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7 months ago
Just a heads-up--I might not be able to post the comic here on Friday. My Internet-capable computer is in the shop getting an upgrade to its guts so we can put Win 11 on it (Please don't ask me any computer questions; I am so illiterate that when asked "What kind of computer do you have?" I reply, "A...black one?")
Anyway, the base page I use to create the comic is on that unit. I do have the individual cartoons on a data key, and could probably recreate the base page's aspect ratio (it's a little over 800 px wide but I forgot how high...) and put it together on my other desktop that runs Photoshop, which hasn't been connected to the internet for about ten years (it still runs XP.)
We were expecting to get the computer back today, but when we plugged it in, it did not come on. At all. Even after fiddling with it for ten minutes.
By that time the repair shop had closed, so I need to call them in the morning.
I'm hoping it's just something simple to fix, like the tech forgot to attach a wire when he put the guts back into the case.
In any event, if we can't get it up and working, the comic won't be able to go up on Friday.
I apologize in advance.
EDIT: Well, duh me--I clicked on last week's page here and got the page size (800x999.) So maybe I can do the page after all!
Anyway, the base page I use to create the comic is on that unit. I do have the individual cartoons on a data key, and could probably recreate the base page's aspect ratio (it's a little over 800 px wide but I forgot how high...) and put it together on my other desktop that runs Photoshop, which hasn't been connected to the internet for about ten years (it still runs XP.)
We were expecting to get the computer back today, but when we plugged it in, it did not come on. At all. Even after fiddling with it for ten minutes.
By that time the repair shop had closed, so I need to call them in the morning.
I'm hoping it's just something simple to fix, like the tech forgot to attach a wire when he put the guts back into the case.
In any event, if we can't get it up and working, the comic won't be able to go up on Friday.
I apologize in advance.
EDIT: Well, duh me--I clicked on last week's page here and got the page size (800x999.) So maybe I can do the page after all!
In my case one of the 'upgrades' is a new drive, this way if the upgrade fails I can just pop in the old drive and I'm back where I was before things started changing.
Good luck, and I hope it's something as easy as reconnecting something that shook loose when it was being moved.
Those were the days.
Vix
I had a few things I had to do here at the farm--like unload a delivery of hay, and take a dead ewe to the vet clinic for a necropsy--so I didn't think I'd have time to also run out to the repair shop.
I did manage to make up a page for Friday's update just in case.