04-06-2010, 07:26 PM | #1 |
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New Revised March Firmware Upgrade Ready
Dear All:
The new revised firmware upgrade is dated April 2, 2010 officially. It is up now on: www.theEZreader.com under "support". It has been up about four hours. Initial reaction is very positive and everybody seems to have zero problems. It was tested by Astak thoroughly and tested by a Beta Tester. It really seems to be helping in many ways. TTS is back, Coolreader 3 is added, the new FB2 is on there, some additional font styles were added, we pray .LIT is finally right, and the battery charge life is back to its old great self. They even changed the date to read:MM/DD/YYYY. For anybody who is relatively new: easy firmware upgrade instructions are on the FAQ sheet at: www.theEZreader.com/html under "support". It is fairly straight forward and the instructions are very clear. This firmware upgrade is for the 5 inch Pocket PRO. The 6 inch EZ Reader Basic firmware upgrade should be ready the end of next week. |
04-06-2010, 07:31 PM | #2 |
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Thanks. Downloading now.
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04-06-2010, 11:44 PM | #3 |
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Accidental hitting of send.
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04-07-2010, 08:31 AM | #4 |
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I have downloaded and installed it; so far so bad, I hope it's only me.
The new firmware constantly locks and freezes the device; I had to press the reset button at the back of the device a couple of times. Moreover the text files are not operated by CoolReader; they are opened old style, I did not understand this. I will update my findings later. Regards. |
04-07-2010, 09:48 AM | #5 | |
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The new CoolReader does open RTF, but haven't tried TXT. I found the RTF with Coolreader will maintain my formating (yeah!), like centering, TOC headings, etc. So I'm saving my files in RTF. Good luck. AJ |
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04-07-2010, 12:39 PM | #6 | |
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Thanks! And hopefully I'm not rambling too much, and what I said makes sense. |
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04-07-2010, 12:48 PM | #7 | |
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The current version from Astak and from Hanlin use this automatically for RTF and FB2 files and can be coerced to be used for TXT and HTML files by adding an extra FB2 extension to the file. I am not sure about TCR files but Cool Reader does support those as well so it is likely to work if anybody still owns any of those. Dale Dale |
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04-07-2010, 01:14 PM | #9 | |
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Good luck. AJ PS: I don't know about Word or other word processors, but Word Perfect has the ability to "paste" without formats and codes. After I've gotten whatever info I want, I "cut" the entire document and "paste" without codes, and it clears all codes out of my file. Then I can start fresh to format it the way I want. |
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04-07-2010, 01:23 PM | #10 | |
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04-07-2010, 01:33 PM | #11 |
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On page 2 of the CoolReader settings menu there is a setting telling CoolReader if you want to honor the books CSS settings or not. I set "preformatted text" to OFF, when I do not want CoolReader using the books formatting. That keeps the paragraph spacing and indents the way I want them instead of what the book may have tried to set them to. Since I build all my own FB2 files, I usually only have to resort to that for EPUB. You can also turn off "embedded styles" if you want to. Of course you can also do all of that in your own format specific CSS in the /crengine folder as well.
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04-07-2010, 01:58 PM | #12 |
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I dont know is this is a bug or is the way the new FW reacts but when i try to change font on a FB2 file after it changes it return to bookshelf, is this normal? (it saves the position before returning to bookshelf so when i open it again im on the same page).
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04-07-2010, 02:01 PM | #13 |
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04-07-2010, 02:25 PM | #15 |
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I have seen that happen too, but only with some fonts, while others just change and resume the book. Another font related thing of no consequence is that if you delete the font that you selected to read in while you are outside of CoolReader it always goes to the Ariel font by default.
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