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ARRL drops the other shoe on print version of QST
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:35:38 EST, Bill Horne
wrote: I just got the email from the ARRL: "QST's Stacking Up? Get Digital QST Only". My only experience with reading a magazine electronically was a few years ago when World Radio stopped paper publication, CQ bought it, and published a PDF version on their web page (free for a while, they charge for it now). I downloaded a couple of the free issues. The problem I had was that I don't have contiguous blocks of time to read an entire issue at once. And there was no way to bookmark in the PDF file where I left off. With a paper magazine, I can stop reading any time I want, put a piece of paper at the point I stopped, and then a day or so later resume where I left off. Sometimes it takes me more than a month to read an issue. Also, when I have a doctor's appointment, I can take the paper copy with me to read while waiting my turn. (Yes, I could do that with an iPad or similar mobile device, but only if I had one, which I don't). Also, I bring my recent past issues of QST and CQ to the VE license exams sessions which I run, and hand them out to newly-minted hams. Can't do that with the online versions. Dick Grady, AC7EL |
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ARRL drops the other shoe on print version of QST
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Dick Grady AC7EL wrote: My only experience with reading a magazine electronically was a few years ago when World Radio stopped paper publication, CQ bought it, and published a PDF version on their web page (free for a while, they charge for it now). I downloaded a couple of the free issues. The problem I had was that I don't have contiguous blocks of time to read an entire issue at once. And there was no way to bookmark in the PDF file where I left off. I don't have the PDF files you write about, but if they are standard PDF files and if you use Adobe Reader, at least on a Mac when you re-open a PDF file if you have made the right Preference choices for Adobe Reader the file will open to the very same page you were looking at when you closed the file. Perhaps Windows machines behave differently. In Adobe Reader Preferences, select the "Documents" category and click the "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" choice. Then the same page will show up that you were looking at when you closed a PDF document. You just have to make this preference choice once, and then it will hold for all PDF documents you look at in the future. I've been using PDF files and Adobe Reader ever since they first became available, and in particular during the past ten years or so while doing pre-publication accuracy checking for John Wiley, Inc. of mathematics textbook files written by others. That's ever since Wiley realized that it would be easier for me to download a PDF file than for them to ship 100 pages of paper or so per chapter by UPS from New Jersey to southwestern Canada, and for me to ship marked pages back to them. (I had to laugh when they e-mailed me and asked "Do you know what a PDF file is, and can you open them?" I had been using them for years and years before that.) The ability to go back to the same point in a manuscript where I left off reading the night before has been essential. And being able to search for a word or two rather than to scan visually through 100 paper pages until I found it has been essential also. But the 27 inch screen in front of me does help. As to ancient eyes and ease of reading, my 77+ year old eyes manage pretty well. The 27 inch screen does help! But when away from home I make do with a 13 inch screen on our laptop, and it's OK. With Adobe Reader you can choose whatever magnification ratio you want. One strong suggestion: If you use Adobe Reader, disable JavaScript for it, again in the Preferences. (There is a "Javascript" item in the Preference Categories list.) Frequently Adobe's implementation of Javascript has opened up entry points for malware. They'll find this out, cure it with an upgrade to Adobe Reader, and then a new entry way will be found by the bad guys. I just permanently disable Javascript in my copy of Adobe Reader. David, ex-W8EZE -- David Ryeburn To send e-mail, change "netz" to "net" |
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ARRL drops the other shoe on print version of QST
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:40:52 EST, David Ryeburn
wrote: I don't have the PDF files you write about, but if they are standard PDF files and if you use Adobe Reader, at least on a Mac when you re-open a PDF file if you have made the right Preference choices for Adobe Reader the file will open to the very same page you were looking at when you closed the file. Perhaps Windows machines behave differently. In Adobe Reader Preferences, select the "Documents" category and click the "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" choice. Then the same page will show up that you were looking at when you closed a PDF document. You just have to make this preference choice once, and then it will hold for all PDF documents you look at in the future. This setting is in the Windows version, also. It was unchecked. Once I checked it, PDF files open again where I left off. Thanks for the tip! One strong suggestion: If you use Adobe Reader, disable JavaScript for it, again in the Preferences. (There is a "Javascript" item in the Preference Categories list.) Frequently Adobe's implementation of Javascript has opened up entry points for malware. They'll find this out, cure it with an upgrade to Adobe Reader, and then a new entry way will be found by the bad guys. I just permanently disable Javascript in my copy of Adobe Reader. Good idea. Done. Dick Grady, AC7EL |
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