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An honest question... what does Bluefire have (except DRM) that Marvin already doesn't?
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01-03-2013, 12:10 PM | #408 |
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You're right. It's a beautiful font. I'll experiment with it and try to add it to the very next update.
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I cannot read ePub that has paragraph spaces. That's the biggest issue I have with Marvin. There is currently no way to fix this serious issue with any of the options. So while Marvin has a lot of nice options, I cannot actually use it. Another issue is embedded fonts. A book like 11/22/63 is much better read with Bluefire because the way the ePub is formatted, it uses embedded fonts heavily and works very well. Without the embedded fonts, might as well be reading a straight text file. I am hoping Marvin can be better then Bluefire. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-03-2013 at 12:14 PM. |
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Ok. I'll make sure the update is released as soon as humanly possible. I've added lots of new stuff over the holidays including some deep "under the hood" changes to the layout engine. I'll have to make sure to test it properly before getting it out.
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ePub 3 support (IMHO) should be at the bottom of the list of things to do. There are so few apps/programs to handle ePub 3 and nobody actually sells ePub 3 formatted eBooks. So adding support would be a waste of time (at the moment).
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Another suggestion is ADE style page numbers along with the Marvin style page numbers. That way, we can use Marvin to get a page count that matches apps/programs/readers that use ADE.
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Yes Jon, ePub 3 is currently low priority.
Does anyone have any pointers to some technical info related to ADE page numbers? |
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I was editing my message when you replied. So here is what I added between when you replied and when I finished my edits. 1. ToC (ncx) support. Is there a way to go back to the beginning of an ePub without having to flip pages to get there? I have more suggestions... 1. In the font section, please allow the user deigned fonts for serif, sans-serif, and monospace. I have a book I am reading that uses sans-serif and they get overridden at present. The CSS code is "font-family: sans-serif". They are coming out as serif because of the chosen body font. 2. The gestures that allow us to go back/forward should go to the beginning of the chapter not to the last page and then onto the chapter's first page. Also, make gesturing to goto bookmarks separate from chapters. 3. I have figured out how to get true smallcaps as long as you have them for a given font. I have a smallcaps version of Charis SIL and what could be done is to have the CSS define "font-family: monospace" or "sans-serif" and in the font selector, select the smallcaps font for monospace or sans-serif and it's a go. 4. Be able to pull ePub out of iBooks and Blurefire. That would be a very neat trick to be able to copy eBooks from other reading apps into Marvin. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-03-2013 at 01:04 PM. |
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In the Calibre plugins forum (on MR) is a thread about the Count Pages plugin. You could PM the author on this since Count Pages can count the way ADE counts. Or you could download the plugin and have a look at the code. It's written in Python.
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For font resources, you might want to take a look at openfontlibrary.org - they have some nice SIL licensed fonts. Old Standard serif is especially designed for classicists and linguists (designed for Cyrillic, Greek and Latin), Circus is quite nice and supports just about everything. News Cycle and Linear Regular are nice sans serif fonts (not 100% happy with the kerning on Linear).
Keep up the good work and to some of the other commenters, please try to be a little more appreciative and a little less demanding. Some of the comments border on petulant - considering how responsive Kris has been over the holidays and how many changes he's made in days, having to wait a week or two for testing and app approval is nothing short of astonishing speed! Compared to the dev cycles of other apps, it might as well be instantaneous... Last edited by FredipusRex; 01-03-2013 at 01:09 PM. |
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Hi FredipusRex. Rather than building lots and lots of fonts into Marvin, I'll be working on a cool way to allow users to import theirs.
On the other hand... there are some lovely fonts at openfontlibrary.org. I'm considering adding a nice sans serif to the very next release together with Charis. Any preferred ones? Ideally they should come in Regular, Bold, Italic and BoldItalic styles. |
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While it's not my favorite design, Pfennig supports almost everything - all four styles and nearly every language available. Circus (aka Libertinage) is a family of inter-related serif fonts that have a very broad range as well.
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