1. Opening the paper
- Navigate to EPaper in the site navigation (e.g.
/{locale}/epaper). - A calendar shows which dates have issues. Pick a date — every edition with an issue on that date appears below in the edition grid.
- Click an edition card to open the reader for that date.
2. Cadence colours & badges — know your edition at a glance
Each edition publishes on a cadence (frequency). The site gives every cadence a rainbow colour, shown as the coloured border of the edition's cover and a small badge pinned to the bottom-left corner of the card:
| Cadence | Colour | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Daily | dark golden | A fresh issue every day |
| Weekly | amber | One issue per week (e.g. a weekly digest) |
| Fortnightly | teal | One issue every two weeks (e.g. a magazine-style edition) |
| Monthly | violet | One issue per month (e.g. a monthly purti) |
| Yearly | blue | One issue per year (e.g. a special edition) |
| Permanent | green | Always available (e.g. a collector's issue) |
Editions are always listed in cadence order: all daily first, then weekly, then fortnightly, then monthly, then yearly, and permanent last — so the paper you read today is always at the top.
3. When is an edition available?
An edition appears on the grid for every date inside its publishing period:
- Daily — only on the exact day of its issue.
- Weekly — for the whole week of its issue (Monday to Sunday).
- Fortnightly — for the whole fortnight of its issue (the 1st–15th, or the 16th to the end of the month).
- Monthly — for the whole month of its issue.
- Yearly — for the whole year of its issue.
- Permanent — on every date, always.
This is why a weekly digest you saw yesterday is still listed today, but a daily issue from last week is gone — open an older date on the calendar to browse what was published then.
4. Thumbnail display
Every epaper page thumbnail is always shown as an upright portrait newspaper page in a fixed 3:4 frame — thumbnails never flip to landscape. If a source scan happens to be wider than it is tall (for example a double-page spread), it is scaled to fit inside the portrait frame and centred with equal blank white space above and below — the entire page stays visible, never cropped or squashed. (When you actually open the page in the reader, a wide spread is still shown full-width.)
5. Reading an issue
The reader shows two views:
| View | What it does |
|---|---|
| Page grid | Thumbnails of all pages. Click any page to open the full reader. |
| Full reader | Large page view with a page-thumbnail sidebar on the left. |
- Pages always shown whole — every page thumbnail renders at its natural shape: normal pages upright (portrait), and wide double-page spreads (e.g. Purti pages 4–5) at full width. Pages are never cropped or squashed, so the entire newspaper page is visible at a glance.
- Switch pages — click a thumbnail in the sidebar, or use the page grid.
- "From {edition}" badge — when a minor edition shares pages with a major edition, the pages it doesn't publish itself come from the fallback edition and are labelled so you know which paper you are actually reading.
- Dark mode — the reader follows the site theme.
ℹ️ Editions name their page files with a 3–6 letter prefix (e.g.
srt01.webporrajkot01.webp). The reader resolves, orders and displays these automatically — nothing changes for you when an edition uses a longer prefix.
6. Zooming and panning
Click the yellow ZOOM button (top-right of the reader) to open the full-screen viewer:
- Zoom in / out — mouse wheel, the + / − toolbar buttons, or the keyboard + / − keys. Range is 1×–4×.
- Pan — drag the page with the mouse (or your finger on touch screens) while zoomed in.
- Double-click — toggles between 2× and 1×.
- Reset — the reset button (or double-click at 2×) returns to 1×.
- Close — the ✕ button or Esc.
7. Downloading
Two download buttons sit at the bottom-right of the reader:
- Download — saves the page you're currently viewing as a single A4 PDF.
- Download all — compiles the whole issue into one multi-page A4 PDF (landscape pages rotate automatically).
Both re-encode the pages in your browser, so they work even when the page images arrive from elsewhere.
8. Browsing older issues
- In the reader, the calendar (top of the page) lists only dates that have an issue for this edition — pick any date to jump straight to that issue.
- Back on the EPaper home page, choose any date with issues from the calendar to browse that day's editions.
9. Date & tithi bar
The date bar at the top of the paper combines the newspaper date with the Hindu calendar:
- The ‹ / › arrows and the big date button (opens the calendar) move between days; future dates are disabled.
- Directly under the date, the Aaj / Today button jumps back to the current day (disabled when already on today), and beside it the Amavasyant / Poornimant button switches the lunar reckoning used for the Gujarati tithi line under the date. It shows the system currently in use — click to flip. The paper's date itself never changes when you toggle.
Troubleshooting
- A page won't load — refresh the page or switch to the previous/next thumbnail and back. If it persists, that page of the issue may not be available. Please report it to us.
- An edition I expected isn't in the grid — check its cadence window (section 3); weekly, monthly and yearly issues only show inside their period. Permanent editions are always there.
- Download produces a broken/empty PDF — some ad-blockers or strict privacy browsers block cross-origin image reads. Try a normal browser window (not private mode), or allow images from this site’s domain.