Morning from Roy, WA Jeff Zeitlin,

Thank you for the instructions on how to save the magazine to my emagazine collections.

Tom Rux

> On 11/24/2025 3:51 PM PST Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:32:09 -0800 (PST), "Tom Rux - tmr0195 at comcast.net
> (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance Traveller:
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> >Hello again Jeff Zeitlin,
> >
> >I click on the usual download link. The file downloads and opens the
> >magazine in my Firefox browser which has I believe a icon for google drive
> >in the browser window. The document shows as a PDF which the icons for
> >downloading and printing. Opening the file in Acrobat Reader the save
> >button is grayed out. The buttons one that looks like a cloud with an
> >upward pointing and print are active.
>
> OK, this appears to be a change in the way Google Drive handles things.
> Instead of directly downloading (which is what I recall as the behavior of
> the links it produced), it opens the document in the Google Drive PDF
> Viewer. Once it's open, you can use File > Download, or click the Download
> icon in the toolbar (looks like a downward pointing arrow sitting in a
> squared-off 'U' shape, or a '[' rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise). That
> will initiate the download. I've tried this in Chrome, in Edge, and in
> FireFox (all on Windows); in FireFox, it will both download and open it in
> the _Firefox_ built-in PDF viewer; in Edge and Chrome it will simply invoke
> the default download behavior (on my system, Chrome just saves it in the
> Downloads folder; Edge prompts for a location).
>
> If you open the link directly in Adobe Reader, try "Save As..." instead of
> just the "Save" button; Adobe defaults to trying to save to the same place
> it was opened from, which you DO NOT have permission to do.
>
> Note that this is a Drive function, not a change in the link, or in the
> PDFs - if you go back to the older issues, the behavior will be the same.
> I've been using Affinity Publisher for a few issues now, and this is the
> first time there's been a report of a problem; neither earlier
> Affinity-generated PDFs nor Microsoft-generated PDFs from before the switch
> exhibited the behavior being reported here.
>
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