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Andrew d’Entremont

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  1. I mentioned this in the livestream yesterday, and Pete said it shouldn't be a problem, but when I add a bunch of .CBR files to a title and try to navigate to it from another title it slows down considerably. I can go back and forth between other large titles without a problem.

    I made a short screen recording to show what I mean. Any idea why this might be happening? The media files are sitting on a SSD and I'm running with 32GB of RAM so I don't think it's a problem with my PC. 

     

  2. 6 minutes ago, Gregory Hecht said:

    Personally, even if the cover price was the same, I would recommend that the variants be tracked separately if the paper stock is different.  

    Maybe it is worth bringing this up at this week's Livestream? 

    Thanks. I'd appreciate that. I wish I could participate in the Livestream, but the timing just doesn't work for me. 

  3. I've had all the variants listed above in my collection for years and they are only now showing up as unrecognised items.

    From a collector's point of view, the kind of paper a comic is printed on makes a difference to me. I would would much rather have the glossy paper than newsprint as the glossy paper ages much better.  I know that if I bought a comic off of Atomic Avenue with the expectation that it was printed on glossy paper and instead received one printed on newsprint, I would not be happy.  

    And for what it's worth, I bought all the newsstand editions from mycomicshop.com, and they listed the newsstand and direct editions separately. 

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  4. I just ran a content update and took a look at the unrecognised items and noticed the following Savage Dragon variants were purged from the database:

    Savage Dragon, The 6/A
    Savage Dragon, The 7/A
    Savage Dragon, The 8/A
    Savage Dragon, The 10/A
    Savage Dragon, The 12/A
    Savage Dragon, The 13/A
    Savage Dragon, The 18/A

    I checked Atomic Avenue and they aren't listed there either.

    10/A and 13/A both have different covers from the regular editions, and 13/A  contains an entirely different story and art, so they definitely should be listed as variants.

    As to the rest, these are newsstand variants which feature a barcode on the cover (which the direct editions do not have), and they are also printed on newsprint paper instead of the glossy paper the direct editions are printed on. I can vouch for this as I have all of the above variants in my collection. 

    In my opinion these are significant differences and should be considered variants.

    I would really like to know the rationale behind removing them.

    Thanks! 

     

  5. I just thought I'd bump this to bring up another formatting issue I have discovered. 

    When printing an ID label for a comic which has a cover stretching across both the front and back, it prints the cover in the same aspect ratio as a regular cover, resulting in cover image that looks squashed. Would it be possible to have the cover image maintain its aspect ration when printed?

    And of course, I'd still love to see the suggestions I made in my first post implemented as well!

    Thanks! 

     

  6. Good morning gents.

    This is a very minor quibble, so if you don't have an answer it's not a big deal at all.

    I tend to upgrade as you make new versions of CB available and I've noticed that every time I upgrade my taskbar shortcut stops working afterwards. I then have to delete the  old shortcut and recreate it. It's a really simple thing to do, but I'm just wondering if there is a way to avoid this during an upgrade.

    As I said, it is not a big deal at all, but I'm just curious if it's something that can be fixed with some minor tweaking.

    Thanks!

     

  7. So it turns out that Savage Dragon #260/B has printing errors and it was recalled by the printers. They will be printing corrected versions but the cover to both will be exactly the same so I'm just wondering how should this misprint be entered into ComicBase since there are definitely copies out in the wild? Should it just be #260/C?
     

  8. I've been scanning in some covers for issues that don't have high res covers, and while in most cases ComicBase will ask me if I want to upload the bigger cover, I wasn't prompted to do so with a few issues from Elementals Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.

    I know that my cover scans are much bigger than what I have been able to download directly from ComicBase, so I'm just wondering if there is a some kind threshold in place when it comes to uploading new covers. I'm scanning everything in at 300 dpi and all the files seem to end up being in the 11MB to 12MB range. 

  9. 2 hours ago, Steven L. Dasinger said:

    Then create 1 Title, with a possible name of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation (Pocket)', and list all the others (currently, Amazon has it as 65 books) as part of a numbered series.

    I actually already created this series and uploaded it as new content. I was really hoping to keep the non-numbered TNG books under the same title as a special, similar to something like Elementals (Vol. 1) which has two special issues listed under the main title. 

  10. I'm slowly entering my paperback and hardcover novels into ComicBase and I'm not sure how to enter standalone novels that belong to a series. 

    For instance, the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel series has a number of standalone books that are novelisations of specific episodes like "Unification" or "Descent" which aren't numbered. I've attached a scan from inside the front cover of one of the novels to show you what I mean.

    I'd like to keep these standalone books as part of the series, so should I just enter them without ticking the "Part of a numbered series" checkbox? Should I select "Special Edition" for the edition?

    Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
     

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  11. Yup. As an example, I changed media type on Wizard Magazine from Comic Book to Magazine and the condition was the same, although several other fields were different, and it created a duplicate. The same thing happens when I just transfer from one title to another within the same media type. 

     

     

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