AA:SE Cover

The whole Airbury Special Edition has been finished, and is now a 643MB PDF file on my desktop. It even has a clickable contents page (which thanks to the madness of InDesign, manages to work and not work at the same time).

What's 'Special' about it? The artwork for the 2007 material has been dusted off. All the speech balloons now have the same font. Snippets of dialogue have been re-jigged. Pages appear in a different order and the story still makes sense. That line about Facebook causing erectile dysfunction has been taken out.

And it's one hundred and thirty-flippin'-one pages long!

And it has a better front cover, which you can see below. It now has a picture of page 1606, which I thought is a better drawing of the four main characters. If you don't disagree, don't not tell me about it.

STENDEC.

UPDATE 9/9/10: Okay, no clickable contents page now. You'd think setting up nine hyperlinks in an InDesign file would be easy. Far from it. You fart around setting up the links. Wait 5 minutes for it to make the PDF. One link doesn't work. Open up ID again and fix it. 5 more minutes. Check PDF. This time the first 4 links don't work but the other 5 do. Open up ID again. Correct all links. Another five minutes. Check PDF. This time 6 of them work and 3 don't. Make one last PDF leaving the bloody hyperlinks out. Somehow this increases the file size by ten meg.

How Adobe can call their software 'world class' with a straight face is beyond me!