Comments on: Tater Awards Issue Out!

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:18:00 +0000

Lousy wop-dagos still can’t cook.

By: Marla

Marla — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:47:37 +0000

Bravo, Tyler! Your recount of evenings spent at Buster’s made me snort and cry and long for the fall/winter of 2003.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:08:55 +0000

Like a fine wine that way.

By: Danimal

Danimal — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:09:17 +0000

Aw come on, Bill improves with age.

By: Danimal

Danimal — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:17:37 +0000

I like the new page numbers. They stay in the picture! I really don’t see how they look ‘zine-ish.

You want curmudgeonitude, Timothy, pull up a stool and bring me my jug…

-In my day, we put the dingbat at the end of every article.

-In my day, we’d have the author-note blurb at the end of every article in Italics, damn it!

-In my day, we’d tweak and tweak the layout until we eliminated all that white space at the end of every article.

-In my day, we’d edit our pull quotes for brevity and snap!

-In my day, we’d identify each story on the jump page to cut down on reader confusion. You know, “Please turn to BOOBS, page 20″ . . . and then on page 20 it would say “BOOBS, from page 12.”

-In my day, we’d throw in the very occasional reference to national politics in the editorial if it seemed suitable. Being campus-focused does not require living in a vacuum; Eugene’s got enough of that already.

-In my day, we actually started the putting-of-”Commentator”-in-small-caps thing, so it wasn’t always so.

-In my day, we tried quite a few new things with the layout, and Ed Madrid did a lot of innovation before that. Change was good!

There, my young friend.

Happy birthday Ian!

By: Michael G.

Michael G. — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:06:29 +0000

Hey, happy birthday.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:57:43 +0000

Oh, and since it’s my birthday I’m going to go get some food and drinks and try to forget about InDesign. Cheers.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:56:36 +0000

New PDF uploaded
-fixed most pdf problems
-Small caps and various copy editing errors fixed.
-The editorial should have read “libertarian,” not “Libertarian.”
-I think the new page numbers look better than the old ones.
-Body copy is Times 10pt, which as far as I know is the same version the OC has always used. The difference may be that past issues have been made with TrueType fonts whereas his issue was made with OpenType/Truetype fonts. Their appearance should be identical.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:14:44 +0000

Complaints:

Oregon Commentator or Commentator always go in small caps. Technically small caps Utopia Regular, but at least do the small capping.

We are not a Libertarian publication, we are a libertarian publication. There is a difference, remember that.

Editorial/Articles are to end with the OC dingbat at the bottom of the page.

What the hell is with the new page numbers? Seriously, what the hell. It looks like a zine.

Too Many Goddamned Fonts.

What’s with the bloody national politics stuff in the editorial?

You need to down-sample the dpi in the .pdf images. It’s hanging me up, and I’m on a spakin’ new box with broadband.

Did you change the body copy, if so, why? I may have to cut you for that.

Why is the tracking so loose?

Things cost more than they used to.

MAATLOOOOOOCKKK!

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:31:41 +0000

Check the .pdf settings.

I like the cover, haven’t read it yet. Will complain later.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:50:24 +0000

Problems:
-Oof, the masthead isn’t entirely accurate.
-Krugman’s date is 199? instead of 1998.
-”Leviathan” is misspelled in editorial
-the pdf output screwed up some of the elements, making some black illustrations lighter than other
-the pdf output screwed up the title for Michael’s piece… the lines were PERFECT in InDesign, damnit.
Thankfully, Spew is still hilarious and Krugman is still crazy.