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FrankW

Jan 1, 1970
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This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks
 
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Bill Chernoff

Jan 1, 1970
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That all started years ago when software sales people began pushing "online"
help functions in a program as a replacement for a user manual.
 
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TOP

Jan 1, 1970
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I dropped Solid Solutions for that reason. They never sent the refund
they said they would. And now they are defunct. With the web for
advertising I suspect the bucks for magazine inches has diminished.
The other thing about trade magazines that sucks is the
articles/infomercials that now proliferate. It is rare for a reviewer
to say it like it is anymore.
 
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Barry Lennox

Jan 1, 1970
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This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks


Well, I'm in two minds over it. Agree it's a PITA, however if it's
cheap enough, I can be bought. Circuit Cellar for $5 a year? Can't go
past that. I have even now assembled an old clunker PC in the barn
just for reading pdf's !

Barry Lennox
 
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Muggs

Jan 1, 1970
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Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!
 
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Muggs

Jan 1, 1970
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Yea! And while were complaining, why is it lately that EVERY article is
about PDM, FEA or CFD?

Muggs
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks

Take a crossword puzzle into the biffy with you.

Cheers!
Rich
 
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TOP

Jan 1, 1970
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Bet all the engineers fleeing Houston are busy reading their online
trade rag articles on CFD while sitting in traffic. CFD will be a hot
item there in a day or so.
 
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Ian Stirling

Jan 1, 1970
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In sci.electronics.design FrankW said:
This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks

It depends.
I'm reading more on my (1.1Kg) laptop than I read dead-tree these
days. (200 books/year)
It gets propped up on its side on the bed, taken to the loo, ...

However, PDF is fundamentally the wrong format IMO.
I DO NOT WANT to have a simple electronic copy of the magazine.
I want one that I can adjust to have text size appropriate to where I
am, what the conditions are, ...
HTML.
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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Bet all the engineers fleeing Houston are busy reading their online
trade rag articles on CFD while sitting in traffic. CFD will be a hot
item there in a day or so.
CFD? Can't Find Dallas?
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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Muggs wrote...
Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!

ken wrote ...

Word to the wise, word to the wise.
 
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Robert Latest

Jan 1, 1970
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["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

robert
 
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Robert Latest

Jan 1, 1970
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["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
Muggs wrote...

Word to the wise, word to the wise.

Say no more!

robert
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Ian said:
It depends.
I'm reading more on my (1.1Kg) laptop than I read dead-tree these
days. (200 books/year)
It gets propped up on its side on the bed, taken to the loo, ...

However, PDF is fundamentally the wrong format IMO.
I DO NOT WANT to have a simple electronic copy of the magazine.
I want one that I can adjust to have text size appropriate to where I
am, what the conditions are, ...
HTML.
Agree.
Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Dirk Bruere at Neopax
Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?

It started out free;
The reader still is free;
Everybody can read it;
It works (enough).
 
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Mark Zenier

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax said:
Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?

To them it's just another form of paper. They're media/graphic arts/
print geeks and they want their beautiful layouts fixed so nobody
can screw with them. (And the reader is stuck reading the ads, too).

Mark Zenier [email protected]
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk said:


A very poor choice, unless you have the exact browser software type
and revision it was written for. How many people want to keep every
version of every browser at hand when you only need a couple revs of
PDF?
 
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