On 07/12/2014 11:42, Anne Sherman wrote: > Like others I generally only use this site for the newspapers now. I have a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive for that as well as online library access to Scotsman, Grauniad, Times, 19th Century and 17/18th Century newspapers so never used the more limited FMP access.

MB <[email protected]> wrote on Sun, 7 Dec 2014 at 15:39:40: >On 07/12/2014 11:42, Anne Sherman wrote: >> Like others I generally only use this site for the newspapers now. > > >I have a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive for that as well >as online library access to Scotsman, Grauniad, Times, 19th Century and >17/18th Century newspapers so never used the more limited FMP access. I've just been downloading some newpaper pages via the FMP site. Despite my efforts I seem only to get downloaded PDF files of 400-500 kB, which isn't large enough when I then open and zoom in on them for reading. That's despite the fact that when viewing them on-site I can zoom in on them greatly without seeing any damaging degradation of image. That differs from my experience using the British Newspaper Archive's own website where, afair, if I was viewing a well-magnified full page, I could download it as a file of maybe 2 or 3 MB and have no difficulty reading from it. I'm not sure whether this is due to an intrinsic difference betwen the two sites or to something happening at my end. However, uninstalling the NoScript Firefox addon -- the only recent software I remember installing -- hasn't made any difference. Any suggestions or different experience? -- Iain Archer

"Iain Archer" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > MB <[email protected]> wrote on Sun, 7 Dec 2014 at 15:39:40: >>On 07/12/2014 11:42, Anne Sherman wrote: >>> Like others I generally only use this site for the newspapers now. >> >> >>I have a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive for that as well as >>online library access to Scotsman, Grauniad, Times, 19th Century and >>17/18th Century newspapers so never used the more limited FMP access. > > I've just been downloading some newpaper pages via the FMP site. Despite > my efforts I seem only to get downloaded PDF files of 400-500 kB, which > isn't large enough when I then open and zoom in on them for reading. > That's despite the fact that when viewing them on-site I can zoom in on > them greatly without seeing any damaging degradation of image. > > That differs from my experience using the British Newspaper Archive's own > website where, afair, if I was viewing a well-magnified full page, I could > download it as a file of maybe 2 or 3 MB and have no difficulty reading > from it. I'm not sure whether this is due to an intrinsic difference > betwen the two sites or to something happening at my end. However, > uninstalling the NoScript Firefox addon -- the only recent software I > remember installing -- hasn't made any difference. Any suggestions or > different experience? > -- > Iain Archer I tend to get downloaded pages of 800-900kB Ian, which probably just depends on the paper, but nothing approaching 2-3MB. I believe this is some arbitrary limitation imposed by FMP. I admit that it's frustrating. They probably imagine that the resolution is perfectly readable, and so they don't need to send larger files. My justification for this is that I've previously asked that they support higher magnification on their census images, etc. Rather than understanding that this was to analyse pen-strokes and other image anomalies -- as any genealogist would -- it was implied that the current maximum is perfectly good for normal eyesight. Sigh... Tony Proctor