CAR - new cover

[CKorfmann]

I didn't include it for two reasons...

I was just kidding, thus the  .

[Whaleyland]

Okay, Matt, here's the updated cover. I fixed a number of the issues I addressed on it, including adding River I and CS&C to the areas beside the A&M. I also tinkered around and got the top-right corner of the base game image fixed. I forgot to add the shadow to the Carcassonne logo, so added that and also added a glow to all the images except the base game's. It is designed to fit perfectly centered on your Pages document within the box allocated for the cover. It will need to be stretched, but that's because Pages shrinks the document, not because it is too small. I designed it to fit your image pixel-for-pixel, although I think I am off by one pixel on the bottom. I'd recommend placing the image in the top-left corner of your Pages box and dragging the image from the bottom-right corner until the dragon's wing is butting against the right-side wall. That's what I did on the preview two days ago.

If there are any problems anyone sees with it, just post it here and I will be happy to try and correct them. Otherwise, I'm calling this done!

[mjharper]

Cool. The only problem I've found - and it's entirely my fault - is that it doesn't match the page dimensions of the current CAR. The document I sent you was with the old (larger) size, and the newer CAR uses B5. So the image is a little short. Still, I've zoomed it a bit so that it fits length-wise, which at the same time means that it is now wider than the 'box' into which it should fit. But since we're abandoning the blue borders, that shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for your efforts on this!

[CKorfmann]

Well, I was kidding about the C,S&C, but it looks good.  Good job Whaley!

[Whaleyland]

Cool. The only problem I've found - and it's entirely my fault - is that it doesn't match the page dimensions of the current CAR. The document I sent you was with the old (larger) size, and the newer CAR uses B5. So the image is a little short. Still, I've zoomed it a bit so that it fits length-wise, which at the same time means that it is now wider than the 'box' into which it should fit. But since we're abandoning the blue borders, that shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for your efforts on this!

Well if you want, I can slide all the images down a little bit. I always thought that the top was a little higher than I wanted and that the images crammed into the title header a bit more than I wanted. Send me over the Pages document for your new rules, and I will refit them in, if you'd like. I mean, if I'm going to be updating this for future expansions anyway, it wouldn't hurt. Making things bigger is never a problem. It's making them smaller that's the pain.

B5 format? What is that anyway? Is it comparable to the US Letter size finally?

Well, I was kidding about the C,S&C, but it looks good.  Good job Whaley!

I know you were joking, but you had a point and I had a gap so I took it. Heck, there IS an entry in the CAR for CS&C so I may as well include a box image for it.

[mjharper]

Well if you want, I can slide all the images down a little bit. I always thought that the top was a little higher than I wanted and that the images crammed into the title header a bit more than I wanted. Send me over the Pages document for your new rules, and I will refit them in, if you'd like. I mean, if I'm going to be updating this for future expansions anyway, it wouldn't hurt. Making things bigger is never a problem. It's making them smaller that's the pain.

If you would like to that would be excellent. I mean, it's great as it is, but if you were slightly dissatisfied anyway 

B5 format? What is that anyway? Is it comparable to the US Letter size finally?

Sorry, I meant A5. And that's half A4, or 14.82 x 20.99 cm. I think the original CAR was a custom size matching the HiG rules, but I can't remember.

[Whaleyland]

Well if you want, I can slide all the images down a little bit. I always thought that the top was a little higher than I wanted and that the images crammed into the title header a bit more than I wanted. Send me over the Pages document for your new rules, and I will refit them in, if you'd like. I mean, if I'm going to be updating this for future expansions anyway, it wouldn't hurt. Making things bigger is never a problem. It's making them smaller that's the pain.

If you would like to that would be excellent. I mean, it's great as it is, but if you were slightly dissatisfied anyway 

Sure link/email me up!

[mjharper]

Sure link/email me up!

Here you go: http://mjharper.macbay.de/CARnew-big.pages.zip

That's the very latest file with your 'stretched' cover included, and the Overview under maintenance

[Whaleyland]

Okay, here's your new cover draft. Since you are going away from the backgrounds on everything and removed the frames from the cover page, I decided to re-implement them, but in gold, to match the color of the Carcassonne title and your footer notes/page numbers. The cover looked too loose without a frame around it and, since we decided to keep continuity by keeping the gradient shift blue-white for the cover, I added the frame for further visual appeal. The image is now 100 pixels longer so just place it and size it as you like. I put it at 0.25 x 0.25 margins when I tested it, and that seemed to fit quite well, but choose your own margins, I'm just making a cover!  Thanks for letting me do this. I hope everything works and looks fine now.

[Joff]

Nice work. I like the new cover

[Scott]

I like it too. Great job!

[Novelty]

Good job.  It looks good and not "dirty" like the first pass!  I have no idea what you did, but it does look cleaner and sharper!

[Whaleyland]

I've made a slight update to the previous draft, just to reflect the fact that Carcassonne - Almanach, which included the Cathars expansion, was not the first issuance of that expansion. It was actually Spielbox Magazine 2004 Issue (4?). Therefore, I have replaced the happy little Almanach image with a less fun but more appropriate Spielbox 2004.4 image (or whatever the correct issue was, I checked when I added it). Without further ado, I present you with CAR Cover Draft 4. I hope that the new version meets with everyone's approval. If you prefer the other image, Matt, feel free to use that instead. I kept the old image on my template in case of such a decision.

[mjharper]

Awesome. Yes, the Spielbox cover is less impressive than the Almanac, but the only reason I used that in the first place was because I could scan my copy. And the overall design of the cover is great.

Many, many thanks 

[meepleater]

Wow... looks very good... the last cover was a bit all over the place but this is well ordered...