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Abhishek_kr7's picture

Does Free Software Magazine allow pdf downloads?!??

"Freesoftware Magazine" ditches PDF download version: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2667

I dont know how true this is, but I definitely do NOT want the pdf downloads to cease in favor of an online only portal.

PDFs are way better, for me at least.

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admin's picture

YES

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2008-03-02 10:30.

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The download of PDF issues of Free Software Magazine is now possible.

Please note that these are automatically generated files. They will get better as HTMLDOC gets better.

Thank you,

Merc.

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Ryan Cartwright's picture

Old news - move along

Submitted by Ryan Cartwright on Thu, 2007-09-13 12:51.

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Oh let's not start this again.

The post you link is dated 7 Feb 2007 and refers to a very old debate from Issue 16 which has long since been resolved.
Auto-generated PDFs for articles are available. What's gone is the full colour professionally produced print-style PDF of pre-Issue 16 days.

cheers
Ryan

[EDITED: Entire issue's PDFs are gone; however, articles will stay]

Ian Littlewood's picture

Where are the PDF issues?

Submitted by Ian Littlewood on Sun, 2008-01-13 18:27.

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I don't seem to be able to find them anywhere.

admin's picture

GOne for now

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-01-14 04:13.

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Hi,

I changed Ryan's response to reflect the current situation.
We now have PFD downloads and pring preview for any logged in user. However, we recently upgraded from XML to Markdown in terms of article formats, and I haven't been able to restore the issue's PDFs. I tried and tried - it's just too hard to get HTMLDoc to generate them.

Sorry...

Merc.

graham powell's picture

PDF Downloads

Submitted by graham powell on Mon, 2008-01-14 12:58.

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Attempting to download the PDFs (as I always had done) has been driving me nuts for months! I was beginning to think I was going crazy.

Ray Hamilton's picture

Change the newsletter announcement

Submitted by Ray Hamilton on Fri, 2008-01-18 18:57.

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I can understand there are problems creating a .PDF for download, but I too have wasted a fair bit of time and sanity trying to download the most recent issues. In my defence, this is because the mail list announcment e-mail mentions "Generated PDFs are available" and to me this implies the whole magazine. Perhaps this announcement could be changed?

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Done!

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-01-18 23:25.

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Hi,

Good point - done!

Merc.

bubbles's picture

PDF's

Submitted by bubbles on Sat, 2008-01-19 13:36.

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So there are no more issues in pdf for download?

adithyau's picture

how to download fsm

Submitted by adithyau on Mon, 2008-02-11 10:19.

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i used to download lots of fsm issues once..
i just downloaded the pdf's of all issues upto 18..
After nearly 2-3 months i have forgotten how to download the pdf version of the issues..
I searched and searched but didn't find out how..?
please any help,..

Ryan Cartwright's picture

You can't download issues

Submitted by Ryan Cartwright on Mon, 2008-02-18 14:44.

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Tony’s response above explains why you can no longer get PDFs of entire issues. Only PDFs of individual articles are now available.

HTH Ryan

admin's picture

YES

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2008-03-02 10:30.

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The download of PDF issues of Free Software Magazine is now possible.

Please note that these are automatically generated files. They will get better as HTMLDOC gets better.

Thank you,

Merc.

Andrew Min's picture

Tony, are we going to add

Submitted by Andrew Min on Sat, 2008-03-08 15:33.

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Tony, are we going to add PDF capabilities for columns piece as well?

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