jfsuperior
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a friendly suggestion
Aug 08, 2019,10:29 AM
I find it an incomplete service to the public when a worthy
review, report, or interview gets posted on any forum with an inability to download
same in a PDF format.
My experience, and I’m sure that of many others too, has
been that even a linked article often gets broken or deleted with passing time making
it not possible to find and/or retrieve. As such, when I try to save posted
articles as PDF (by clicking first on “print”) they get distorted, have missing
lines of text, or cluttered with unwanted or unrelated junk.
A watch forum is a place to educate and inform readers. Any serious
article posted should have the option for one to download the same in a clean
and neat PDF format.
I hope my suggestion gets serious consideration from the
forum especially for articles coming from watch companies which are always
eager to promote their new timepieces or other matters of interest. It would be
well worth adding the mentioned feature to enhance the forum and make it more
useful.
If anyone can chime in with help how to make this happen
please do.
Respectfully,
Jack Freedman
sample image added for index
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2019-08-08 13:30:11
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a friendly suggestion
By: jfsuperior : August 8th, 2019-10:29
I find it an incomplete service to the public when a worthy review, report, or interview gets posted on any forum with an inability to download same in a PDF format. My experience, and I’m sure that of many others too, has been that even a linked article ...
Your thoughts are always welcome.
By: Bill : August 8th, 2019-11:52
We work very hard to maintain all articles post with utmost integrity. WE also add the advantage of the conversations that follow each post or article which can add another dimension and point of view. we maintain a full site of just such articles right h...
Downloading articles as PDFs
By: cazalea : August 8th, 2019-12:27
Hello Jack, You pose an interesting question. Since my name on the masthead has the words "Managing Editor" next to it, I will try to answer. You correctly note that we are providing the forum as a people to express themselves, and some do it casually, as...
appreciate your quick response
By: jfsuperior : August 8th, 2019-12:47
Mike, You have articulated the challenges very well. I'm by no means a software expert so rest assured that my suggestion was based on many sites especially news media having a PRINT option right on the page which when clicked will allow the user to save ...
Yes, if we were a media outlet you would expect us to do that
By: cazalea : August 8th, 2019-13:05
However, we are an enthusiast site without a paid staff of editors and writers. As I said earlier, I have some experience with this in prior occupational lifetimes (automotive service manuals) and we generally needed to massage the articles in a significa...
Here's a better alternative
By: cazalea : August 8th, 2019-13:25
Cut/Paste doesn't really work on web pages, as you get lots of artifacts you don't want I'm not sure about PCs but Macs / Safari have a READER MODE that suppresses ads, links and extraneous popups, so you can more easily scan the text and images. Perhaps ...
I know what you mean
By: jfsuperior : August 8th, 2019-14:04
as this is a feature I use on my iPhone which operates on the Safari browser. I often e-mail myself or others the cleaner looking article. But I just went on your website and others with my Mac using Safari and READER MODE function did not display anywher...
It works when you come directly to the article from our front page
By: cazalea : August 8th, 2019-14:06
It doesn't seem to work if you have worked your way around the site for awhile. Try playing around a bit and coming to the first article in the thread via the index or a search. I'm not sure why or how it functions, but it seems to like articles that I wr...
I do just that for well deserving articles
By: jfsuperior : August 8th, 2019-13:52
where I have to copy and paste text and separately copy and paste photos in their designated spots into a WORD doc which I then save as a PDF for my files. It's a tedious and laborious task.
Doomsday preppers unite
By: nwk00 : August 8th, 2019-18:52
Hehe I do this too, especially after the early days when good discussions were lost.
