May 2011 - Subud Voice

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