Trying to read these comics but

heuheuHUE·Dec 28, 2018·2 votes·6,718 views

I tried to read the comics, but its a hassle, because I cannot maximize the comics in order to see them. It only says scroll, but hey, what to scroll when you cannot magnify them, as I'm running a relatively high resolution, and i've tried to use the zoom feature of the browser, but guess what, it maximizes the layout so that the page of the comic stays centered anyway. Only one solution I found was to open each page as an individual picture, and zoom in and out however I like, but doing this for every page... it's annoying.

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RiotBioluminescenceDec 28, 20184 votes

Lots of folks recomending the mobile version, but I understand you want to see it bigger on your monitor. I'm not on the comics team, so consider this work-around advice from another player, rather than anything official - because it's a super crappy bodge! It's for Chrome.

Set the comic viewing options to full-screen, and scrolling (rather than clicking).
In Chrome, right click the page and select "Inspect" or press Ctrl+Shift+I. (i)
Ensure your tool display is docked to the left hand side (click the three little dots in the top-right of the tools panel, and select the second icon in the "Dock side" menu).
Toggle the device toolbar (the little phone/tablet icon in the top left of the toolbar, or Ctrl+Shift+M).
In the device toolbar that appears at the top of the screen, select something like "Ipad Pro" - don't let it pick "Responsive" for you.
In the zoom-level drop down (to the right of the 1024x1366 resolution display) select something to make the page bigger - 150% or 125% work for me.
If your tools panel is taking up too much of the screen, you can grab the handle on the edge of it, and resize it a bit.

And you're done. The pages should be significantly bigger on your big monitor now, despite losing about 20% of the screen to non-comic nonsense from Chrome. When you want to go back to normal reading, just click the X button for the Inspector window, or press Ctrl+Shift+I (that's "i" not "L"). If you want to see the whole page at once, then you can just press Ctrl+Shift+I to toggle back and forth, but it's pretty awkward.

Good luck!

KFCeytronDec 29, 20181 votes

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Lots of folks recomending the mobile version, but I understand you want to see it bigger on your monitor. I'm not on the comics team, so consider this work-around advice from another player, rather than anything official - because it's a super crappy bodge! It's for Chrome.

Set the comic viewing options to full-screen, and scrolling (rather than clicking).

In Chrome, right click the page and select "Inspect" or press Ctrl+Shift+I. (i)

Ensure your tool display is docked to the left hand side (click the three little dots in the top-right of the tools panel, and select the second icon in the "Dock side" menu).

Toggle the device toolbar (the little phone/tablet icon in the top left of the toolbar, or Ctrl+Shift+M).

In the device toolbar that appears at the top of the screen, select something like "Ipad Pro" - don't let it pick "Responsive" for you.

In the zoom-level drop down (to the right of the 1024x1366 resolution display) select something to make the page bigger - 150% or 125% work for me.

If your tools panel is taking up too much of the screen, you can grab the handle on the edge of it, and resize it a bit.

And you're done. The pages should be significantly bigger on your big monitor now, despite losing about 20% of the screen to non-comic nonsense from Chrome. When you want to go back to normal reading, just click the X button for the Inspector window, or press Ctrl+Shift+I (that's "i" not "L"). If you want to see the whole page at once, then you can just press Ctrl+Shift+I to toggle back and forth, but it's pretty awkward.

Good luck!

I poked around that page, and discovered that the layout and whatever's responsible for locking the zoom are handled by a 1MB CSS file. I don't mean to sound harsh, but why is that necessary for a slideshow? Not even a slideshow; an image viewer. Those have been popular on the Internet for a long time and are basically a solved problem. You (meaning the comics team web developer, not you specifically) could... do that. Just take it down a notch from this monstrosity that takes control away from the user and use something simpler. I've been using Highslide.js on my website's image gallery for the last ten years, and it looks fine and works with browser zoom. Even the custom slideshow I wrote for my sister's wedding a few months ago with a wide variety of CSS transitions supports zooming. But this doesn't even need that - you could just slap a centered table onto the page to hold the image and the forward/back links.

I mean, yeah, "don't you have phones", I get it, but... really now.

The IcebornDec 28, 20181 votes

I read my comic on comicology on my phone and I was absolutely able to zoom in so try the phone

RiotWAAARGHboboDec 28, 20182 votes

Comixology has panel view and better zoom tech we don’t have. (As does Marvel’s reader i believe).
Its a better experiance on those readers— than universe imho.

Star GuardíanDec 29, 20181 votes

Quick question, how did the sales on the first issue do in comparison to expectations?

RiotWAAARGHboboDec 29, 20182 votes

donno yet.
( Also I'm on vacation! )

[vlad-salute]

I think the overall + combined book with physical release is important too.

LewanorDec 29, 20181 votes

Rest...

while you can

Have a great holiday .D

DrCyanideDec 28, 20181 votes

Using the zoom feature of my browser until it snaps to "mobile" size (where you just keep scrolling downward) and the font looks as large or larger than what's on the Boards.

Try this: Instead of having your browser take the full width of your monitor, have it only go to half width, then zoom in until it snaps to "mobile" mode. Should be pretty easy to read then, and you'll be able to see the full page (or a good amount of it) at once.