Tech Magazines going electronic.

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by FrankW, Sep 22, 2005.

  1. FrankW

    FrankW Guest

    This just plain sucks.
    Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
    printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
    bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
    Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
    stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
    of a monitor. In this case technology sucks
     
    FrankW, Sep 22, 2005
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  2. FrankW

    ken.maren Guest

    Totally agree. I do not read anything electronic.
     
    ken.maren, Sep 22, 2005
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  3. That all started years ago when software sales people began pushing "online"
    help functions in a program as a replacement for a user manual.
     
    Bill Chernoff, Sep 22, 2005
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  4. FrankW

    ken.maren Guest

    Nice. Hint Hint. Good one.
     
    ken.maren, Sep 22, 2005
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  5. FrankW

    TOP Guest

    I dropped Solid Solutions for that reason. They never sent the refund
    they said they would. And now they are defunct. With the web for
    advertising I suspect the bucks for magazine inches has diminished.
    The other thing about trade magazines that sucks is the
    articles/infomercials that now proliferate. It is rare for a reviewer
    to say it like it is anymore.
     
    TOP, Sep 22, 2005
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  6. FrankW

    Muggs Guest

    Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!
     
    Muggs, Sep 22, 2005
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  7. FrankW

    Muggs Guest

    Yea! And while were complaining, why is it lately that EVERY article is
    about PDM, FEA or CFD?

    Muggs
     
    Muggs, Sep 22, 2005
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  8. FrankW

    Rich Grise Guest

    Take a crossword puzzle into the biffy with you.

    Cheers!
    Rich
     
    Rich Grise, Sep 22, 2005
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  9. FrankW

    TOP Guest

    Bet all the engineers fleeing Houston are busy reading their online
    trade rag articles on CFD while sitting in traffic. CFD will be a hot
    item there in a day or so.
     
    TOP, Sep 23, 2005
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  10. CFD? Can't Find Dallas?
     
    John Woodgate, Sep 23, 2005
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  11. Muggs wrote...
    Word to the wise, word to the wise.
     
    Winfield Hill, Sep 23, 2005
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  12. ["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
    A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

    robert
     
    Robert Latest, Sep 24, 2005
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  13. ["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
    Say no more!

    robert
     
    Robert Latest, Sep 24, 2005
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  14. Agree.
    Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?

    --
    Dirk

    The Consensus:-
    The political party for the new millenium
    http://www.theconsensus.org
     
    Dirk Bruere at Neopax, Sep 24, 2005
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  15. I read in sci.electronics.design that Dirk Bruere at Neopax
    It started out free;
    The reader still is free;
    Everybody can read it;
    It works (enough).
     
    John Woodgate, Sep 24, 2005
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  16. They don't know any better?
    Their employer footed the bill for Adobe?
    They think it's kewl?
    It's got scalable vector graphics and text search capability?

    Who knows?

    Thanks,
    Rich
     
    Rich, Under the Affluence, Sep 24, 2005
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  17. HTML

    --
    Dirk

    The Consensus:-
    The political party for the new millenium
    http://www.theconsensus.org
     
    Dirk Bruere at Neopax, Sep 24, 2005
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  18. FrankW

    John Perry Guest

    But, Robert, Acrobat reader has had hyperlinks for several versions,
    now. And with the hot new 7.0, it'll even call home without asking your
    permission, or even telling you it's doing it!. At least with a modern
    browser (not, of course, M$ style), you can prohibit html doing that.

    John Perry
     
    John Perry, Sep 25, 2005
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  19. Couple of revs eh?
    Use standard, well defined, HTML.
    Strangely, I manage to write HTML that runs on all known browsers. But then,
    it's not loaded with Flash, movies or sound. Just pics and text.

    --
    Dirk

    The Consensus:-
    The political party for the new millenium
    http://www.theconsensus.org
     
    Dirk Bruere at Neopax, Sep 25, 2005
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  20. FrankW

    Pooh Bear Guest

    A couple of revs of PDF ?

    Yeah it's gone downhill ! Adobe should be shot.

    Graham
     
    Pooh Bear, Sep 25, 2005
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