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schweppermann · 08-01-2010, 02:32 PM

Hello,

I am creating some pdf files (from latex) to read on the DR800. Does anyone know the exact screensize of the device (in width x height)? That would be very useful to specifiy in the document creation process.

On a completly seperate question: The reader has a "sort by author" view. After using it for some time, the view seems to sort by the first word that is specified as author. This doesn't seem to be very useful to me, as most of the time the authors are specified in the metadata as "firstname lastname". It appears that the reader thus orders the books by the author's firstname. Does anyone know the real algorithm that the reader uses for sorting? Is the only way to get proper sorting by lastname to change the author metadata to something like "lastname, firstname"?

08-01-2010, 02:32 PM	#1
schweppermann Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: IREX DR800SG	Screensize & sort by author Hello, I am creating some pdf files (from latex) to read on the DR800. Does anyone know the exact screensize of the device (in width x height)? That would be very useful to specifiy in the document creation process. On a completly seperate question: The reader has a "sort by author" view. After using it for some time, the view seems to sort by the first word that is specified as author. This doesn't seem to be very useful to me, as most of the time the authors are specified in the metadata as "firstname lastname". It appears that the reader thus orders the books by the author's firstname. Does anyone know the real algorithm that the reader uses for sorting? Is the only way to get proper sorting by lastname to change the author metadata to something like "lastname, firstname"?