David Boddington wrote:
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>I'm not sure what the big deal is with
>the FOTD CD, that it should take up huge
>amounts of your time. Don't you simply
>drag and drop all the files you wish to
>include on to your CD burner desktop
>icon, and then make copies?
Yes, when the files are ready, that is
what I shall do. The hold-up lies in
getting the files ready. The pre-press
work, you might say. The problem is that
I saved all my sent mail in huge monthly
files, which average about 500kb in size
and contain about 300 letters each. The
FOTD's must be found amidst the trash and
gathered into new orderly files.
A second hold-up is the time required to
re-render the SF5 and SF7 images in the
standard screen-filling 800x600x256 SF6
size. Luckily, most images render in
under 1/2 hour, and I have several
machines to handle the task.
Finally, I intend on including a
considerable amount of new material on the
CD, such as a number of short stories I
have written over the past 10 years or so,
plus pictures of life around Fractal
Central, including of course, pictures of
the fractal cats.
And all this must be done in addition to
my day-to-day graphic design work. So be
patient, the CD will arrive, and the FOTD
will resume on a daily basis in the right
fractal time.
Jim M.
