Gary Lewis Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Folks - I've just spent way too long adding 8 brochures to the site, as shown below. That's because the way they were scanned required me to manually crop each and every page - probably a bit over 100 of them. And given the size of the files that taxed my 'puter. But, I need your input regarding how I did the brochures. This time I had them scanned into pdf's at high resolution and put each pdf on its own page. That way you can scroll through the whole brochure w/o having to click on each page. And, you can zoom in up to 12x, and the high res still gives you a good pic. But, there's a downside - the files are large and take a while to load. Some have suggested that I present you with low res jpg pictures, and give you a link via which you can download the high res file. But, many people are reluctant to download things like that, and I don't blame them. Plus, many of the brochures have tables giving specifications that simply cannot be read in low res. And, to me the beauty of a brochure is all the technical info it gives. So, please go look at several of these brochures and let me know what you think. Are the files too big? Do you like the high res? What do you recommend? 1983 Ford Chassis-Cab 1984 Bronco 1984 Ford Trucks 1985 Explorer Program 1985 Bronco 1985 Ford Trucks 1986 Trailer Towing Guide 1986 Ford Trucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I could only get the first two links to come up. The others ones just have blank pages. I dont mind waiting a min for a good image to load and I also like to download so it's always available. I would say whatever makes your life easier. I read the 85 brochure you had on here and liked it so much I went on Ebay and bought my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpin Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I looked at the 1986 Trucks and Towing guides. I like them. It took awhile to load, not too long though, it took me a second to realize I had to be on the brochure to scroll. Was neat to see the towing guide! I use Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 I looked at the 1986 Trucks and Towing guides. I like them. It took awhile to load, not too long though, it took me a second to realize I had to be on the brochure to scroll. Was neat to see the towing guide! I use Chrome. Hmmm, I can get all of them to load. However, it does take a while. Justin - Can you try again, please? The info in the towing guide will probably get added to the Specifications/Towing page. It seems to be easier to use than the info from the owner's manuals and also includes 5th wheel info, so I want to add it to the specifications section. And, I came to that conclusion by clicking the pop-out button and then making the brochure the full width of the screen on this tablet. It sure makes reading the detail in those tables easy. In fact, I just tried it on my iPhone X and it works a treat. I can zoom in and easily read anything on any page, which is not true of many of the other brochures I've added in jpg format. Anyway, please keep the cards and letters coming. I need to know if/how it works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidesm Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Hmmm, I can get all of them to load. However, it does take a while. Justin - Can you try again, please? The info in the towing guide will probably get added to the Specifications/Towing page. It seems to be easier to use than the info from the owner's manuals and also includes 5th wheel info, so I want to add it to the specifications section. And, I came to that conclusion by clicking the pop-out button and then making the brochure the full width of the screen on this tablet. It sure makes reading the detail in those tables easy. In fact, I just tried it on my iPhone X and it works a treat. I can zoom in and easily read anything on any page, which is not true of many of the other brochures I've added in jpg format. Anyway, please keep the cards and letters coming. I need to know if/how it works for you. It must be my phone. I got them to come up this time and I clicked on them again and I just got a blank page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 It must be my phone. I got them to come up this time and I clicked on them again and I just got a blank page. Hmmm. What phone do you have? Works good on my iPhone X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctubutis Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Hmmm. What phone do you have? Works good on my iPhone X. The file size doesn't matter to me, but they look like crap on my laptop and some of them are hard to read the text in. It's like they halfway download and you can see what's coming but it never finishes, it looks like there's more coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 The file size doesn't matter to me, but they look like crap on my laptop and some of them are hard to read the text in. It's like they halfway download and you can see what's coming but it never finishes, it looks like there's more coming. That's strange. They work fine on my two Win 10 machines, my Win 8, and my iPhone as well as Janey's iPad. I've tried Chrome, Edge, and Safari. So, what pages are you having trouble with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctubutis Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 That's strange. They work fine on my two Win 10 machines, my Win 8, and my iPhone as well as Janey's iPad. I've tried Chrome, Edge, and Safari. So, what pages are you having trouble with? Here is the first one, 1983 Chassis Cab: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 Here is the first one, 1983 Chassis Cab: Yikes! I don't understand. Here's what I see on all of my tests across 5 devices and 3 browsers. So what can cause what you are seeing? Have you tried another browser? And, is anyone else seeing it? And then I can zoom in to this size - w/o downloading the file: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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