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ARRL drops the other shoe on print version of QST
On 1/12/2013 3:20 PM, Patty Winter wrote:
In , Bill wrote: From what I've seen of the online edition, it looks like the pdf file that was sent to the printer to make the paper-and-ink version. The articles are shown in page-image format, which means that each page appears as it would if I were holding the paper-and-ink version open, but with the lower 2/3 of each page obscured. Hmmm, I'm not seeing any obscuration. Is it some kind of shaded gray that's covering the bottom part of the page? No, it's simply not on my screen, as if I were trying to read the printed version with a book on top of the magazine, covering the lower 2/3 of the page. Oh, and to be clear, are you talking about the Nxtbook version of QST on the ARRL website, or did you find a way to actually download a PDF file? Oftentimes, these flashy online digital magazines let you download a PDF version, but all I see with this one is an option to run their software on your computer. No thanks. :-) I'm talking about the /appearance/ of the page on my computer screen, which looks like the pdf file that most printers now ask for instead of "photo ready" paste-up copy. If you're hoping that the League will convert each issue to HTML format, complete with nice layout and graphics, I wouldn't hold my breath on that. The reason companies choose solutions such as Nxtbook is because it's a lot easier and cheaper than redoing the layout in HTML. I'm hoping that the league spends the money needed to make the online edition of QST viable. I don't care if it's done in HTML, or sent as a pdf, or by other means. A page formatted to be easy-to-read in a "tall and narrow" format such as a magazine page simply doesn't work in a "short and wide" format such as my computer screen. 73, Bill, W1AC -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly) |
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