Heavens Metal Magazine

I could find the original thread but I was curious how the digitization of the back issues was going g/f?

Thank you for asking !
It's going very good. Working like a madman... keep running into small snags that take up a lot of time.
Currently I'm 3/4 finished, but the last few issues to work on have up to 80 pages per magazine (compared to the earlier issues with only 20 to 40 pages)
The process is a time-killer:
I recieved most of the issues in a combined PDF file, I had to split the 1 file into individual pages, then in order to edit each page, I have to convert the PDF into a TIFF extension. From there I load every page of an issue and edit away. Then I save the edited page back to TIFF only to combine the whole thing back into 1 PDF file again.
My current problem is, each issue completed turns out to be a LARGE file, ie 1.4 GB per issue... this is not going to work... so when I'm all done editing, I'll cross that bridge. Cuz I don't want to reduce the quality of the files, but I'm stuck with huge Gigabytes !

This is my latest dilemma. I can pretty much fix anything.. .but when it's beyond repair, I have to re-create it. Sometimes it's no problem, like this sticker:
B E F O R E :

A F T E R :

But THIS sticker is right over a guitar and there's no way I can re-create what's behind it... at least in a reasonable time.
So I got someone who's gonna scan this cover for me again without the sticker... thank GOD !!

I'm glad to see you are having fun with this (even with the challenges) certainly a labor of love.

It was fun about 2 months ago... now I'm ready to be done
I always bite off more than I can chew... and this meal was a lot bigger than I forseen...

I'm not surprised. At least you don't have to worry about returning your advance check it if takes you 12+ months to finish.

My wife reminds me not to complain since #1. I got myself into this and #2. It's a labor of love and I never can know what God's got planned for this... He may reach some through these digital "reprints" (Doug has a lot of great evangelical messages throughout these old issues)

So the price on the magazine is $2.50 but the Christian Book Store sold it for $5.50...I guess it beats ebay ...

Maybe since the files are so large each file should be made available in a Zip folder that people would download and open.
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that's not a bad idea. however, we have another person involved in this project and he's spent a lot of time creating menus and formats for a ROM disk. Not to mention that it would be a lOT of downloading just for 1 issue.
I'm really not sure how the final work will be made available.
I suppose there could be a way to reduce and compress enough to where the entire 10 years of issues could fit on 3 or 4 DVD-Roms.
I guess I need some expert recommendations on this part of the project.
I've obviously saved all the files. Unedited PDF, edited TIFFs and completed combined PDFs.
So if there's a way to compress the TIFFs or the PDFs without losing much quality, this would be a solution.

OMG, I am so bummed !!! I know better !! I had about 5 pages open in my editing program and had them all worked up and ready to go, but I hadn't hit save yet !!! (you know the rest) Frickin laptop crashed. THAT set me back a 1/2 hour's work... what a nurtz !!!
Oh well, when it's a labor of love, time doesn't matter - time to back up and re-work these pages.... sigh.