Thursday, August 5, 2004
Oatmeal, fruit smoothie. I just missed the 9:10 AM bus, and the 9:30 AM bus didn't show up, so I got to work very late. Grrr! Designed the cdrom label. Had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to make a placed EPS file with black artwork overprint black in InDesign. InDesign by default overprints black only for native objects—it was very unclear how to make an imported object overprint. I eventually worked around the problem by copying and pasting the object from Illustrator into InDesign. InDesign then sees it as a native object, but you lose any updating features you'd have gotten with linking. Some documents I found said that you should set overprint settings in Illustrator, but I couldn't figure out how to make that work for an EPS or AI file saved from Illustrator—all the stuff I found talked about outputting (printing) directly from Illustrator. Lunch at SBC Park—the dean bought everyone tickets to a baseball game today. Visited Jesse, met Jeff. Jesse had just gotten a bed from someone down the street and moved it into his bedroom and rearranged furniture. Watched Simpsons: Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming. Dinner at Blue with Patrick: chicken pot pie for me, meatloaf for Patrick, 1 iced tea: $24.49 before tip. Visited with Brian and Kelly who told us about their bike tour and other travels in Europe while making and eating dinner (something with meat-substitute chorizo). Chatted with Nico, who came over shortly before we left. He's doing stand-up comedy now! Funniest thing Brian said tonight (paraphrasing)—we'd been talking about heirloom tomatoes: "I'd rather eat broken glass than a regular tomato."