Thread:Ultranova17/@comment-5230978-20140121122350/@comment-5230978-20140122230352

Ultranova17 wrote: I'll think about continuing it. The problem is the PDFs are a huge amount of work to make sure everything is updated and formatted correctly.

Yes, I know how it is. Some months ago I somehow ended up becoming a fansubber and even in a 24 minutes episode there are a lot of chances of committing an error or a typo, so I imagine that for a 200 or so pages text file it's even worse. Anyway, the volumes 12 and 13 were reuploaded with a better traslation some months ago, right? And if I remeber right you guys started the retranslation of the whole series. Couldn't you just progressively and calmly upload the proofread PDF files, volume by volume, when the retranslation will be completed? If it would require too much time to modify the PDFs, or to reaupload them, or some other kind of problems, I could do it for you (e.g. you send me the proofread translation of a volume, I modify it and then I send it to you for the upload, or I ulpoad it myself). I could even do it for an incomplete proofread volume, chapter by chapter (e.g. vol 1 with the retranslated chapter 1 and so on), until we end up having a complete retranslated volume. Well, to tell the truth, I don't actually know how to modify PDF files or how to upload them on mediafire, but as said before I ended up becoming a fansubber and I never though it to be possible, so I can just learn. If you send me links of some good guides (if you would help me or even directly teach me it would be even better) I don't think there would be so much problem. How about it?

Ultranova17 wrote: That and I don't want people using old PDFs, since they might get confused by an outdated translation term or something, and that's something the PDF generator can do well, since it'll always have the most updated translations.

Yes, the translations are better, but the files created by the PDF generator aren't bereft of flaws, both aesthetic and functional. To make a comparison with subbed episodes, PDFs you uploaded till now are speedsubbed (but still good) 720p/1080p 10bit episodes, whereas PDFs of the PDF generator are incomplete (actually) qualitysubbed 480p 8bit episodes. If, as suggested above, the retranslated volumes will be uploaded, you'll offer "qualitysubbed 720p/1080p 10bit" PDFs, and if necessary even some v2, v3 etc. at a later time.

Sorry about the long post, but I just wanted to better explain.