Model Railways On-Line Magazine

The November edition of Model Railways On-Line Magazine is now available on our website at mrol.gppsoftware.com for download. Enjoy!

Graham Plowman

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gppsoftware
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Don't you mean:

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Nice you don't know the URL for your own website, eh! Mike in BC

Reply to
mcgray

What are you talking about, Mike?

What was wrong with mrol.gppsoftware.com, which works quite satisfactorily, & is noticeably shorter than what you gave ?

Reply to
David Biddulph

"David Biddulph" wrote

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"mrol.gppsoftware.com" is simply a domain name, without any protocol and is not clickable.

We have to assumee that it is "http:\\www....." which we should really need to do. In other words Mike was both correct and helpful

If you want a short version try this:

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BTW what is the point of having to "download" your mag, why not have the whole thing as web pages that can be read live on the site?

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Roger Jones

Roger Jones wrote:-

I quite like it that way. It can be pretty tedious reading a long publication on line also I am able to print out the entire contents in convenient A5 booklet form using Adobe Acrobat.

(kim)

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kim

Either will do.

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is what you want. It is common these days to drop the 'http://' because generally, people know to add this. Appologies if this caused a problem.

Graham Plowman

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gppsoftware

It didn't, great mag BTW.

Reply to
Chris Wilson

The reason we chose the download method is multi-fold. Firstly, we are replicating a magazine except this one you can get from the net and print print it off for yourself or read it on screen. Secondly, supplying it as a PDF means that it is in a final format and can't be changed (security). Thirdly, with web pages we would not be able to achieve the look and layout that we do - it would look awful and it wouldn't print out nicely like it does now. Fourthly, to view as web pages means you need to be online the whole time to view it. Most people want to download, disconnect and read at their leisure without being connected. We don't propose to produce it as web pages in the future.

Graham Plowman, MROL Magazine

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gppsoftware

I also like the way the magazine is, for the same reason - booklet printing. Can I make one suggestion? If the entire magazine was also available in a single PDF file, it could be printed out as a single booklet, rather than smaller lumps. Or am I missing something Acrobat (full version, not the reader) can do?

I have really only just taken notice of this magazine, and it looks like a lot of reading is coming up!

Reply to
Paul Boyd

Ignore my last post - I was missing something Acrobat (full version, not the reader) can do!

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Paul Boyd

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Fourthly, to view as web

I think you'll find that an increasing number of people are semi-permanently connected to the net these days. With the increasing use of untimed ADSL connections, there is little point in disconnecting. My machine gets turned on each morning and stays on until bedtime.

John.

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John Turner

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is more user-friendly because it shows up as a hyperlink on many machines - click on it and you're connected. With mrol.gppsoftware.com you have to copy and paste into your browser.

John.

Reply to
John Turner

All absolutely true - my PC is on and connected whilst I'm in the house! But I'd rather sit in a comfy chair in front of the fire reading a magazine than stare at a computer screen all evening as well as all day at work!!!!

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Paul Boyd

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John Dennis

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John Dennis

True, but my two newsreader programs don't see your link as a proper link unless the 'http://' is included. I had to paste it into the browser instead of just one click - just a minor thing I know, but we are all so lazy nowadays!

Interesting magazine by the way, not surprised to see the comment about Peco refusing your advertising, they are fossils there, but very pleasant fossils! :-)

I used to live in Seaton and knew some of the 'foot soldier' staff!

Reply to
Mikey K

Phil: A full version of Acrobat allows you to merge the two parts, and also rotate the landscape page to read it on screen.

Since most readers would presumably read it on screen, and most of these are wider than tall - why not produce the magazine in 'landscape' orientation?

The attributes are actually set to allow printing, copying and editing and adding notes... it was done in Microsoft Word: Issue 4: 800x600 pics.doc with PublishPDFdriver (not Acrobat Distiller) and hence, I find, has a strange font mapping. It is not tagged or optimised.

Reply to
Phil

Graham,

The document has been converted to acrobat with absolutely no security whatsoever. Pages can be freely extracted and inserted. Text can be copied which allows people to rip off your work with ease. I suggest you look again at the settings you are using and change the security settings to allow reading and printing only.

Andrew

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Andrew

No you don't. You could manually go through the links and use your browser's cached versions to read them offline later or you could use a program to mirror the site down to your computer and read it offline later.

I have to admit that I don't like that sort of stuff and prefer to print off things with a lot of text.

Rod

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Rod Furey

Talking of which... Your download page says

Whilst this may be the case for certain, intellectually challenged systems, it certainly isn't the case on mine, which will quite happily download both halves of the pub. at the same time without any of this blank browser nonsense. Maybe you could put a statement up saying what systems this would affect so that you don't mislead anyone who uses a different system.

Rod

Reply to
Rod Furey

Perhaps we who are interested in Mr. Plowman's efforts should all just be thankful for it, and quit complaining just because it isn't exactly done any particular way. I prefer to print it out, others may like just reading it off the screen, peoples systems will download it differently, etc, etc....

I anyone is not happy with it, produce one yourself.

As for me, thank you Mr. Plowman.

Jim Flynn

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Jim Flynn

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