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ajcaptain Regular poster 300 posts
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Seem to be some issues with photos in RE adaptive version.  A gray bar cuts some of them in half.  iPad Pro , Safari browser.  Same effect when downloaded in SideBooks.

John C

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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef
I'm on it. Trying to figure out why this affects some iOS devices and nothing else. Have been able to replicate on my iPad, but my iPhone is fine.

Joe Fugateā€‹
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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef
Found it! The bad images are grayscale, not RGB. Converting them to RGB should fix the problem. Stay tuned ...

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Jwmutter Regular poster 353 posts
Jwmutter
Found the same issue with the wide version.

Jeff Mutter, Severna Park, MD

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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef
I have just verified that this change (move B&W images from grayscale to RGB) corrects the bad image problem on modern iOS devices. So now I have to regen all the versions, upload them, and send out update notices. That will take just over an hour to do.

In my testing I was also able to determine Macs and PCs don't have this problem. Only modern iOS devices have a glitch rendering grayscale images compressed with LZW compression. I can change the images to sRGB and standard jpeg compression to solve the problem -- but the ultimate issue is modern iOS devices have a serious image rendering bug they need to resolve.

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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef
Okay, the bad images have been corrected. Please download a fresh copy of the PDF!

Joe Fugateā€‹
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Jwmutter Regular poster 353 posts
Jwmutter
That did itā€¦thank you, Joe!

Jeff Mutter, Severna Park, MD

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Benny MRH Author 7,125 posts
Benny
Joe, I used the new link point in my profile to access the February edition, and it was everything I ever thought it could be.  Seamless operation, two clicks (and the first one being to a place where I go often) and I was in.  Thank you so very much.

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Ron Ventura Notace Frequent poster 689 posts
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joef wrote:
Okay, the bad images have been corrected. Please download a fresh copy of the PDF!

This has been happening for several months now. Iā€™m not sure whether itā€™s worth the effort of going back through the older issues or not. Thatā€™s your call. I can live with the ā€œbrokenā€ photos. Thanks for taking the time to find the problem and fixing it. 

Ron Ventura

Melbourne, Australia
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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef
We just now fixed December. We plan to also fix Jan and Nov, also with bad images for current Apple users. The problem could go all the way back to issue 1 -- but it only seems to have surfaced this fall when Apple devices started failing to render this particular kind of black and white images in PDFs.

Ultimately, the monkey is on Apple's back to get this fixed. We're just working around their rendering bug for now. If you use a non-Apple PDF reader, the problem tends to disappear.

Joe Fugateā€‹
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Pennsy_Nut Prolific poster 3,619 posts
Pennsy_Nut
All the more reason to use "Foxit pdf reader".

Morgan Bilbo, DCS50, UR93, UT4D, SPROG IIv4, JMRI. PRR 1952.
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kansaspacific1 Frequent poster 688 posts
kansaspacific1
No problems with downloading or viewing.  Just had to say this is the BESTšŸ˜ƒ RE in perhaps forever, especially articles by James Six and Jack Burgess.

Chuck

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Jerry Sparrow jbirdweb Super User 155 posts
Jerry Sparrow jbirdweb

Joe,
I just purchased the Feb RE and it will not allow me to download it. I get an error of:

C:\Users\jbird\AppData\Local\Temp\dGMFBv01.pdf.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

Do I need to wait a little while?

Jerry Sparrow
Freelance modeling the fictitious
Cantwell and Chenoa Railway

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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef
Jerry Sparrow  jbirdweb wrote:

Joe,
I just purchased the Feb RE and it will not allow me to download it. I get an error of:

C:\Users\jbird\AppData\Local\Temp\dGMFBv01.pdf.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

Do I need to wait a little while?

That error is talking about your computer's C drive, which means itā€™s an error on your local computer. We canā€™t fix those, sorry. Maybe a good power cycle reboot or trying a different browser, perhaps?

In researching this issue, it appears to happen most often with the Firefox browser. Is that the one youā€™re using?

It also appears this error is caused by a glitchy internet connection. When fetching small files like a web page, glitches can be rare, but when downloading large files, browsers do not have very robust error handling if the data being downloaded gets corrupted in any way. The recommended solution for large downloads is to not rely on the browser but to get yourself an Internet Download Manager.

You didnā€™t say if this is a Windows machine or a Mac. We'll assume itā€™s a Windows machine. If so, then get yourself the Internet Download Manager we use: IDM. A lifetime license is $25 ā€¦  https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com

An IDM has many advantages ā€¦

- Can open multiple download threads, making the download much faster.
- Double checks each download block with a checksum and if it finds an error, automatically redownloads until the block is good
- Can restart an incomplete download later where it left off ā€” does not need to start over
- Can schedule a large file download to happen later when web traffic is low, such as overnight.
- Far more robust, faster, and less error prone than web browser downloads

Joe Fugateā€‹
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