New MEW Digital archive – access?

[BamberParticipant @bamber]

Thank you David, it look O.K. now!

 

Regards

 

Dave

[Kenny HurnParticipant @kennyhurn]

Hi,

According to list issue 83 has been rescanned but I have just printed ‘Electonics in the Model Enginners Workshop’ and the circuit diagrams are illegible. Any chance of a rescan of the rescan?

Regards

 

Kenny

[Stephen BensonParticipant @stephenbenson75261]

Hi.

 

I have just subscribed to the new MEW digital archive and I am trying to print pages 71-74 on issue 4 but it just stays on load pages for ever I was OK printing for other pages fot that edition will try again tomorrow.

steve  

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Stephen, I don’t think trying again tomorrow will help – AFAIK no one has been able to print those pages. In fact, your message implies you were OK for page 70 in which case you are doing well. I can’t get past page-69.

[Chris BanningerParticipant @chrisbanninger89672]

David, it all worked well for me since you acted on my post 18.January.

 

But now, since yesterday, I get this message when I try to open any of the archived issues:

 

A licensing error does not
permit you to View this Document

Contact your supplier for more information

 

What has happened? Looks like the problem is caused by the reader that you use?

 

Chris

[Greg Brodie-TyrrellParticipant @gregbrodie-tyrrell42319]

David, I tried to view Issue 38 and some others, and I get the following message.

 

A licensing error does not permit you to View this Document

Contact your supplier for more information

 

What’s happening here, cobber?

 

Greg Brodie-Tyrrell

Oakbank South Australia

[Greg Brodie-TyrrellParticipant @gregbrodie-tyrrell42319]

David,

 

Further to the above, the problem for me seems to be related to Issues 38, 39 and 40.  I can see stuff either side of that so far.

 

Greg Brodie-Tyrrell

Oakbank South Australia

[Luca RossiParticipant @lucarossi73403]

With previous version of MEW digital archive I could easily print pages, to keep a paper copy of my favourite articles to read even without having to be connected to Internet, nor having to carry back my laptop. With the new magazine player now I couldn’t, is there any fixes? I’ll be glad if digital issues will came in *.pdf format, it will be fantastic to keep a copy on hard disk of entire collection!

Many thanks

 

Luca

[Chris BanningerParticipant @chrisbanninger89672]

With previous version of MEW digital archive I could easily print pages, to keep a paper copy of my favourite articles to read even without having to be connected to Internet, nor having to carry back my laptop. With the new magazine player now I couldn”t, is there any fixes? I”ll be glad if digital issues will came in *.pdf format, it will be fantastic to keep a copy on hard disk of entire collection!

Many thanks

 

Luca

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

[Richard Johnson 1Participant @richardjohnson1]

I can’t access back issues of Model Eng. Workshop prior to Jan 2009. I have entered my (by post) subscriber number and fiddled about on the website for some time with no success. Could anyone please tell me if earlier back numbers are not available generally or what I should do to access them?

 

Why are the answers to such obvious questions not  upfront and obvious where one can find them?!

 

Thanks

Richard Johnson

[Luca RossiParticipant @lucarossi73403]

Posted by Chris Banninger on 28/05/2010 10:49:20:

With previous version of MEW digital archive I could easily print pages, to keep a paper copy of my favourite articles to read even without having to be connected to Internet, nor having to carry back my laptop. With the new magazine player now I couldn”t, is there any fixes? I”ll be glad if digital issues will came in *.pdf format, it will be fantastic to keep a copy on hard disk of entire collection!

Many thanks

 

Luca

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

 Thnks Chris, that’s the way I used to save with old version of digital issues player, with the new version I couldn’t find the “print” command.

 

pdfcreator: simply the best!

 

thanks again

 

Luca

[Colin MathiesonParticipant @colinmathieson]

Hi;  

 

   I recently subscribed to the Digital Archive of MEW and followed all the instructions as to logging in but keep getting bounced back to the note that says you need a subscription. I’ve entered my number and done all the steps numerous times but still the same results. Has anyone else experienced this? Have my 29 Gbp gone into the electron bin?Cheers from Canada Colin 

 

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

You don’t appear to have a current subscription.

Either the number is incorrect or your surname was wrongly entered.

Please check any confirmation email.

You are not lapsed so probably not a payment error.

regards David

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