Digital Issues

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi John

First issue is 21 August 2001.

regards David

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Nicholas

These two issues are missing from the archive.

I have asked for them to be added.

regards David

 

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Thank you David,

Will they ever go back to the 60’s or there abouts ?

[Eugene AynsleyParticipant @eugeneaynsley85684]

Thank you David for your advice about the 8 nunbers (but not the 1st two zero’s) when enroling in to the Digital Archive. For some unknown reason when I loaded the numbers (by coping from the emil) the last two digets constently drop off. Following your advise I manually added the last two numbers digets, saved and – I was in.

 

However I only found “Model Engineer Archive Subscription” is this correct?.

 

Also please excuse the length of the personal email I sent requesting help with my “Digital Entry” problems. I was a little fustrated (maybe a lot)

Edited By David Clark 1 on 13/08/2011 09:02:22

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

You only get the magazine you subscribe to.

If you want both you have to subscribe to both.

regards David

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

David,

Any chance of getting the printing sorted on MEW 180 ?

Print icon that’s in 179 is missing in 180.

 

Better still to save all the hassle time and expense of these reader programs why not just upload the PDF, which exists as it goes to the printer as a PDF, into the archives.

 

John S.

[TrickyParticipant @tricky]

John,

I don’t think you would be happy with the PDF file that is ent to the
printers as it will be a large file that contains hi-res images and you also
have to consider image type (CMYK v RGB) transparency, colour matching and font
information.

However I also subscribe to Autosport magazine which gives two options for
digital editions, either a Flash-based viewer (better than the MEW one) and a
down-loadable PDF file.

The PDF is about 70MB for 100 pages.

Autosport is a weekly magazine with a much larger circulation than ME and
MEW and I’m sure thay can afford to spend a lot more on their digital issues.

Richard

Better still to save all the hassle time and expense of these reader programs why not just upload the PDF, which exists

Edited By Richard Bunting on 13/08/2011 10:52:40

Edited By Richard Bunting on 13/08/2011 10:53:45

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi John

I will see if I can get the print icon on 179 removed for consistency.

PDFs are not down to me.

I am still waiting to be told who is in charge of digital issues.

regards David

 

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by David Clark 1 on 13/08/2011 11:15:03:

Hi John

I will see if I can get the print icon on 179 removed for consistency.

regards David

 

 

 

Thank you David, that will be an improvement

[TobaccoBurnerParticipant @tobaccoburner]

Posted by John Stevenson on 13/08/2011 11:26:12:

Posted by David Clark 1 on 13/08/2011 11:15:03:

Hi John

I will see if I can get the print icon on 179 removed for consistency.

regards David

 

 

 

Thank you David, that will be an improvement

Surely 179 is the only one that works in a sensible manner??

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Posted by David Clark 1 on 13/08/2011 11:15:03:

Hi John

I will see if I can get the print icon on 179 removed for consistency.

PDFs are not down to me.

I am still waiting to be told who is in charge of digital issues.

regards David

 

WHAT!!

 

This is surely a Mis-understanding!

We WANT the print facilities on all digital issues, removing it from the only magazine that it actually works on would merely exacerbate the situation.

 

Why is it so difficult to contact those who are responsible for digital issues.

I emailed Ben Rayment who is listed as being the Web Editor however I have to date not received a reply. I probably should not be surprised considering…

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Looks like there is an option in the software to allow printing when the e-mag is created.

 

Just need to find who can switch it on not off.

 

J

Edited By JasonB on 13/08/2011 20:50:42

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

As far as I know printing a complete magazine is not allowed as it could be printed to a PDF.

179 is probably an error.

You can print individual pages.

I can’t check about 179 until Monday.

regards David

 

[Harold Hall 1Participant @haroldhall1]

Returning Ray to your opening comments to this thread, the index at

 

http://www.homews-mew-index.co.uk

would have shown up the issue numbers for your CNC router easily

Give it a try!

Harold

Edited By Harold Hall 1 on 13/08/2011 22:56:01

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by David Clark 1 on 13/08/2011 22:22:12:

Hi There

As far as I know printing a complete magazine is not allowed as it could be printed to a PDF.

179 is probably an error.

You can print individual pages.

I can’t check about 179 until Monday.

regards David

 

David,

I was being sarcastic, we were promised full printing, look back thru what was posted.

I’m also nonplussed at your remark about a complete mag is not allowed as it may be printed to a PDF?

 

Many already are and if you can print one page they you can print the whole mag to PDF.

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi John

So was I.

I can’t check officially till Monday.

regards David

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

David Clark,

When you do find out who is responsible for Digital [back]issues; may I suggest you ask them to get in touch with The British Horological Institute for some advice.

The Horological Journal is available in PDF, to subscribers only, and the image quality is stunningly good. The file sizes are also realistic, typically around 4MB for an issue.

Their online viewer is also excellent.

MichaelG.

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 15/08/2011 20:28:09:
David Clark,

When you do find out who is responsible for Digital [back]issues; may I suggest you ask them to get in touch with The British Horological Institute for some advice.

MichaelG.

 

 

I don’t think David is into gardening………..

 

 

John S.

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

Posted by John Stevenson on 15/08/2011 20:36:53:

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 15/08/2011 20:28:09:
David Clark,

When you do find out who is responsible for Digital [back]issues; may I suggest you ask them to get in touch with The British Horological Institute for some advice.

MichaelG.

 

 

I don’t think David is into gardening………..

 

 

John S.

 

That’s either a double bluff, or John’s related to Nellie Pledge…

 

… or I’m not stood standing here.

 

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 15/08/2011 21:11:27

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I Feel sorry for those that only take the digital subscription to ME, despite it being in the shops today there is still no sign of it on the homepage or in the digital issues, I’ve had my paper copy of 4011 for almost a week now

 

Its quite a good issue as well, despite having put the wrong Fig 2 on Stew’s elbow engine article.

 

Jason

Edited By JasonB on 26/08/2011 19:58:07

[nick morrisonParticipant @nickmorrison17107]

Interesting reading all this but… nobody really was bothered when I reported that the

Gorgon ship engine (two issues) in Model engineer was missing.

 

I can’t remember exactly the reply from Dave Clark but I think it was along the lines

that they (?) didn’t have the PDF.

 

So what am I paying for a digital subscription for?

 

Left me in a bad mood since, so glad for the excuse to rant.

 

Regards to all those who have the time, energy, to rant for most of us, who tend to

go in workshop and say ‘ah well’. Nick.

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

I must say that I am getting a bit p***ed off with the digital edition service (or lack of) …. I only take the digital version … I have to email David nearly every issue (ME & MEW) to kick the people concerned … I have written to the powers that be, but got no reply.

 

I’ll be asking for compensation at renewal time … like a free year as they are in breach of their terms. (and that’s not even considering the print quality issues)

 

I think that both ME and MEW should be loaded on the Tuesday/Wednesday .. which will be the day that most paper subscribers get their issue … then they would meet the advertised terms and conditions of “Access the latest issue as soon as it is published”.

 

They should know that they have to put the front cover, Index and Digital version up on 3 weeks out of 4 .. so they have no excuse.

 

Since the copies have to go to the printers in advance, so why can’t they prepare them and even upload it but make it available on the day.

 

The continued delays, means that they are going to get more complaints, lose subscribers and even claims for free extensions to digital subscriptions.

 

Dave

 

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

13th of the 8th we were going to get the printing sorted out on MEW 180, still not done.

 

All we get from David is he doesn’t know who’s responsibility the web editions are, perhaps the subscriptions people should take this matter up as they are the people taking money under false pretences ?

 

Surely MHS doesn’t have a staff of thousands where the odd department can hide away unnoticed ?

 

What amazes me is there are now hundreds of companies doing digital editions and none of these cock up like MHS does on virtually every edition. They would be better off getting Myfords to ‘reorganise’ it

John S.

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

I see now that all of the archive of both ME and MEW are now using the new digital reader.

I also note that we still do not have the long awaited (and promised) printing facility.

Also note that despite ME 4011 being available for several days now, this issue is still not available as a digital issue.

There have been many requests from subscribers, for these issues to be resolved.

Why is it that no-one seems to know who is responsible?

Why do MHS staff not respond to their advertised email address?

MHS surely must be in breach of advertising standards or something similar as they are clearly not giving access to the latest issue as soon as published, as ponted out by Steambuff.

I wonder just how long this thread will continue before someone at MHS finally take some responsibility for the abysmal services the purport to provide.

 

Graeme (another P***ed off subscriber!)

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

As regards the new digital reader, 179 still has the print icon, the rest do not have this print icon.

 

Come on MHS – get your act together – someone is working on these in the background does management know who ?

 

John S.

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