11-17-2011, 07:00 AM | #31 | |
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As for OpenOffice/LibreOffice, it does support Arabic after setting the configuration properly. For conversion to epub, there is also an add-on, Writer2Epub, that does the job, sorta, but it adds way too many html elements in the epub file, and presumes fonts in the CSS, which I would have to change. I don't really like that conversion. I have used calibre the way you suggest. It is only as good as the xhtml/css editor you use on your epub. I have tried sigil as well, and now like it better than calibre for this purpose. Except that sigil does not support right-to-left editing, and the only free html editor that I have found that does, bluegriffon, is not free for css files, which is the main issue. I have just left the actual Arabic letters intact in my documents, which so far has not been a problem. For turning Arabic html documents into epubs, or combining html docs into epubs, I have found a much better solution than copying to OpenOffice and then converting: I use the GrabMyBooks add-on to Firefox. This produces much cleaner epub files than what Writer2Epub or calibre produce, without a lot of extra garbage. Then I have much less tweaking to do. Hebrew does have many of the same issues of Arabic, but does not have the problem with combining forms -- usually the main problem. Oh, I forgot to note that Arabic TTS support in Pocketbook does not work right. The reading comes out left to right and it sounds ridiculous! Each word is pronounced very nicely though. Maybe I need to go through SVOX on that. I suppose I should open a thread on Arabic in the epub files discussion area, but I get the feeling there are few people interested. Last edited by qariwa55; 11-17-2011 at 07:02 AM. Reason: typo and infelicity of style |
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11-27-2011, 12:33 PM | #32 |
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Hi all,
Can some1 help me please to find the text to speech function for all the promised languages? I just got my Pro 603 and so far its only Eng, Fr, German and Italian languages work for text to speech while it should work in 24 languages. Thanx in advance |
11-27-2011, 02:03 PM | #33 | |
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=112801 Post #6 has the instructions. |
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11-27-2011, 03:22 PM | #34 |
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Avis, we are very happy to help you if you have any questions, but could you please so kind not to post each of your questions three times? Thank you very much!
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11-30-2011, 01:01 AM | #35 |
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Speaking of pet peeves, as a device advertised as suitable for audiobooks I expected better.
What good are the speakers if you have to listen to an entire book in one sitting ? A media player that's suppose to play audiobooks should remember the playlist and the position in the current playing file. |
12-04-2011, 04:22 PM | #36 | |
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To my observation, the actual hardware sensor is quite sensitive and accurate. However, the firmware does only accept certain transitions, instead of simply following the sensor readings. For example it will follow a "portrait" to "landscape" transition (rotating 90 degree from portrait upright to landscape upright), but does nothing if you do a "portrait" -> "lying flat" -> "landscape" transition. Which means, when ever it misses a transition, you first need to go back to the orientation it thinks it is in, wait a moment (try flipping page), and then go in one move to the desired orientation. Just knocking it on your hand / other surface in the orientation you want it to assume will never help, because it will never generate a transition from what the firmware thinks is the current orientation to the desired one. |
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03-21-2012, 08:55 PM | #37 | |
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This, just like you said, reads fine when unvoweled, but when voweled (the majority of epubs I find), it, as you mentioned, comes stand alone. What is the best way to handle this that you have found? Can you explain it in simple terms? Like I have Calibre, but haven't figured out how to embed a font in a way that works (or rather these files read just fine in Calibre, but not on my Pocketbook). And I haven't tried upgrading the firmware. I read the notes, and I don't think it helps with this problem anyways. |
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