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Amanda,

 

 

 

Some items in the news section (NT sales manager and yearly sales results, for instance) are also not working.

 

 

 

Would this have anything to do with the Australia Day outage of the website, when the forum was saying there were no posts and the main page was displaying errors everywhere?

 

 

 

Did anyone else notice that?

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Hi Paul,

 

 

 

The newsletters are now working, but the other bits that I mentioned in the news section ain't, namely "NEW APPOINTMENT - Northern Territory Sales", "Results" and "NEW APPOINTMENT - Brewing Products".

 

 

 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :)

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Speaking of the Newsletter....

 

 

 

Some of us bushies with dial-up connections at the ends of long rural phone lines are having problems downloading the full-featured Adobe thing with all the graphics whistles and bells.

 

 

 

Is it possible to offer a simple text version of Newsletters?

 

 

 

ta

 

 

 

Kip

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Hi Kip,

 

 

 

A handy tip: if you happen to live near a town somewhere, next time your in town, try popping into a newsagency or somewhere that sells magazines. Pick up a computer magazine that has a cover CD. You'll find that most of these have all the latest free programs on them, just like the fully featured Adobe Acrobat readers, as well as many other useful things. You should be able to find whats on the CD in the body of the magazine, to make sure the one you get has what you're specifically after, ie. Adobe Acrobat reader (no point spending $7 if the cover cd doesnt end up having it).. :)

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Thanks Kieran,

 

 

 

I've got the latest Adobe, but that's not the only sort of download likely to 'hang' way out here.

 

 

 

If it hasn't all come through in one stubby, it's not going to appear at all, so I then give up

 

 

 

kip

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bugger.. a couple of other tips, if this sort of thing happens quite often, maybe try one of those download manager programs that can start/stop/pause/resume downloads.. and rather than click on the links to the newsletters which makes them automagically load up acrobat (etc), right click on the link, copy the web location of the file, and paste it into your download programme.

 

 

 

failing that, I have the full adobe acrobat.. I could probably go in there and rip all of the text out and make a file of it for you.. it'd be a lot of work, but there's no reason why it couldnt be done!

 

 

 

eg. Page 2 of December 2004

 

 

 

GLENN'S SHOUT!
In these challenging times I\x92m
proud to say that Coopers
Brewery is doing its bit to make
the world a milderplace.
Response to our new Coopers
Mild Ale has been exceptional
and in this edition of Coopers
Club News Dr. Tim Cooper sheds
some light on the origins of the
newest member of our beer
family.
Other features include an
update on the fortunes of the
Coopers Racing 550 GT
Maranello, and some special
offers, discounts and coupons.
From all the members of the
Coopers family, we would like to
wish you a Merry Christmas and
a happy and safe New Year!
Cheers
Glenn Cooper

Vintage Ale Is Here Again
VINTAGE ALE HAS NEVER TASTED, OR LOOKED BETTER!

The 2004 vintage, which Coopers beer
makers have described as the best yet,
has been released through liquor stores
and hotels around Australia.
As you will see, this latest Vintage has
new packaging, with a picture of the
Brewery\x92s founder Thomas Cooper on
the front label, and sporting a cream neck
foil.
Coopers Managing Director and Chief
Brewer, Dr Tim Cooper, says this year\x92s
Vintage Ale has excellent drinking
qualities. It is the product of brewing with
a selection of barley and wheat malt and
specially coloured malts, which provide a
strong malt character. This is balanced by
a triple hopping with Hersbrucker,
Cascade and Pride of Ringwood hops.
The ale was pitched with a double
pitching of two yeast strains and
underwent an extended primary
fermentation. It was then pitched again
with specially nurtured yeast, which has
been vitalized to enable longevity of
bottle conditioning.
Dr Cooper said it took particular skill to
coax yeast to make very strong beers and
to produce products that were not
excessively rich and cloying. This year\x92s
Coopers Extra Strong Vintage Ale is
7.5% alcohol by volume.
Stored under cool cellar conditions, it will
become more complex and interesting in
flavour for up to two years or more,
rewarding the patient drinker with a truly
distinctive beer.
As many of you know, Coopers Extra
Strong Vintage Ale was first released in
1998, when the beer sold out within five
days. Other brews followed in 1999, 2000
and 2002.

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another thing, the newsletter is a top quality publication. It looks really great, but there's no reason why the file needs to be massively huge. When the PDFs are created, you could produce 2 versions, a high bandwidth version (ie. like it is right now, in all its full glory) and a low bandwidth version with images compressed more heavily - with a slimmer final download size of (eg. 500kb ?).

 

The december 2004 was 1.7meg for 12 pages, and I reckon most of that would've been from the background santa pic on the cover. :)

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Kieran,

 

 

 

Good idea about the low-bandwidth and high-bandwidth versions. Should be simple enough for someone at the brewery to do with Adobe Acrobat.

 

 

 

By the way, you can highlight and copy text from pdfs using Adobe Reader.

 

 

 

Just use the "Select Text" tool.

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if they've been scanned, then you wont have much joy unless someone goes to the trouble of transcribing them, of maybe using OCR to interpret it to vectorised text.

 

 

 

Oliver - thanks, didnt know you could do it just in the reader!

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