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Originally Posted by HarryT
My understanding is that the screen supports 16 grey scales, but that the screen controller Bookeen are currently using only supports 4 grey scales. The only 16 grey scale device I'm aware of that's currently on the market is the iLiad.
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HarryT,
I don't know if the Vizplex screen *supports* 16 levels of gray, but the test HTML page someone posted elsewhere showing a series of grayscale bars and different font options *DOES* 'appear' to show those same 16 levels on my Bookeen. Remember it is version 0.91 of the firmware and I *think* I read somewhere that the software has a 'smart-dither' so I may be seeing four levels of gray 'dithered' to give the appearance of 16. Unfortunately, the gray bars are reduced in size so that on my Cybook, it's about 1" wide - hard to tell at that size whether the grays are dithered or native.
Also, the grayscale background for the various text running across the top and right side insist upon showing up clear with standard black text.
*HOWEVER*, the Italics/Emphasis, Underline, Subscript and Superscript work great - Blinking doesn't, nor does Strikeout or the variations in font for 'Quote', 'Citation' and so forth. That's because, while you can choose any of seven font families, the Cybook converts *ALL* text to the chosen font - and to the selected font size!!! It does support Bolding, Italicizing and Underlining on a letter-by-letter basis rather than just for an entire paragraph or book.
Derek