About ads, posters and Larisa’s secret
About ads
I have recently received a few complaints about annoying ads on sandraandwoo.com, in particular from readers visiting the website on their Android mobile phone. I want to apologize for that, but you have to understand that it’s not always easy for me to fix this kind of problem, especially without further information about the ad. Every user, including myself, sees different ads! I have already limited our pool of ad agencies to those who offer the possibility to block certain kinds of ads (and domains) in their administration panel. Please write an e-mail to novil@gmx.de or write a post in this forum thread if you had a problem with an ad. The comment section of a comic is not the right place for such complaints.
If sandraandwoo.com is not the only the website suddenly showing popup ads or other annoying ads, it might also be possible that your Android phone is compromised. Android phones are gradually becoming the number one target for viruses and malware, including malicious apps tinkering with the web browser.
About posters
I know that there are around 20 readers waiting for their free posters. Last week, I was finally able to take the time to prepare everything, at least I thought so. I ordered and received the mailing tubes and prepared the image files. However, it turned out that the print shop wants PDF files and I’m currently a bit puzzled how to create them. I need:
2 images on an A1 print, 5 images on an A3 print, 3 images on an A4 print.The images should be enlarged (or shrinked) to fill the format, including a small white border around them.There should be no quality loss.
I looked for PNG to PDF converters but found nothing that matches my requirements since the PDFCreator is bundled with malware. So maybe I will just use Word. However, I’m afraid that will become a tedious task. But it’s probably still faster than using LaTeX… Well, if someone could give me a tip in the comment section I’d appreciate it. If someone could do the whole conversion for me that would be even better. If you’re eager to help, write an e-mail to novil@gmx.de.
Update: I used Scribus as recommended by a few readers. Thank you for all your suggestions!
About Larisa’s secret
Many of you wonder if Larisa’s “big secret” is related to her behavior in [0126] Secrets. While I don’t want to talk about that in particular, it certainly appears odd that I haven’t written a story arc about Larisa’s background in all these years since [0126] Secrets was published. The reason for that is that I started to like the story arc that I had originally planned less and less and eventually decided to ditch it. I’m sure that many of you would not have liked that story arc or even hated it as well. I can therefore only ask for your patience until I’m able to come up with a story arc of the usual quality you can expect from Sandra and Woo.
google chrome can actually save files to PDF through the print menu, and open most image files. I haven’t tested it with PNG files, but its worth a shot.
Imagemagicks convert command line tool is awesome for this kind of task. (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php)
Send me an email if you need help with it. 😉
You should try Scribus 🙂 It’s free program for publishing and you can choose quality in with you’re exporting your file 🙂
@ Michael Schaller: He’s right. If you haven’t looked at imagemagick yet, you should. Simple things are simple, no worries! And what it can do is … magick.
I just had a good experience creating a PDF for one of the images with Scribus. I hope it works for all the other images just as well.
If anyone has issues with an ad, it would probably be a good idea to use one of the many free browser extensions that allow you to take a snapshot of a webpage. I use Awesome Screenshot, and highly recommend it.
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