23.04.10 - Final Touches to Publication and Evaluation

Haven't uploaded anything to the blog this week as I've been concentrating on finishing my publication for the deadline, so am uploading it all now.

The booklet came together really well. I had some problems in that the printers were booked up all week, so I had to print it out in the library. This meant that there was a white border around all of my pages, particularly problematic as I had a few double page spreads which consist of one pcture stretched across both pages. To combat this, I pasted the image onto each page and cropped and resized them until they fitted together when printed out.

I test printed a few pages which I was unsure of the quality of. The 'Zandra Rhodes' pages' background came out extremely blurred. I sorted this problem by making the image 1/4 of the size and pasting it 4 times, rotating each one until each edge matched up. The image still had a slightly lower resolution than I had wanted, but as it was mostly covered by images and text, I didn't worry too much about it.

I had quite a large problem with my two presentation boards from project 1. Neither of them would open in their Adobe pdf format to print. I tried opening the jpeg version and the original Adobe Illustrator version, but neither of them would convert to Adobe pdf, or print as they were. This meant that I was unable to print out my Project 1 boards for submission. I will try to resolve this problem when i go into uni tomorrow.