May 2011 - Subud Voice
May 2011 - Subud Voice
May 2011 - Subud Voice
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Changes at <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> Harris Smart and Marcus Bolt write...<br />
You'll notice that there are a number of changes in the format of this issue of <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong>. We are extremely<br />
responsive to consumer feedback and so a number of these changes have been made in response to suggestions<br />
that people have made to us. They also reflect out transition from a magazine that was originally in print to a<br />
magazine that is now online only. We are learning all the time and doing our best to make <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> as good as<br />
we can.<br />
1. LESS COLOR. Some people have said to us that there is too much colour in <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> and that when they<br />
print it out, it chews up too much of a colour cartridge. Therefore, with the exception of the front page, we have<br />
decided to make all pages, in black-and-white. Except of course for the colour photos which people like. But we<br />
are no longer printing text in colour. In this way we are responding to consumer feedback and also following the<br />
almost universal practice of e-zines on the Internet.<br />
2. ONE COLUMN. We are no longer doing a magazine in two columns. Several people quite rightly said that it is<br />
extremely difficult to read two columns on the Internet. Again, we are following the almost universal practice of<br />
e-zines.<br />
3. LINKS. As we go along we are increasingly endeavouring to exploit the resources of the Internet for interconnectivity<br />
and so on. So now, if you click on the list of stories on the front page, you will go directly to that<br />
particular story. Web and e-mail addresses are now also LIVE, so that if you click on them you will go directly to<br />
that web page or e-mail address.<br />
4. CLEARER STRUCTURE. Some people have said that they do not like the way stories are not always<br />
contained with pages. They would like a clearer structure and demarcation between stories. So now we are always<br />
going to make sure that major stories begin on a new page. This also makes it clearer to find stories by clicking on<br />
the story LINKS mentioned above.<br />
5. PRINTING OUT A PARTICULAR STORY. Some people have said that often they do not want to print out<br />
the whole magazine but just a particular story. We are not yet quite ready to build this feature into the magazine,<br />
but you can easily do it yourself, using the standard capacity which is in your printer instructions. Every printer<br />
gives you the opportunity to just indicate that you only want to print out certain pages in a document rather than<br />
the whole thing.<br />
As we go on we will be continually endeavouring to improve the magazine, in response to your feedback and also<br />
implementing our vision of everything that an e-zine can be.<br />
Here is some further information for people who have complained about the "chewing up the colour cartridge"<br />
problem.<br />
Printing <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> on a home printer<br />
1. The <strong>Subud</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> Online team envisaged the new magazine as being eventually an e-Zine for the public as well<br />
as our members – and in particular, our younger members – and would contain more stories about <strong>Subud</strong> members<br />
out there, 'in the world', with more interviews, more photos, more graphics etc., and to be read ‘online’.<br />
2. We do not have the resources to prepare and post a black and white version of the magazine.<br />
3. However, for those of us who cannot make the shift to on-screen reading, and have to print out, all is not lost!<br />
There are more economic options as follows:<br />
a) Most printers have a 'mono' print facility. If you go into your on-screen control panel, it should give you a list of<br />
adjustable options on print quality, print speed, print size, paper quality and print colour (either full colour or RGB,<br />
or mono or greyscale). If you choose 'mono', the printer will then interpret the colour values into black/grey and<br />
only bring the black cartridge into play.<br />
b) If your printer doesn't have this flexibility, your computer might, particularly if you have Adobe Reader or a<br />
similar 'pdf' opening program. If you download the pdf document as normal, then open it in Adobe Reader, or<br />
similar program, you should be able to re-save it as a 'greyscale' pdf, which again translates the colour values <br />
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