New Release: NextGen Issue 67 (July 2000)

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NextGen Issue 67

July 2000

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[miketheratguy]

"Metal Gear Solid 2: Konami's masterpiece unveiled".

If they'd have unveiled Raiden, they wouldn't be calling it a masterpiece. BOOYAH!

[roushimsx]

Crazy question, but you don't individually rotate/crop the pages, do you? It looks like a couple of 'em slipped through the cracks...the cover is about a half degree too far clockwise, inside cover is .6 anti-clockwise, page 17 is about .25 too far anti-clockwise, etc. Really stuck out because the cover (and preview) were so far out of alignment.

[Sean697]

Crazy question, but you don't individually rotate/crop the pages, do you? It looks like a couple of 'em slipped through the cracks...the cover is about a half degree too far clockwise, inside cover is .6 anti-clockwise, page 17 is about .25 too far anti-clockwise, etc. Really stuck out because the cover (and preview) were so far out of alignment.

In before Marktrade. But I believe he uses a tool to automate it? I do not. But the real problem I think, for me anyway, is a lot of these magazines are not printed perfectly straight. Or the cut is sometimes crooked, or the alignment of different elements on the page is off. This happens more with older mags but you see it with newer ones as well. So sometimes you have to decide what element makes sense to align the page to. Especially with pages that are primarily artwork. Another consideration, is when the pages were printed crooked or cut crooked, is how much you are willing to crop. Because sometimes achieving a straight image might require you to crop part of the image art and make the page have some artwork cropped away or something. It gets really infuriating sometimes for me making a decision. Especially when there are multiple elements on a page with different alignments, a page cut at the presses at s slant, and artwork reaching the borders. For me I just try and make consistent choices on what part of the page I'm going to align, either text or graphical elements. And I usually err on including as much of a full page art spread as possible rather than making perfectly straight and cropping out the image. My guess is the automated program sometimes doesn't pick the best element to align too. Or the page was cut crooked.

[marktrade]

Crazy question, but you don't individually rotate/crop the pages, do you? It looks like a couple of 'em slipped through the cracks...the cover is about a half degree too far clockwise, inside cover is .6 anti-clockwise, page 17 is about .25 too far anti-clockwise, etc. Really stuck out because the cover (and preview) were so far out of alignment.

I'm afraid sometimes that's just the way the page is printed and cut, especially with obvious cases like this cover. When I manually align it with the content, I end up cropping too much and it looks awkward either way, so I go with the page edges.

But to answer your (not crazy) question, no, I don't manually align every page. I first run all the pages through this small deskew app and then go through and manually check every page. If it looks out of alignment then I'll try to do it manually, but that's usually only for a few pages out of a hundred.

It's not perfect and I recognize the possibility that there may be a few more pages that are only very slightly out of alignment but not enough to catch my eye while checking it, and that these scans can always been improved either with more editing or a better scan from a better source.