Still working…

…Finally got the hard-copy Transit off to the printers. Still have to sort out the web version, but that’s just mostly a matter of formatting; I’ve got another ten days or so for it and I can get it done in an afternoon.
The hard-copy had to go off a little early, and this morning was a real panic. I was an article short – one of my regulars hadn’t sent in anything. (He had a reason for it, but I won’t go into that here; it’s enough to say that my telephone conversation with him left me slightly upset for the evening.) Anyway, the wonderful Jenni Harte stepped in with extra material, and I also made good use of Paul Newman’s cartoons.
Of course, getting it all laid out wasn’t the end of it. I then had to convert it into a PDF for emailing. First, the program’s PDF converter refused to embed the cover title font, even though I’d already checked that it would. So I had a last-minute redo of the magazine cover with a more aceptable font. Then the software refused to do the conversion. Thirty minutes trawling tech-help forums suggested a couple of answers; another twenty minutes of fiddling with the program settings eventually solved it.
So it’s finally been emailed to the printer, in good time. Huge sigh of relief, and every finger crossed.

But i can’t relax – I now have to get on with the Elfin Diary!
Once that’s out of the way, I can do something about the business/creative project that’s buzzing around in my brain.