New Publication

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:43 pm

Hi all
Just went off to buy some credits on SP and there was a section about subscribing to a magazine, which seems to be new:
http://www.discovermypast.co.uk/

Only seems to be an online magazine though, so not great for trains and buses (unless you have a laptop, I suppose!) It also appears to be a Brightsolid publication, so the same company who provide SP.

Best wishes
Lesley

Billmalc · Post by **Billmalc** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:58 pm

Has anyone subscribed to this publication

I paid for the first months magazine but I have great difficulty in reading it

The normal view is far to small to read and when I zoom in the pixelation becomes so bad that I can't read that either

Think I will send a contact form in case I am missing something, but wondered if anyone else had any trouble with it

Cheers

Bill

Post by **paddyscar** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:03 am

Hi Bill:

I haven't been on to have a look, but have you tried holding down the 'control' key and rolling the wheel on the top of your mouse backwards/forwards?

Hope that might help,
Frances

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:55 am

Hi Bill
I've not subscribed to it, but the sample pages that are on the web site seem OK to zoom in on - no pixelation happening there, but then that is only a sample and not the full version of the magazine which may be in a different format.

Best wishes
Lesley

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:05 am

Hello All.

I don’t know about the full version but the sample may not work unless you have the latest version (10) of Adobe Flash Player http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ . Minimum system requirements are here but version 10 doesn’t appear to work on Windows versions prior to XP. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/ See bottom of page for earlier versions but it won’t necessarily work with those.

Right click the sample page to see your Flash version. I have version 10,0,12,36 and use Firefox 3.0.4 and the sample will zoom to 300% using the toolbar but takes a second or so to settle out the pixilation.

Everything looks ok except that some of the fonts (Contributor section) look a bit feeble and I don’t know how they will look if printed. I have no plans to print it but can see no obvious way of doing so using Firefox.

Alan

Post by **emanday** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:48 pm

Billmalc wrote:I paid for the first months magazine but I have great difficulty in reading it

The normal view is far to small to read and when I zoom in the pixelation becomes so bad that I can't read that either

Have you tried putting the pointer over each article and clicking? I think you'll find that opens the article for reading, but I don't know for sure because when I do it (I've not got a subscription) it says I cannot open it.

Billmalc · Post by **Billmalc** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:18 pm

H all

Thanks for your suggestions.

I managed to get Adobe flash, version 10 installed and that seems to have done the trick

When I zoom in, it does take ages for the page to become clear but I'm putting that down to my faithfull old laptop. Im afraid it's seen better days

Thanks again

Bill

Isabel H · Post by **Isabel H** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:59 pm

I also found it hard to read. Although I could enlarge each page, when I turned a page it reverted to small size which was really tiresome. It took me a while to spot a download button towards the bottom right of the page, which lets you download the magazine to your computer as a .pdf file which opens with Adobe Acrobat and can be sized as you wish. That solved the problem.