Issue 2 available for download

I am a customer of several Division Point models and I am happy they decided to advertise in the on line MRH magazine. 

Their ad about investing in brass is not the same as when I first purchased a PFM NKP Berkshire new for $64.95

I received my NP Z8 recently from a Division Point dealer and it is so detailed, even the cab doors and almost all of the hatches open and the detail on that model is just super.  They truely are as good as it gets and I would recommend their products to anyone that wants quality brass.

Auburnflyer    

I thought the Dallas Model Works ad was awesome... Still flipping though.

Joe,

Everything you are doing is great, the people, the articles, and the direction.

Please take time to look at what you are changing from issue to issue in the beginning in the way of the software.

It has taken me over 5 hours  to get the Prem Edition to work 100% on two of my computers.

The problem with this issue revoles around QuickTime,  the reader is going to need 7.6 to make it work right and play all of the video with sound.

Free Downloads are avaiable off the internet.  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

I hope this message will help others who are having problem.

1st Issue ran fine. My tip off was the note next to download were you said you made changes, and the error messges my computers keep giving me.  Finally one popped up with QuickTime error.

Keep up the Good Work

Thanks

Art  Grande Pacific. RR. Now back to laying track.

Art:

With Issue 2, we've finally found our sweet spot. Everything works pretty well for most people - we're getting very few support emails this time around.

Once you get issue 2 working well, all future issues going forward will use this combination of rich media goodies. Over time, we may expand and grow, of course, but this is the base we'll build from.

In fact, this sweet spot is now working so well, I'm going to go back and revise Issue 1 to use this new combination of goodies. Right now, Issue 1 (PREMIUM or LITE) doesn't really work all that well on Macs, for instance.

Well.. on the subject of small technical nits and tweaks for the future.. and with the understanding I think the magazine as a whole is fantastic..

I thought that the slide show for stub turnout building was placed oddly and a bit small. I would have expected that the images would be larger and featured more prominently on the page.. not tucked in the upper right corner of an otherwise busy page.

I have been finding myself going to 100% zoom and scrolling around to get a real nice look at some of the images.. especially the images of those hoppers in that outstanding prototype article. When shrunk to whatever zoom one needs for whole page display the images get a little pixelated. It would be cool if we could click to zoom where approrpiate.. is that possible in the PDF?

Chris

Chris,

I'm not sure if you have the LITE or PREMIUM version, but the PREMIUM version has the photos at a higher resolution so you can zoom in up to 200% with little or no pixelation.

Yes.. thats what I am doing now.. what I was suggesting was a way to zoom the picture without having to zoom.. scroll.. and unzoom.. the entire page. Something that would just pop up the image. I have never seen that done in a PDF though.

Chris

Chris,

I imagine the easist way to do it would simply be to link to a full resolution version of the photo - you click on it and the monster 10mp shot downloads into your browser.

Then again, Joe's the Adobe expert, not I - you might want to make some comments over in the thread discussing where we might take the premium version.

Joe,

Thanks for all of your personnel respones.  I e-mail other publications and hear nothing.

Art

Houma, La.

I just checked The Pulsar ad and I cant believe I finally found someone that makes a Dry Transfer system most everyone can afford and make dry transfers that use white color without the need of a special printer. I can hardly wait to order the system and start producing my own RR dry transfers.