Papers Past - Part V

[Fresh Fields]

Hello Minniehaha.

A lot of computer packages will include a programme that will allow for the rotating of an image, It's just a case of finding what you already have access too, and then we can take a few screen shots showing the steps that need to be taken to achieve your objective.

Feel free to PM me if you wish, and I will see if I can help. Lost access to a good, for me, programme when computers up scaled from 32 to 64 bit technology, but I have the basic ablilty with at least two progammes that came with my new computer's package.

Alan.

[PapersPast]

Question:

Not being in the slightest 'tech savvy', can the pages that are presented side-on, be rotated please?

We didn't have the resources to add a rotate-on-the-fly software feature to the site, but we played around with this and tested different out-of-the-box setups. Some had rotated images, and it wasn't quite the straightforward situation you might imagine. When those images are rotated away from their natural print orientation, they become much wider, which causes problems for scaling the material. You end up with a choice between either having a readability issue with the landscape width stuff scaled down to fit the width of a portrait page, or having all of the material more readable but some of it rotated. A third option was landscape-rotated and eveything scaled in proportion, which makes everything small, so this was a non-starter.

After a lot of back-and-forth, we went with the second option. It felt like the most day-to-day usable of the choices - it's still a compromise, but less compromise than the others.

[Fresh Fields]

Hello again.

In regards to my above offer. If you are particularly interested in the likes of the large MISSING FRIENDS tables, and would like a copy for your records, it would be possible to process the image as two halves which could then be joined for a landscape display. Then reproduced as A4 or A3 landscape for your kept paper research records.

Alan.

[minniehaha]

Thank you Papers Past & Fresh Fields.

I might have to borrow a ten year old to help out here. I had one once, but he flew the coop many moons ago. 


Minniehaha.

[PapersPast]

Hi folks, just letting you know that we're doing a bunch of under-the-hood work on PP today, and this will make some cookies go bad on some people's browsers. It may not impact many people, but I thought it best to let you all know. Unfortunately, this is hard to avoid - but fortunately it's also super simple to fix, so it's not too bad.

If you see anything funny happen particularly with lists of search results, just close any PP tabs you have open, delete the PP cookies from your browser, then you're all good to go again.

I'm around to help if you have any questions :-)

[PapersPast]

Hello folks -

It's new content release day in our newspapers collection - this is a sizeable release from a page-count perspective, 140,000. The new additions include:

    Franklin Times (1934-1945)
    Manawatu Times (1929-1936)
    Nelson Evening Mail (1931-1937)
    Northern Advocate (1946-1949)
    Timaru Herald (1921-1928)
    Waihi Daily Telegraph (1942,1945-1947,1949-1950)
    Waikato Times (1929-1935)

If any of you have any issues seeing the new material, try clearing your cookies and doing a hard refresh on the webpage (Ctrl-F5 on a windows machine, Shift-Cmd-R on a Mac), that will sort things out.

Enjoy!

[kiwihalfpint]

What a nice surprise PP ... thanks very much.


Cheers
KHP

[minniehaha]

Oh wow!!! Household chores will be put on the back burner for a while. 

Thank you Papers Past.


Minniehaha.

[kiwihalfpint]

Just as well it is left-overs for tea, nice little snippets about my late father, a little bit teary eyed, but nevertheless, a bit more information I never had.

Cheers
KHP