gM Issue 07 (August 2000) 1.0.0

Never heard of this mag before. Since you took the time to mention the poster process, I will appreciate it more now. I always wondered if some members had to cut up the posters by sections to scan or try to use one of those older drag-and-scan ones to make a few long images, then combine those together. It looks great. 

The "surprise" got me. Never saw that either... not as a full-page.

1 hour ago, StrykerOfEnyo said:

I always wondered if some members had to cut up the posters by sections to scan or try to use one of those older drag-and-scan ones to make a few long images, then combine those together.

Dunno what you mean by "drag and scan" but the only way I know to scan a big fold-out poster is to cut it up, since even an A3 scanner is far too small to scan it otherwise.  Biggest poster I ever scanned was a CGW poster that had to be cut into 8 pages.  Of course, I've got some ungodly huge posters that came with some Japanese mags which would need to be cut into 16 pieces!! 

Keep in mind, these things don't just easily pop back into place in editing software. If (ha! I meant "when") the individual pages don't come out of the scanner perfectly straight, you're gonna have trouble getting all of the edges of the page to connect with the surrounding pages.  Being off a single degree means that if you connect the right edge of the page with the page to its right, the bottom/top/left edge of the page won't connect to the adjacent pages.  On those 16-page 4x4 posters, you're looking at a total of 24 page edges on the interior of the image that have to be perfectly matched up.  IMPOSSIBLE.  And remember, supposing you decide to do it, once your 8 hours of work are done getting that poster finished, it's just gonna look like a single regular page to anyone viewing it in a CBR.  Suffice it say, I have no plans to scan those particular posters.

4 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

"drag and scan"

In the early days, they had handheld scanners you would hold a button or "activate," then you would drag the scanner across the page. They started off small, like only 5-6 inch wide, but I didn't know if they still made a version like that today. You had to drag it across the page at a steady speed or it would mess up, but supposedly the length is only limited by how much room you had on a table or floor. This would be early 1990s, but I remember my dad had one, and I tried using it.

I agree with posters, in a reader it just shows up as another page, but slightly bigger. Unless they take the file apart, (which I do often) but the average person will never know. And 4x4 is just insane.