So, I went to move my 1994 stamps from my White Ace album to my new Mystic Heirloom Stamp Album. Then I hit page 701 and the crane se-tenant. Every place I have seen this stamp, it's shown as a horizontal pair se-tenant. Mystic, in their infinite wisdom, made it a vertical pair. Conveniently, when you buy the se-tenant from them, it comes as a vertical pair. Well, I wasn't going to buy new stamps for their benefit. Especially since I already had it in a mount all nice and ready to go.
So, what's a guy to do?
Well. whip out the old desktop publishing app and crank out your own replacement sheet that has the stamp positioned as it was meant to be.
So, if you're in the same boat, find some nice cream colored paper and print out this PDF double sided for a drop in replacement for pages 701 and 702.
You can find the file here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2301411/Page_701_Hack.pdfThe file is 25 MB because I scanned the image on the back of the page at 1200 DPI. I have not had a chance to scale down the size and see if I can get good quality at a decent size.
Hopefully someone besides me will find this page useful.
As I continue to hack the Mystic Heirloom album, I will continue to make pages like this and will make PDFs available. At some point when I get a web site up, I will make all the Scribus source files available so others can hack their own pages.
Posted 09/11/2011 3:21 pm
