Zinio looks awful on new iPad

[Scarpad]

I subscribe to National Geographic in the Newstand and the pictures in that are just stunning.

 

[Hammie]

I've noticed no difference between the last three versions...

What am I supposed to be seeing or experiencing differently?

 

[JimAtLaw]

yes, the WSJ app at the moment is just poor. Very blotchy, of course it simply hasn't been updated. But, i'm surprised since the WSJ is one of the premier reading apps on the ipad, truly showing the power of the tablet device and what the platform CAN offer - and has been a big seller for WSJ, still the largest digital content seller by FAR. I'm just surprised they wouldn't have updated it prior to launch, like the NYTIMES did with THEIR ipad app, which looks great BTW.

The WSJ guys actually wrote me back acknowledging the problem and promising an update to fix the fonts.

 

[blipmusic]

Does anyone know if Zinio (and publishers in general) are moving toward embedded fonts?

Hopefully the download size of retina mags will force them in that direction.

I am looking into getting an iPad soon, but the iPhone version of Zinio pixelates text (everything's an image as mentioned already), which reads dreadfully. Certain zoom levels wreak havoc on many typefaces.

As it stands, web pages read better (since that's native text rendering, of course).

Also Zinio need to fix their interface, though that relates more to the iPhone experience in my case (such as odd choices for portrait/zoom levels).

Does the iPad version also show an almost complete lack of feedback when tapping non-native links/items etc (general interface, outside of reading mode)? E.g. "Did it register my tap?", "Is my net down or is the app fetching data?" (mostly for the shop, list view of mags), "Hmm, maybe I better restart the app- Oh, no there it is. Loaded finally." (shop, mag list view) etc etc

I want to know a tap is registered and I want to know it fetches data (e.g. "stand by, loading"). Magazines downloading show a percentage, however.