It's awesome! Keep it up folks!! :)

I don't think you should feel pressed to use quotes only because it's traditional in magazines. Their use is practical, not aesthetical. They're for the people who won't read the whole thing, and are most useful in long interviews. My advice would be: if you find many great quotes, highlight them, if you find none, no need for them. It's normal that articles and reviews are more uniform than interviews.

I liked it, so I voted four as there is room for improvement(The cutout on the fist page... RAWR!) and such.

Page 6 was killer also.

I liked it, but on one page the background made the text almost unreadable. :(

Two words: monitor settings. Some people have really really bad monitor settings where they set them far too dark - contrast or brightness - which will get you into trouble anywhere. I'm afraid it's not up to us to cater for those with bad settings - you'll just need to properly set your screen up and you'll be fine. I was very careful not to make the background too dark - if it's still to dark, you got your screen set up to be waaaay too dark.

IMHO it has nothing todo with how I calibrated my monitor.

page 10/11. paragraph that starts with fortunately. the word "sometimes" at 3/4 is not really sharp because of the background. I am nitpicking I know, but maybe there is room for improvement...

edit: I just checked the jpgs and it there it is alright. Guess I have different fonts in my pdf viewing program

Hmm, I suggest you don't use any of the non-Adobe viewers. People have reported other problems including text running out of the boxes. Adobe Reader is free anyway and works for Windows, Mac & Linux. I made the JPGs just in case people absolutely couldn't use Adobe Reader but other than that, there's nothing I can do.

The bug in Foxit is being fixed:

Off topic, but I don't know what's wrong with using a non-Adobe viewer... The PDF specification is public, so there's no reason why others wll get it wrong more often than Adobe.

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Finally got around to look at it. Great so far, although I really hope next one will be lot bigger.

Also, the cover is quite a mess. Just bunch of pictures stitched on the same page. Yeah yeah, they might have used the same style in the past, but its bad when Im looking at it. Or maybe you just did it wrong.

great job, folks. really enjoyed it! thanks much