FindMyPast film strips on census pages- help

[Gadget]

I for one love the new format
Cheers
Guy

Yes, we know!

It's OK on desktop but on a laptop it's too cramped.

PS - and the many on here  don't love it.

[BumbleB]

I'm sure that is very true, Gadget, BUT, are we are all expecting companies to please every one of their clients 100% of the time?  It's impossible and always will be.

I've just looked at the same record on my desk top and on my laptop, and I can't see a difference other than the fact that my desktop screen is larger than my laptop, but it is all in proportion.

I have to agree, in principle, with Guy - I like it. 

[Gadget]

I've said that I don't mind it on the desktop. It's the laptop that makes it clumsy and cluttered* and, as far as I can make out from what people here have said, many people dislike it.  All it needs is an on/off function. It doesn't need to be individually tailored.


*it's like a very bad collage!

[suey]

Unless you have this problem I don't think you quite understand.  I am trying to look at a Military record, I have just measured the portion I can actually see and it is 3 and one quarter inches high and that includes the related materials, linked transcripts and page numbers icons....now do you see the problem?  Anything below is either greyed out or obscured by the film strip, which in itself is another 2 and a quarter inches of, to me, lost screen. That's a lot of scrolling to read the entire image.  It is as others have said, like trying to look through a letter box!

[BumbleB]

My apologies, Suey, but that is quite a small screen = 5.5 inches high!  My laptop, which I consider to be a lot smaller than my desktop, is 8 inches tall, and my desktop is 11 inches high.

[suey]

My apologies, Suey, but that is quite a small screen = 5.5 inches high!  My laptop, which I consider to be a lot smaller than my desktop, is 8 inches tall, and my desktop is 11 inches high.

No problems...I can hide the bookmarks bar, so looking at Rootschat now from tabs bar to toolbar is 6 and half inches, plenty.  But when you're losing half of that it doesn't take long to give you the hump 

[Gadget]

Not sure which OS that you're using suey but, if I just want to look at one page, I right click on the image and then ' view' and view in Photos. You can then enlarge as much as you like 

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[sugarbakers]

As was said in reply #10 on page 2, you can lose/keep the filmstrip by toggling the 'All Pages' button at top right of screen. Now this only applies to portrait format screens, eg mobile or small laptop, but it does give a much clearer page without the filmstrip, though it's not a wide page. I have a large screen desktop, but I can see this happening by dragging the bottom right of the screen to the left and when it changes format I get the 'All Pages' button.
This doesn't solve the problem, but it might help.

[suey]

Not sure which OS that you're using suey but, if I just want to look at one page, I right click on the image and then ' view' and view in Photos. You can then enlarge as much as you like 

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I'm living in the dark ages, Windows 7. I get the option to save or copy.  It downloads ok but the image deteriorates and becomes unreadable on enlargement.
Generally I use FindMyPast as a finding aid and then nip onto Ancestry or Familysearch .  Just a question of getting used to it.

Grumpy in Sussex doesn't much like change for changes sake