that in mind.

P.S. Your sig is balls-nasty. Shorten it. A lot.

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/