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Everything Technical About Rapid => Airgun Data => Topic started by: Squinty on July 07, 2022, 07:18:24 AM

Title: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 07, 2022, 07:18:24 AM
taken from the old AGF and originally posted by Rotherham Owl

link to AGW Theoben articles and adverts in three albums

1982 to 1990    https://imgur.com/a/wFDs5x6
1990 to 1999    https://imgur.com/a/HVtyXQh
2000 to 2012    https://imgur.com/a/0385LR5

Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 07, 2022, 03:06:13 PM
Where are the links ?
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 07, 2022, 04:33:54 PM
I was waiting for a reply from the original AGF poster ...but I'll put them up.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Kernal on July 07, 2022, 05:57:42 PM
I will take these files and compact them all into one PDF file and place them into the Downloads section as soon as i can.

Cheers for the link attachment Squinty.

;)
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Kernal on July 07, 2022, 07:00:55 PM
Ok i`ve added the first 1982 to 1990 to our downloads section and i will add the other information that Squinty has uploaded as links to our forum to make them more permanent without needing any outside links to view content,

I will also at a later date credit the upload to Squinty for adding content to this site.

;)
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 07, 2022, 07:11:47 PM
There's nearly 300 images,
#1 covers the pre-rapid gas-rams
#2 inception of the Rapid 7
#3 mk2 and variants.

There's a lot to scroll through in one file

I bought a Zephyr 77k £399 and shook my head at the Rapid for £550 a few years later  ;D
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: jackrooz on July 07, 2022, 07:44:45 PM
what a fantastic read .. thank you very much ..

I remember the launch of the rapid 7 and was the item of my dreams and the item of my father's nightmare .. begged for one couldn't afford it ..settled for a webly mk3 .. hated it and loved it at the same time ..

funny thing is I stil have that webly haven't shot it in 15 20 year


always promised myself a rapid


now own 2 on ticket and a third sub 12 ..and wouldn't dream of changing


have warned my wife I will be buried with mine ..so get me a large coffin ⚰️
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Kernal on July 07, 2022, 07:52:44 PM
All file`s listed here can now be downloaded in our new downloads section, thankyou to Squinty for providing these link`s to us so we can now add them as a permanent file download on our site,

;)
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: jackrooz on July 07, 2022, 07:58:05 PM
I have a nostalgic feeling everytime I open the cabinet.. feel like I back in the shop being handed the mk1 for the first time every time
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 08, 2022, 11:14:47 AM
Have to say I just tried to download part 3 & I've got a lot of random pages from magazine articles with nothing seeming to be in order,
It's also displaying on it's side & when I try to rotate the page it's asking for money ?

Being a total tech luddite, I'm now very confused.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 12:44:50 PM
Quote from: angrybear on July 08, 2022, 11:14:47 AM
Have to say I just tried to download part 3 & I've got a lot of random pages from magazine articles with nothing seeming to be in order,
It's also displaying on it's side & when I try to rotate the page it's asking for money ?

Being a total tech luddite, I'm now very confused.

No idea, I just clicked on the link and the album displays in the same order as it was upload to imgur.
Didn't log in, no adverts, no request for money only an age declaration on pt3.

First three images  should be an SLR98  article from July 2000 through to the last  'Made To Measure' of june 2012

Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 01:06:59 PM
However the PDF in downloads is out of sequence.
Adobe is something that whilst apparently simple to use has frustrated me by doing its own damned thing.

Again I have no idea, I downloaded and saved each one in order and uploaded to imgure en-bloc- where they  display correctly.
Must admit that I never made any provision for them to be downloaded from the host....wouldnt know how.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 01:12:07 PM
In fact all three albums in the downloads section are mixed up.

its probably because each image has a random id assigned by Imgur, the OS automatically puts those in order by name; alphabetically and numerically, size, date/time of creation.
When I saved each image in sequence to my folder they  auto-arranged by download time- and the upload followed suit.





Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Kernal on July 08, 2022, 04:02:17 PM
Quote from: angrybear on July 08, 2022, 11:14:47 AM
Have to say I just tried to download part 3 & I've got a lot of random pages from magazine articles with nothing seeming to be in order,
It's also displaying on it's side & when I try to rotate the page it's asking for money ?

Being a total tech luddite, I'm now very confused.

I`ve just tested the downloads on our download section and they seem fine to me and not asking for any money what so ever, but if your on about the page`s provided by squinty on the other site well i have no idea as to why that would be happening all i did was rip the pages & place them in a compacted version of pdf and upload them to our downloads section as listed in that section on our site.

:)
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 04:18:29 PM
Quote from: Kernal on July 08, 2022, 04:02:17 PM
Quote from: angrybear on July 08, 2022, 11:14:47 AM
Have to say I just tried to download part 3 & I've got a lot of random pages from magazine articles with nothing seeming to be in order,
It's also displaying on it's side & when I try to rotate the page it's asking for money ?

Being a total tech luddite, I'm now very confused.

I`ve just tested the downloads on our download section and they seem fine to me and not asking for any money what so ever, but if your on about the page`s provided by squinty on the other site well i have no idea as to why that would be happening all i did was rip the pages & place them in a compacted version of pdf and upload them to our downloads section as listed in that section on our site.

:)

Perhaps an album, multiple images instead of the single PDF document ?
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 08, 2022, 06:22:05 PM
I've worked out the payment thing,
I had clicked 'rotate image' in 'edit' rather than in 'view' so it was telling me I had to buy 'Adobe professional' or some such to edit the actual PDF,
in 'view' I can rotate what I see on screen but not save the rotation permanently.

I am however still struggling to assemble the random pages in to complete readable magazine articles,
for example;
page 1 needs page 36 to follow on  ??? but page 1 is the second page of the magazine article but I can't find the first page or the last, so I only have the two middle pages  :'(

likewise page 107 & page 104 are a two page magazine spread, I'm not sure if there should be a third page or not ??

still very confusing.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: jackrooz on July 08, 2022, 06:41:43 PM
what I did .. yes Its incredibly tedious . was i screen shot all the pages . assemble them in to a folder on my phone ....
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 07:17:48 PM
For Windows ..

go to the imgur link, just below the title line click on the dots - select download

an Imgur Album  zip file will be created in your download folder

go to download...unzip....to folder of same name, change location to 'pictures'

you will then have a folder with all of the images in numbered order that you can view with your normal photo viewer
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 07:24:56 PM
done?

Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: jackrooz on July 08, 2022, 07:41:55 PM
is there a way to.do it on mobile
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 08:03:57 PM
Quote from: jackrooz on July 08, 2022, 07:41:55 PM
is there a way to.do it on mobile

No idea..maybe if you use the app.

ah.... hidden /private albums

Sorry compressed file is too large to e-mail.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: jackrooz on July 08, 2022, 09:02:14 PM
worked it out.... downloaded the app.... selected each image individually..bosh downloaded in order
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 09, 2022, 01:14:20 AM
Quote from: Squinty on July 08, 2022, 07:17:48 PM
For Windows ..

go to the imgur link, just below the title line click on the dots - select download

an Imgur Album  zip file will be created in your download folder

go to download...unzip....to folder of same name, change location to 'pictures'

you will then have a folder with all of the images in numbered order that you can view with your normal photo viewer

I'll try that tomorrow, all I did was download it as a PDF from the site download section  ???

Well I just tried & got the message "download link expired" but from the first few pages it's completely different to what I got previously using the forum download section  :o
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 10, 2022, 10:26:40 AM
Quote from: jackrooz on July 08, 2022, 09:02:14 PM
worked it out.... downloaded the app.... selected each image individually..bosh downloaded in order

That's what I've ended up doing, & deleted the one from our download section.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 10, 2022, 11:33:31 AM
And yet on desktop /Firefox and laptop/Edge- I just clicked on the imgur download link

(https://i.imgur.com/TTiCJFO.jpg)
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 10, 2022, 07:02:56 PM
Well I've just tried both again,
from your imgur, "download link expired" for the whole PDF, but each page can be done individually,
From the forum download section, again the pages are in random order

At around page 65-66 of your imgur link is a 4 page article from pages 47-50 airgun world 2005,

On my 'forum download' ; article page 48 was my page 1, article page 49 was my page 36, I was unable to find article pages 47 & 50, and the whole download was messed up in a similar fashion with random pages everywhere.

You will still have access to the imgur PDF if you posted it in the first place , same as if I click on a link/photo I have posted, I go in to it via my signed in page on the site, not just the linked photo everyone else see's.
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 11, 2022, 06:40:13 AM
learn something new every day.. I assumed that as I wasn't logged in and able to download the file in order that you and others would be able to do the same.

Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: Squinty on July 11, 2022, 09:18:27 AM
try these

pt1   https://imgur.com/gallery/wFDs5x6

pt 2  https://imgur.com/gallery/HVtyXQh

pt3  https://imgur.com/gallery/0385LR5
Title: Re: Theoben History AGW articles and adverts
Post by: angrybear on July 11, 2022, 11:57:55 AM
Yep that has downloaded as per your reply #17 above, many thanks.
Steve.