jpotx113
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Posts: 460
What I collect: USA, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Machins, misc. WW
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Post by jpotx113 on Apr 18, 2022 19:09:07 GMT
My CD for the Steiner pages arrived in the mail last Wednesday. Since my computer at home does not have a disc drive I had to wait until today to print them out on my cream-colored 28 pound paper. All I can say is
WOW!
I was making DIY pages for years (of my own pathetic design). I was on the fence for awhile trying to decide if I should buy the disc or not. Now I don't know why I waited so long. I've known about these pages for years; I guess printing them on some decent paper was the deciding factor.
I can't wait to move my German collection over to these pages, followed by whatever catches my eye next.
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Post by printersart on Apr 18, 2022 23:55:21 GMT
Hello jpotx113 : have checked the internet and have not found the steiner CD does it have world stamps , who did you order from , thanks
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khj
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Post by khj on Apr 19, 2022 1:07:29 GMT
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angore
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Posts: 5,345
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Apr 19, 2022 10:07:59 GMT
I consider Steiner's album pages a great asset to the hobby! I use them for my worldwide collection and will make supplement with Steiner like for custom pages (adding varieties, splitting blocks into singles, etc).
Worldwide collectors would be stuck doing their own or buying very expensive pre-printed albums. I recommend printing as you need them. You can also edit the PDF's to add catalog numbers using Adobe Acrobat Reader's comment function.
And, software delivered on a CD is becoming somewhat passé since many devices especially laptops no longer have CD's as standard equipment..
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Mr. H
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Posts: 935
What I collect: US, Netherlands, Whatever suits my fancy.
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Post by Mr. H on Apr 20, 2022 14:06:47 GMT
You can sign up for a yearly digital membership, but if you're like me and are either getting back into your worldwide collections or just starting I think the disc is the way to go. There's no way I can get caught up in a year, so the one-time fee for the disc is a cheaper option.
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jpotx113
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Posts: 460
What I collect: USA, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Machins, misc. WW
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Post by jpotx113 on Apr 20, 2022 15:47:59 GMT
You can sign up for a yearly digital membership, but if you're like me and are either getting back into your worldwide collections or just starting I think the disc is the way to go. There's no way I can get caught up in a year, so the one-time fee for the disc is a cheaper option. My thoughts exactly. I could have downloaded each and every link, or buy the disc and save it to a flash drive. Much easier! I don't collect much of the newer stamps so the annual updates aren't really required, at least for my purposes. |
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angore
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Posts: 5,345
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Apr 21, 2022 10:20:10 GMT
If you use Steiner, you should check the corrections he posts every month. These are prior created pages. It may be newly listed stamps or correcting the stamp box size. I probably sent him a correction about once every two months and her usually posts them several months later. These are free to anyone. The correction file has multiple countries so if you want to update your PDF you need Acrobat full version or other to update the PDF.
For example, I was working with some 90's Hong Kong Machins and noted to him I could not map these to Scott. He checked and realized he had not posted some corrected pages. I still think there is an error in Scott but never got a response to my correction to them.
He told me that he has stopped adding some minor varieties not in Scott (earlier pages often do) since he got complaints from users.
BTW, he started creating these back in the days when not everyone had broadband Internet so PDFs were split into smaller sizes. I wish he would create a country PDF with all pages. By today standards, it would still be quite small. I actually combine them manually to create a single file but due to Scott's organization to have airmails, semi-postal. etc. as BOB you have to rearrange after merging.
Ha!
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Cephus
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Posts: 161
What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Apr 22, 2022 0:09:21 GMT
BTW, he started creating these back in the days when not everyone had broadband Internet so PDFs were split into smaller sizes. I wish he would create a country PDF with all pages. By today standards, it would still be quite small. I actually combine them manually to create a single file but due to Scott's organization to have airmails, semi-postal. etc. as BOB you have to rearrange after merging. I know there's a way to get group PDF pages from there, I have a bunch where it starts in the 50s and goes all the way through to the 80s, hundreds of pages. I'm just coming up blank how I did it. |
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Apr 22, 2022 9:58:25 GMT
I use Acrobat Pro to merge, delete, etc. There are other PDF software that should do it for free or less cost than Acrobat.
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