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Hacker Monthly #17 Free iPad-Optimized Edition [pdf]

27 points by bearwithclaws 15y ago

rcfox 15y ago
What does it mean for it to be iPad-optimized? I skimmed it very quickly, but it looked just like any other issue of HM.
- dspillett 15y ago
  Looks like it is rendered to a page size that is intended to fit nicely on the device's screen at the default zoom/dpi settings without significant borders and have the text at a comfortably readable size. Look at the print preview in Adobe's reader with page scaling turned off and you'll see the difference. The other editions I've looked at would print nicely at A4 size, if this was printed like that the text would probably seem too large.
- bearwithclaws 15y ago
  Different dimension and larger font (the entire layout changed as well because of those). The usual PDF is optimized for print.
kylec 15y ago
Have you considered making an iOS 5 Newsstand version of the magazine?
- bearwithclaws 15y ago
  Yes. In fact, somebody from Apple contacted me about that. Won't be that soon though (especially, need to figure a way to integrate with the current subscribers database).
rb2k_ 15y ago
Why would this be tagged [scribd]? I always thought that "scribd" would denote a link to a scribd.com page with the document, but this is a direct link to a PDF.
- heyitsnick 15y ago
  the [scribd] tag is actually a link to the PDF on scribd, the main headline itself is direct to the PDF.
  - rb2k_ 15y ago
    Oh thanks! Never noticed that
arunoda 15y ago
Is other hacker monthly isssus always free to download?
- dspillett 15y ago
  No. The first few were and a couple of specials have been. but the rest are $3 in digital form. All the content is originally sourced from HN (though some of it may have seen a little editing before being sent to print) and the sources are linked to from the HM contents pages. So for instance the page for last month's edition (which had no free variant at all) can be found at http://hackermonthly.com/issue-16.html http://hackermonthly.com/issue-16.html, and each of the articles in the contents list is a link to the original HN post (and comments) which in turn links to the original content. So you have a choice: 1. buy the print versions and have a nice printed magazine to read on the loo 2. buy the cheaper nicely (and relatively consistently) arranged digital version to read on your preferred device for that sort of thing, or print pages of yourself 3. just used the contents pages as a free curation service pointing you to some articles that are considered particularly good, which you can read as you like and print if you want to take a copy away from computing devices (though you may need to tweak the originals to print nicely, which is done for you if you buy either of the above)
- bearwithclaws 15y ago
  Along with this, the first three issues, and the special issues are free to download: http://hackermonthly.com/issues.html http://hackermonthly.com/issues.html
mijnpc 15y ago
Nice to see that someone actually writes in the title that it's a pdf file. THANK YOU. I don't care that if members here want to give me - for speaking my opinion.

27 points by bearwithclaws 15y ago

rcfox 15y ago

What does it mean for it to be iPad-optimized? I skimmed it very quickly, but it looked just like any other issue of HM.

dspillett 15y ago
Looks like it is rendered to a page size that is intended to fit nicely on the device's screen at the default zoom/dpi settings without significant borders and have the text at a comfortably readable size. Look at the print preview in Adobe's reader with page scaling turned off and you'll see the difference. The other editions I've looked at would print nicely at A4 size, if this was printed like that the text would probably seem too large.
bearwithclaws 15y ago
Different dimension and larger font (the entire layout changed as well because of those). The usual PDF is optimized for print.

kylec 15y ago

Have you considered making an iOS 5 Newsstand version of the magazine?

bearwithclaws 15y ago
Yes. In fact, somebody from Apple contacted me about that. Won't be that soon though (especially, need to figure a way to integrate with the current subscribers database).

rb2k_ 15y ago

Why would this be tagged [scribd]? I always thought that "scribd" would denote a link to a scribd.com page with the document, but this is a direct link to a PDF.

heyitsnick 15y ago
the [scribd] tag is actually a link to the PDF on scribd, the main headline itself is direct to the PDF.
- rb2k_ 15y ago
  Oh thanks! Never noticed that

arunoda 15y ago

Is other hacker monthly isssus always free to download?

dspillett 15y ago
No. The first few were and a couple of specials have been. but the rest are $3 in digital form. All the content is originally sourced from HN (though some of it may have seen a little editing before being sent to print) and the sources are linked to from the HM contents pages. So for instance the page for last month's edition (which had no free variant at all) can be found at http://hackermonthly.com/issue-16.html http://hackermonthly.com/issue-16.html, and each of the articles in the contents list is a link to the original HN post (and comments) which in turn links to the original content. So you have a choice: 1. buy the print versions and have a nice printed magazine to read on the loo 2. buy the cheaper nicely (and relatively consistently) arranged digital version to read on your preferred device for that sort of thing, or print pages of yourself 3. just used the contents pages as a free curation service pointing you to some articles that are considered particularly good, which you can read as you like and print if you want to take a copy away from computing devices (though you may need to tweak the originals to print nicely, which is done for you if you buy either of the above)
bearwithclaws 15y ago
Along with this, the first three issues, and the special issues are free to download: http://hackermonthly.com/issues.html http://hackermonthly.com/issues.html

mijnpc 15y ago

Nice to see that someone actually writes in the title that it's a pdf file. THANK YOU. I don't care that if members here want to give me - for speaking my opinion.