Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
Thanks Marcos. I've added this suggestion to the bottom of the Magazines page now. Would it be possible for you to check the text is correct, as I have never used comic book readers before. http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html Dilwyn Jones -Original Message- From: Marcos Cruz Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 5:30 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
En/Je/On 2014-08-05 10:55, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : I've added this suggestion to the bottom of the Magazines page now. Would it be possible for you to check the text is correct I find it clear and instructive. One detail: I'd write .zip (quoted and with dot) instead of zip, as you did with .cbz, I mean, both with the same format, just in case a novice user could get confused about the dot. By the way, for certain uses, a ZIP archive is more accessible than a PDF file. For example, to manipulate individual images, or to view them with a special image viewer, or to OCR some pages with command line tools, or to create a new volume from extracted articles... Getting the images back from a PDF is possible but not so immediate. My point is: ZIP archives are valuable even when a PDF version is available. -- 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
Hi, Why not have both... Regards, Derek On 05/08/14 11:49, Marcos Cruz wrote: En/Je/On 2014-08-05 10:55, Dilwyn Jones escribió / skribis / wrote : I've added this suggestion to the bottom of the Magazines page now. Would it be possible for you to check the text is correct I find it clear and instructive. One detail: I'd write .zip (quoted and with dot) instead of zip, as you did with .cbz, I mean, both with the same format, just in case a novice user could get confused about the dot. By the way, for certain uses, a ZIP archive is more accessible than a PDF file. For example, to manipulate individual images, or to view them with a special image viewer, or to OCR some pages with command line tools, or to create a new volume from extracted articles... Getting the images back from a PDF is possible but not so immediate. My point is: ZIP archives are valuable even when a PDF version is available. ___ 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
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
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
[Ql-Users] News from DJ
New Magazines Page I’ve added a new page to my website where I hope to include scanned copies of QL-related magazines. To start things off, I’ve included copies of the old CGH games magazines, the QL Adventurers Forum (all 9 issues) and QL Leisure Review (all 2 issues). 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! Equally, if anyone with the time and resources can scan copies of other QL related magazines, copyright situation permitting (we did get permission from Richard Alexander to include the CGH mags) we can add those too. http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/mags/index.html MDI and FDI Drivers Update Martin Head has sent me update files for his MDI and FDI drivers, which are now available to download from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/index.html The updates include MDV driver v1.04, FDI driver v1.03 and a new ROM image (xDIRom) which is a ROM image with both the Microdrive and Floppy drivers combined. The drivers are now ROMable, and 16K ROM images are supplied for both the Microdrive (MDI), and Floppy (FDI) drivers. . Commands have been added to the drivers to create blank Microdrive and Floppy images, without using separate SuperBASIC programs. Some commands have been added to the Microdrive driver, to convert Martin's MDI images to and from QLay and Qemulator image file formats. The two update files are just replacement Readme's and code files for the two drivers already on the website. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] News from DJ
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? -- Marcos Cruz http://programandala.net ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
