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- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:58 pm
- Forum: Information General
- Topic: Unlimited, Summer, 4th Edition and French/German Test Prints
- Replies: 93
- Views: 132820
Test prints are for aesthetic reasons, to see how text looks in borders, to see how redesigned textboxes or frames look like. That's why the textless and test printing ones do away with text -- they're purely aesthetic. The french/german ones simply need to test for how text actually looks like in ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:44 pm
- Forum: Information General
- Topic: Unlimited, Summer, 4th Edition and French/German Test Prints
- Replies: 93
- Views: 132820
Textless test prints
I was encouraged to drop by. :) Edgar happened after I'd handed over the job of Production Manager to Tom Wanerstrand. However, I might be able to provide some clues. Magic cards were originally created in two layers. The border and artwork were a high resolution TIFF file. The type and symbols were...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:27 pm
- Forum: Item Value and Availability
- Topic: If a "Proposal" card became available for purchase
- Replies: 62
- Views: 54510
Proposal background info.
Does nobody Google any more?
There's a pretty good explanation of how the card was actually created at http://howell.seattle.wa.us/games/MtG/Proposal.html
There's a pretty good explanation of how the card was actually created at http://howell.seattle.wa.us/games/MtG/Proposal.html
- Mon May 08, 2006 9:58 pm
- Forum: Standard Magic Products
- Topic: Cold Case.What's the Real Truth about C.E. and I.C.E. Sets.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16181
Corroboration.
For what it's worth, my memory was that we'd done 10k CE's, and 5k ICE's. I don't see any reason to not take Peter's (indirect) information about having been shorted on the CEs, though, so sounds pretty likely to me.
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:22 am
- Forum: Website Concerns
- Topic: Proposal: what changed?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10578
Re: Proposal: what changed?
Good heavens. I hadn't realized that he hadn't made those changes until now. :)
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:00 am
- Forum: Website Concerns
- Topic: Proposal: what changed?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10578
Proposal: what changed?
The front of the web site says that info about the Proposal card changed. So, what got updated?
- Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:10 am
- Forum: Searching, Buying, Paying, Shipping, Storing
- Topic: "Fire-proof safes" not as safe as you th
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11458
Re: "Fire-proof safes" not as safe as yo
Well, viewed, yes. I was more curious about whether or not it was interesting or useful. <shrug>
- Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:03 am
- Forum: Searching, Buying, Paying, Shipping, Storing
- Topic: "Fire-proof safes" not as safe as you th
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11458
Re: "Fire-proof safes" not as safe as yo
Hmm. Now, I realize that a lack of follow-up posts doesn't mean nobody read the original post. It might be definitive. Or boring.
Did anybody read the original post? Did you find the information useful, or is this, in the end, just a way for me to boost my post count? ::)
Did anybody read the original post? Did you find the information useful, or is this, in the end, just a way for me to boost my post count? ::)
- Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:54 am
- Forum: Item Value and Availability
- Topic: PSA rated cards
- Replies: 42
- Views: 35655
Re: PSA rated cards
Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, despite my care in calling first to find out PSA's policy regarding signatures, I still got three of the six I sent in returned ungraded. Whoever I talked to on the phone in December was simply wrong; they won't grade cards w/signatures unless th...
- Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:22 am
- Forum: Promotional and Unofficial Magic Items
- Topic: Life Size Statues from WotC Store on eBay
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15549
Re: Life Size Statues from WotC Store on eBay
The statues were auctioned off (I guess not on eBay) when the stores closed. The sculptor, Kim, is a good friend of mine. (I have some great pictures of her in the claws of the Shivan Dragon.)
Each one has to be cast, smoothed, and painted one at a time. They're not cheap to make.
Each one has to be cast, smoothed, and painted one at a time. They're not cheap to make.
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:54 am
- Forum: Member Information
- Topic: Most prized M:TG item
- Replies: 73
- Views: 75379
Re: Most prized M:TG item: l0qii's prized ad
That's a hilarious Foglio ad. Once Again, It's Wacky Trivia Time From the Dark Ages of Magic! The goofy character answering the phone has a name. It is perfectly obvious to me that Phil based his artwork on a guy named T. Brian Wagner, who Phil knew, and was in Customer Service at the time. [And, as...
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:48 am
- Forum: Member Information
- Topic: Most prized M:TG item
- Replies: 73
- Views: 75379
Re: Most prized M:TG item
Most prized items? Ahem. Proposal, duh. The original artwork for Twiddle. Old rule books, 'cause they have my name it it. Some extra Xerox masters for Arabian Nights playtest cards. Some of my WotC business cards that say "Lim-Dûl, Necromancer" A couple of Wizards of the Coast stock certificates. (...
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:25 am
- Forum: Searching, Buying, Paying, Shipping, Storing
- Topic: I just won a beta MOX JET for $75 US!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 32808
Re: I just won a beta MOX JET for $75 US!
mintcollector said "Some sellers tend to steal artwork from other auctions (which I wish they would make illegal)"
Actually, they already did. If I scan one of my boosters and post it, that image is mine, protected by U.S. Copyright Law. No, I do not need to attach any little (c) to it or anything.
Section 2(b) of Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Act
says that any person who infringes a copyright “willfully . . . by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, of 1 or more copies, of 1 or more copyrighted works†is subject to the criminal penalties set forth in Title 18. For stealing eBay images, it'd be a misdemeanor.
The infringer does need to act “willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.†No problem there.
Now: am I actually going to take the time to sue some jerkweed who steals my images? Nope. I am smart enough to not only know how to do it, but how to not have my stuff stolen in the first place. <grin> That's why, after the first couple of auctions, I redid all my auction artwork to include my name in semitransparent lettering across the object for sale.
It is illegal. It's just not very enforceable, until/unless people doing auctions get a bit smarter about protecting their images.
Actually, they already did. If I scan one of my boosters and post it, that image is mine, protected by U.S. Copyright Law. No, I do not need to attach any little (c) to it or anything.
Section 2(b) of Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Act
says that any person who infringes a copyright “willfully . . . by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, of 1 or more copies, of 1 or more copyrighted works†is subject to the criminal penalties set forth in Title 18. For stealing eBay images, it'd be a misdemeanor.
The infringer does need to act “willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.†No problem there.
Now: am I actually going to take the time to sue some jerkweed who steals my images? Nope. I am smart enough to not only know how to do it, but how to not have my stuff stolen in the first place. <grin> That's why, after the first couple of auctions, I redid all my auction artwork to include my name in semitransparent lettering across the object for sale.
It is illegal. It's just not very enforceable, until/unless people doing auctions get a bit smarter about protecting their images.
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:04 am
- Forum: Item Value and Availability
- Topic: PSA rated cards
- Replies: 42
- Views: 35655
Re: PSA rated cards
I called PSA to find out their policy on autographs. What I was told was that if it is clearly a deliberate signature (and not a scribble or other accident), then it is ignored for grading purposes. If an individual wants a PSA 9 Mint card without pen tracks, they can choose not to buy a signed PSA9...
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:55 am
- Forum: Searching, Buying, Paying, Shipping, Storing
- Topic: The sniping topic
- Replies: 58
- Views: 52607
Re: The sniping topic
<scratch head> This is very weird to me. OK, there's an auction. You want an item? Enter in the actual, honest, truly true maximum amount you'd be willing to pay for it. Now go to bed; you're done. You're now "snipe proof." If somebody snipes it, and you're all mad, that says that you didn't a...