Kevin Wright Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I usualy read my electronic issue on an iPad, which works reasonably well. I've just tried it on a PC and I must admit if I tried it there first I wouldn't have bothered with a subscription. The April 2014 issue is particularly bad and is so over compressed it is unreadable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Hi Kevin, Welcome to the forum! I've just checked my downloaded copy on the PC and it doesn't appear any different to any other issue - on a 21" monitor, with a bit of scrolling to enlarge the type, it's all perfectly legible. Are you saying that magnifying the page still doesn't make it readable? Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I've just checked it and fine for me too. What I have noticed is this: the reader seems to work by loading and displaying a very low res version of the page and then (usually pretty well immediately) it loads the full version. Once or twice I have see it sort of "get stuck" on the low res version. Its not common, but it has happened to me. Maybe this it what you have experienced Kevin? The cure is to just exit and reenter the mag - then all is fie as usual. But I'd state categorically that the PC version in no way seems symptomatically inferior to the iPad version as far as I am concerned BEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wright Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 We'll as every one is not seeing this, I am running windows 8.1 64bit and I've tried both IE and Chrome. The first time I click on a page it does zoom in, although images remain horribly jagged. Try to move to another page and all you get is a magnified low res view. This does only seem to occur on the latest issue. On magazines that work OK on my PC, when viewed on my iPad I can see a normal view of a complete A4 page that is perfectly readable, and I can then zoom in to this. My 24" PC monitor is perfectly capable of displaying 2 A4 pages side by side, but the only way I can get a page is that is readable is to blow it up so big I can't see the whole page. Also the pictures are still lower res than the iPad. So the PC version has definitely been dummed down for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I appreciate your annoyance, Kevin. However, there's nothing we mods can do to help, unfortunately, so I suggest you email Pocketmags at the link on this page and hopefully they can come up with a fix. Let us know how it goes Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wright Posted March 22, 2014 Author Share Posted March 22, 2014 OK I was confused, I didn't think RCM&E used pocketmags as I couldn't see my RCM&E subscription under pocket mags on my PC. So I tried to logon to pocketmags again on my PC - no joy even if I changed my password. Contacted pocket mags and they fixed that very quickly, at the weekend. Could now logon again, but still no RCM&E subscription. Contacted pocket mags again, took them nearly a week to fix this one. Could now see RCM&E but was not impressed with the reader (silverlight) - so much wasted screen space. Installed Windows 8 pocketmags app and boy what a difference. Now I can see two pages side by side, filling the screen, and easier to read than on my iPad, without zooming in! At last something Windows 8 is good for! So thanks for your help, but why isn't there a link from this site to pocketmags? Unless I just can't see it. And I do recommend everyone with Windows 8 to install the app. Maybe you could make this clear to all users somewhere? Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 On the Home Page, under 'More Features', there are two links to 'Subscription and Subscriber queries' and to 'Download RCM&E to your device'. Either of those lead to pages where you will find the [email protected] email address. There is also a Subscriptions FAQ page here. I'll pass your suggestion about a link to Pocketmags up the line.... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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