I came to the FWW website today to browse through and read the latest issue online. My eyesight is failing and I can no longer just sit and read the print magazine. That ability is one of the reasons I am an Unlimited subscriber.
The reader for the the digital version is unusable. It’s a piece of garbage. If I enlarge the page so the print is readable to me, the page zooms around my screen whipping from side to side as I move the mouse. The page shouldn’t move until I hold the mouse button down to move it. Please just give me a PDF version of each issue so I can read it with a PDF viewer whose page movement I can control.
I do see that a few of the articles from the issue are listed on the issue main page, and those are easier to read but some are not complete. There is a View PDF button on a few of those article pages and that’s great as far as it goes. But 75% of the issue content (or so it seems) is only available through the miserable digital issue viewer. Please make PDFs of the full issue available to us sight-impaired readers on the website when the issue comes out.
Thanks, Mark
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I can read the digital issue on my laptop with a 12" by 7" screen. I have to zoom in and it is not as easy as using a PDF but it isn't bad either.
The zoom page moves with the movement of the mouse is absolutely annoying and I cannot concentrate on what I read. So understand your point.
I'm with Mark on this - It's either too big or too small - neither fish nor fowl.
Zoom option is all or nothing - a tiny thing in the middle of the screen or over-enlarged views.
A very unsatisfying way to perusing an online magazine.
I have the opposite experience when viewing on my desktop computer. I can dial in the exact amount of zoom with the scroll wheel.
Mike
Hey all,
There is a really simple solution to this issue. The hand icon on the top right of the issue stops the page from moving with your cursor.
I made a video to demonstrate: https://bcove.video/2VKVexk
Thank you! That works. Didn't think to click on that icon (actually, just didn't notice it was there).
Still would rather use a PDF viewer with pages vertical rather than side by side. Normally I would zoom in until the single page was almost as wide as my monitor and scroll down to read. Double column text requires a bit more scrolling up and down, but still OK.
But for now thanks, Ben, for the info on the hand icon.
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