Wort Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Hi Amanda I was just trying to access the newsletters but the feb 1997 to june 2000 dont seem to be up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Fixed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 No, sorry!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 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).. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 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. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wort Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 I wish all the old newsletters had much better resolution! I find them hard to read without zooming out, mabe someone has a fix for this problem that can be preformed on my comp? :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wort Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 Hi Kip I now have all the Newsletters on a CD-R, I can send you a copy if you like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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