Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
En/Je/On 2014-08-04 11:19, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : > >I suggest an easier alternative: The filename extension can be changed > >to ".cbz"; then a comic viewer will open the file, and you can read it > >as comfortably as with a PDF viewer. > I get enough people asking me how to open a PDF without adding to > the proliferation of little known formats! I understand. My suggestion was just a simple trick that may be useful for certain users; I didn't mean you to publish CBZ files. Anyway, CBR (images packed with RAR), CBZ (images packed with ZIP) and other CB* flavours are just ordinary compressed archives with a different filename extension; they are the standard way to distribute scanned comics, but the content makes no difference, it can be a magazine, a book, a photo album... There are free readers around for the most common platforms. Maybe a note in your page about that possibility would save you some questions?: "If you rename the '.zip' filename extension to '.cbz', you will be able to read the files with a comic book reader program such as MComix, QComicBook or cbrPager (for Linux); or [I don't know, but there are a lot of them] (for Windows); or [...] (for OSX)..." But maybe you would receive new interesting questions about how to change the filename extension... :) -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
These are downloaded as zipped collections of scanned pages, one jpeg file per page. If anyone would like to make these into PDFs, please feel free! I suggest an easier alternative: The filename extension can be changed to ".cbz"; then a comic viewer will open the file, and you can read it as comfortably as with a PDF viewer. I get enough people asking me how to open a PDF without adding to the proliferation of little known formats! scan copies of other QL related magazines, copyright situation permitting Do you know what's the copyright situation of Sinclair QL World? Still with Arcwind, don't know if that includes the older pre-Arcwind issues, though. Dilwyn ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
On 04/08/2014 00:19, Marcos Cruz wrote: En/Je/On 2014-08-03 16:56, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : I’ve added a new page to my website where I hope to include scanned copies of QL-related magazines. Thank you! These are downloaded as zipped collections of scanned pages, one jpeg file per page. If anyone would like to make these into PDFs, please feel free! I suggest an easier alternative: The filename extension can be changed to ".cbz"; then a comic viewer will open the file, and you can read it as comfortably as with a PDF viewer. scan copies of other QL related magazines, copyright situation permitting Do you know what's the copyright situation of Sinclair QL World? Sinclair QL World rights are still (so far as I am aware) owned by Arcwind Limited. However, it is impossible to get them to respond to an email about QL World -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Specialist Enuuk Auction Programming Services www.rwapservices.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
