Thread: FWW Archive

It really is a bizarre problem. Take a look at this page 40 from Nov/Dec 2006 and you can see most text is OK, but quite a bit is not. Unsure how this would happen, but I suspect the conversion to PDF went astray.page 40 .jpg

Originally Posted by Chrism3

Graeme,
you can see from Derek's post above that he has the 2014 version and it's not clear at all.
Is yours on Disk or USB?
Chris

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Mine's on DVD, which I loaded onto my PC's SSD. Haven't found a wonky page yet.


Cheers

Graeme

Originally Posted by graemecook

mine's on dvd, which i loaded onto my pc's ssd. Haven't found a wonky page yet.


Cheers

graeme

ssd =?

Originally Posted by Midnight Man

I think he did it a different way.

Alternatively, as a subscriber, you can find the actual article, and then hit "Download PDF" to get the entire article as a PDF. That way, you're only downloading the single article, minus any ads that were on the pages etc.

I suspect that comes from different source material, and would be crisper in output.

I simply didn't think of accessing it that way.

Correct Midnight Man, Chris had identified a particular page that was causing issues so I tracked down the particular article and down loaded the PDF of the article so I could supply it to Chris.

I agree that the bandwidth issues would be way less significant these days, particularly since they are offer a choice between whole mag or individual article downloads. So It is likely that they employ less compression for the individual article PDF's.


Re query about ssd's, that is shorthand for solid state drive - basically a large array of silicon chips intended to provide long term storage for data and software, and arranged to be accessed and function like a very high speed hard disk drive. Similar to a usb stick, but much faster and with a standard drive or motherboard buss interface instead of a usb interface.

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

Hi Everyone

My 2014 copy of their digital archive is clear - very legible - so they must have fixed the problem.

Incidentally, the junk mail from FWW says that they are currently discounting the 2018 version for US$79. That is really incredible value - copies of all 271 issues of Fine Woodwork magazine from inception in 1975 through to Christmas 2018. Less than 30 cents per issue!



Cheers

Graeme

Note that the 2018 archive on USB does not work on Windows 7, while the DVD version says it does.

Originally Posted by Chrism3

ssd =?

SSD = Solid State Drive. Its an update to the old HDD's or Hard Disk Drives on the computer and works much faster.

Cheers

Graeme

Originally Posted by Chrism3

note that the 2018 archive on DVD/Flash drive does not work on Windows 7.

That's a bit regressive of them, Chris.

My 2014 Archive on DVD worked fine on Windows 7 and then migrated smoothly to Windows 10.

Yet another adv flogging the DVD/USB just arrived - note the $20 discount on the top line.
https://www.tauntonstore.com/2018-fi...&mid=634879284


Cheers

Graeme

Moderators: Please delete the last paragraph if I have offended the Forum commercial rules.

I wonder whether being on Windows 10 has anything to do with the fact that you are seeing something different to Derek, whose post from 2014 clearly shows the problem I am experiencing.

I've got what I think was the first edition of the FWW archive (2006) on win10 and also loaded to a spinning HDD because I got sick of the CD and it is exactly the same as the OP's version.

Thanks for all your interest and responses on this. I intend to pursue FWW to get an answer, and hopefully some remedy. It would seem from the above that people have experienced the problem in annual issues of archives from 2006 up to 2016, except Graeme whose 2014 DVD copy is OK. It seems to be fixed on the online version for individual pdf's but not for the archive as a whole.
Is that a correct interpretation?
Chris

Originally Posted by Chrism3

Thanks for all your interest and responses on this. I intend to pursue FWW to get an answer, and hopefully some remedy. It would seem from the above that people have experienced the problem in annual issues of archives from 2006 up to 2016, except Graeme whose 2014 DVD copy is OK. It seems to be fixed on the online version for individual pdf's but not for the archive as a whole.
Is that a correct interpretation?
Chris

Good move, Chris.

My copy of the Archive is installed on my SSD and I work off that copy, not the DVD itself. Don't know if this could make a difference. (But guess a download cannot be better than the original.)


Cheers

Graeme

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

Good move, Chris.

My copy of the Archive is installed on my SSD and I work off that copy, not the DVD itself. Don't know if this could make a difference. (But guess a download cannot be better than the original.)


Cheers

Graeme

Graeme,
I wasn't aware that you could work off the DVD - you can't on mine, because you can't see the pdf's until you run the install package.
Chris

Originally Posted by Chrism3

Graeme,
I wasn't aware that you could work off the DVD - you can't on mine, because you can't see the pdf's until you run the install package.
Chris

My post may be misleading, Chris.

I ran the install package and installed the DVD contents on my HDD some four years ago and worked from that. Later the entire contents of the HDD were transferred to a SSD; and that's what I use now.

I hypothesised that you could work directly from the DVD - probably I was wrong, dunno?


Cheers

Graeme

Hi,

I think you need to buy this again. You can free download this from https://archive.org/details/Fine_Woodworking_February_2016