Hi Robert I can’t activate your subscription.

You need a subscriber number to do this.

When you purchased the digital editions you should have been enailed a subscription number.

regards david

 

Well Robert all I can say is “aren’t you lucky”. I’ve been trying to get access to the back issues for a couple of weeks with no luck. E-mails to customer service go unanswered or worse still just put off. I’m pretty well fed up with this outfit.

Owen

Hi Owen

Email me direct at

Then we can get it sorted.

regards david

Hi Robert

Its a paper subscription that I,m on so I got my subscription number by e-mail from them. I’ve sent an e-mail to David as requested above so we’ll see.

Hi Circlip

There are more issues then just the website, A long story I’m not going into here the topics have been put forward on other threads by other people with no results so I’m pretty sure I’m not doing the management an injustice. It seems that the only one working there is David, he can’t do it all.

Hi,

 

Re The ‘free’ Digital Issues of MEW available to subscribers. 

 

Today when I visited this section there was only one page of issues (back to no 146).  I’m sure that there used to be three pages back to around issue 122 or thereabouts, or am I suffering early onset dementia?. 

 

Have these other pages been removed? Or is there just a problem in accessing them and will access be restored or is there a new policy on access we haven’t been informed of?   Has anyone else had a problem accessing the ‘free’ issues?

 

Terry

When I subscribe to the Archive edition I was able to view the magazine and print out stories that could be read whilst not sitting infront of the computer. I have recently logged on to find that the ‘eMag Creater’ i.e viewer is now different and I am no longer able to print these out.

 

 

Posted By Luca Rossi on 28/05/2010 09:18:29.

 

 

Hi Luca,

 

– download the free open source software “PDFcreator” and install on your computer
– open it’s PDF Print Monitor window
– go to the ME digital archive and open any magazine
– print the cover page. A window PDFFCreator 0.9.9 will pop up.DO NOT hit the “Save” button, hit the “Wait-Collect” button instead. The printed page will appear as a line entry in the PDF Print Monitor window
– skip uninteresting advertisement pages, print all pages with real content, each printed page will show as an added line in the PDF Print Monitor Window. I found I have to wait until a page is loaded, before printing it, otherwise the eMAGcreator software will hang up.
– when finished, press the menu icon “Combine All” on top of the “PDF Print Monitor” window. The program now takes some time to compile all pages that you printed into one single document.
– when finished, press the menu icon for “Print”.

 

You now have created a .pdf file that contains the WHOLE MAGAZINE (less the advertiser pages if you choose to skip them. It does not take much longer than it did with the old reader. But you cannot let it print in the background and do something else, you have to be there and press “print” for every page you wanted. On the plus side, the .pdf files created are smaller and the resolution just as good as before, and you can skip the useless advertiser pages. Moral of the story for the magazine management: where there is a will, there is always a workaround. Especially when they try to change rules less than halfway into a subscription, which was not a fair thing to do. They should be happy that they can sell us the old magazines for a second time as a digital edition. Expecting us to pay once more for every year we enjoy to look at the digital edition is just pushing it a little too far for me. I honestly think it will not work, because it makes us all feel ripped off.

Chris

But how many have been ticked off by the bait and switch method employed by MHS.

 

We all had a chance to download one demo copy of the mag to see what you were getting before you paid.

 

In my case I liked what I saw and paid up promptly, in a few months time my yearly subscription will expire and because of the new Emag software I will not be renewing, just my take on this.

 

I do have all the paper copies from issue 1 and have religiously bought them but having access to the digital copies AS PERSONAL PDF’s when I don’t have access to internet connection is worth the £29 annual payment.

 

Chris’s method will not work for me other than a few pages because Flash causes my computer to run slowly with an error message saying a script is not working on the page and after stacking about 8 or 9 pages it crashes the computer.

 

I only have one computer that will run Flash as I flatly refuse to have any Adobe software on the other machines as they are complete resource hogs.

If the original software would have required Flash I would definitely NOT have bought it.

 

All that will happen now is that previously downloaded copies of the mag as PDF’s will do the rounds as bootleg copies because of the problem, something they are working hard to  stop.

 

 

The best way to attend to this problem is to sell the DVD’s at reasonable cost.

MHS answer to this is that they will finish up on Ebay but after a few block attempts it will stop, they did it with JRE’s yahoo articles.

Proof of this is the mag’s that are on DVD at the moment like Fine Woodworking, it’s not on rapid share and not on Ebay

 

John S.

Hi everybody with a MEW Digital Archive gripes. Is that true it only goes to 146 ? I thought it was just one of the many problems I always get on MEW website. I payed me money but can only get to 146 onward and I’ve got all them on paper issues. When I have a look at the ones you can get, it takes for ever to get a page first its a plain white and you wait ages for it to come up if I wanted to see the whole issue it would take hours.  The whole website is like this some times it takes 4-5 minutes just to get started, and trying to go from item to another some times is impossiable. Even this letter is a second attempt , yesterday I hit  “Add Posting”  the ‘indicator’ went around and around and in the end  the the computer window came up “Window Explorer cannot read this website” I do not have these problems with other advertised websites (Chronos, ArcEuroTrading ect ect,). I know Australia is a longway from Orpington and my computer is a bit old but there must be somene out there who can find an answer to these problems.  FRED.  

Which Issue John?? 23, 57 or 88.05.63.01A

AFAIK there are two separate sections:

 

– The recent issues which you have access to automatically if you subscribe to the paper copy of the magazine. This is approximately the last 20 issues and is a “sliding window” – i.e. when a new issue gets posted, the oldest is transferred to the archive section. Currently I see this as running from 146 – 164

 

– The archive section which consists of all the issues from Issue-1 to the issue preceding the recent issues section. The archive section is by an additional subscription (although I believe you still have to be a paper copy subscriber). Currently I see this as running from 1 – 145 (with also Issue-163 tacked on the front but that seems to be an error).

 

You can get to the links to both of these (assuming you have appropriate subscriptions and are logged in) by clicking on “Extra” in the title bar then scrolling down the left hand “Digital Archive” column and clicking on “Go to digital archive”

Posted by Robert George on 01/06/2010 15:49:08:

 

Strange …. I’m seeing both links. To be clear, this is the page I’m seeing both links on:

 

 http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/members/digitaleditions/

 

I think the Issue-163 being in the archives is probably just an error. Someone has moved the wrong issue there.