View Single Post
Old 10-25-2007, 01:40 AM   #61
jbenny
Addict
jbenny has a complete set of Star Wars action figures.jbenny has a complete set of Star Wars action figures.jbenny has a complete set of Star Wars action figures.jbenny has a complete set of Star Wars action figures.
 
Posts: 323
Karma: 358
Join Date: May 2007
Device: Tablet PC and Nokia N800
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
The eb1150 pre-paginates both choices when the document is created. Sony does this as well when you use connect to get your book but the other tools do not do this for Sony thus the hit the first time you change font sizes. A similar problem exists in Digital Editions but even worse since the pagination isn't saved to you take the hit every time you change font sizes. This can be a significant problem as you point out and I think that the epub standard ignores it.

Dale
Another way to handle pagination is how MS Reader does it. When you open an ebook, pagination is done in the background. While this is going on, you can start reading immediately. If you change font size, another background pagination. I don't know if it saves this information to reuse. I'll have to do a test and see.

Edit: Just did a quick test with MS Reader. I does save the pagination information for an ebook when you change font sizes, but only until you close Reader. This isn't bad, but I think saving this information for the last 5-10 ebooks you read would be a better idea.

An epub reader that did background pagination like MS reader does, but saved that information for re-use would certainly be a workable solution.

Last edited by jbenny; 10-25-2007 at 02:28 AM.
jbenny is offline   Reply With Quote