The Dot Connector Magazine Joins Forces With SOTT.net!
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Mr. Premise
The Living Force
Echo Blue said:
I am also in Massachusetts and haven't received it yet either. But there are some subscribers in one town over from me who have, so there is something about the class of mail that gives each post office the choice to slow it down, I think.
Piotrek
Jedi
I would not doubt USPS classifying these magazines as 'MEDIA MAIL', in which case delivery can take anywhere from 5 to 21 days.Mr. Premise said:
Add 7 days for international transport and you've got yourself a month.
Not very considerate of them, but that's nothing new from government [contractor] employees.
Gimpy said:WhiteBear said:
Should we switch to subscribing to the online version to side step this? I do love having the magazine in hand to share with other people, but if that is becoming an issue...would printing and article out now and then be bad?
I'm just voicing thoughts here....
And THANK YOU for the article posting early!The Dot Connector is one of the few things I actually look forward to.
When I go to that link, and click the little print icon underneath the title of the article, only the first page printed has text on it, and I got 60 blank pages! I'm printing it out at work, using IE as the browser (required), printing to a network printer. FWIW
Can everyone please post to the FB DCM site on this topic?
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=762784678#!/pages/The-Dot-Connector-Magazine/122590854450867
We want to have a public face for this problem. It is simply not acceptable.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=762784678#!/pages/The-Dot-Connector-Magazine/122590854450867
We want to have a public face for this problem. It is simply not acceptable.
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Mrs. Peel said:
I usually print most of forum threads and articles or news –due to ...many things, what I do is:
1 I selected the whole article with the mouse –lately I had been just pointing the mouse in the tittle and move down 3 lines or so and it get selected all …
2 I copy-paste in a pre-saved word file (stretched margin, 3 columns, with page numbers)
3 I change the font to Verdana (it had been the better one to read in paper so far) at 7 points and interlined up to 1 point or minimun, if it is too small the font you can put it at 9 points, it will be more pages to print though.
4 Change sizes from images or delete them.
--instead or 60 pages (along with commentaries I got 66), it came out to 19. I do not do it by the "print" button due those mentioned glitches.
5 I print first 1-10 and then in the other side 11-19 –when you got odd numbers, just make sure to separate the one which does not get its pair.
I get confused every time I want to printed both sides continuously and if one single paper get wrong the whole set can go to the trash or it takes to much time to arrange it, so I avoid doing it that way.
--- I print them in economode and in poor quality (I only have a black laser printer) –it saves more than 50% of toner.
6 If it is convenient or you had printed many pages you can also get it binded.
gaman said:
We have done a few "PDF subscriptions". The problem is that there is no system in place to handle such a thing, so it all has to be done manually. When you buy a PDF from the online DCM store, the store software handles everything. There's no way to make it work the way we would need it to, so we'd have to whip something up.
Mrs. Peel said:
God bless IE!
I was unable to get the print feature to work consistently in all browsers. If it works in Firefox, it doesn't work in IE. If it works in IE, it's all screwed up in Firefox.
I'm contemplating adding PDF generation/download of articles...
