The Mushrump

Monday, July 11, 2005

How do you appease the unappeasable?

Is that a word? Unappeasable?

I'm certain now that this book catalog shall be the death of me. Previous versions of the book catalog were rough, no doubt. But that was mostly due to Quark 6 crashing, adding pages, and generally destroying the file. This time around they're just nitpicking the hell out of everything. Out of WHITE SPACE, for heaven's sake!! WHITE SPACE!! WHO COMPLAINS ABOUT WHITE SPACE.

What I believe has happen is that I have done the impossible and made a perfect book catalog. Aside from the obvious 2-color inside, the book catalog is now perfect. The template is seamless and the powers-that-be cannot handle such perfection. They must find the flaw! So, it's white space. Before white space it was font size (at 12pt, mind you) but then they realized they had no verifiable case with font size, so they moved on to white space. Before font size, it was the lack of brand identity on the cover (which was there 3 times, but they made it an even 4.)

So, an inch of white space, occuring once every third column or so, is a major design flaw. In fact, I quote carol:
"The design and uneven amt of copy for the books creates a lot of trapped white space. This is a real design problem."

Did you catch that? A real design problem. As opposed to all those fake design problems she's been having me fix over the years. Well, CAROL, show me a way to make all the chapters and book descriptions for our craptacular, ugly-as-hell books the same length and I'll make them even.

*sigh* I will make it to August first without going grey, mark my word.

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