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Lady Fitzgerald · 01-01-2011, 09:14 AM

Has anyone had any problems with the Viewer in 0.7.35 (and mayhap earlier)? All of the books I've been reading at home lately (I only use my JBL when I'm away from home) have been scanned PDFs that get read on Adobe Acrobat. When I went to read an ePub last night, I found the "page turn" feature to be slow and annoying so I tried turning it off. That caused the last part of the first chapter to get cut off (I tried it with two different downloaded ePubs). I turned it back on and set it to the shortest page turn speed (0.2). It improved it a bit but I still had to fool around with it quite a bit to get it to stop cutting off chapters. I also liked the scroll wheel to turn pages feature but had to also keep it turned off because I would lose chapter ends. I finally got so frustrated, I uninstalled 0.7.35 and reinstalled the last version I had used: 0.7.31. Even that one was a bit tempermental (I have to use the scroll wheel at the ends of chapters to avoid cutting them off) but it was a lot better (like I said, it had been a while since I last used the Viewer).

Another minor problem I wasn't going to worry about has to do with the new Title Sort field. I like it but when I download meta data using the ISBN number (which is almost always), the Title Sort field doesn't change even if the Title Field does. I have to hit the little button by the Title field to force it to change. Not a big deal but it is another step I have to pay attention to (and I'm so poor, I can't afford to pay attention).

01-01-2011, 09:14 AM	#1
Lady Fitzgerald Wizard Posts: 2,013 Karma: 251649 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tempe, AZ, USA, Earth Device: JetBook Lite (away from home) + 1 spare, 32" TV (at home)	Viewer in 0.7.35 Has anyone had any problems with the Viewer in 0.7.35 (and mayhap earlier)? All of the books I've been reading at home lately (I only use my JBL when I'm away from home) have been scanned PDFs that get read on Adobe Acrobat. When I went to read an ePub last night, I found the "page turn" feature to be slow and annoying so I tried turning it off. That caused the last part of the first chapter to get cut off (I tried it with two different downloaded ePubs). I turned it back on and set it to the shortest page turn speed (0.2). It improved it a bit but I still had to fool around with it quite a bit to get it to stop cutting off chapters. I also liked the scroll wheel to turn pages feature but had to also keep it turned off because I would lose chapter ends. I finally got so frustrated, I uninstalled 0.7.35 and reinstalled the last version I had used: 0.7.31. Even that one was a bit tempermental (I have to use the scroll wheel at the ends of chapters to avoid cutting them off) but it was a lot better (like I said, it had been a while since I last used the Viewer). Another minor problem I wasn't going to worry about has to do with the new Title Sort field. I like it but when I download meta data using the ISBN number (which is almost always), the Title Sort field doesn't change even if the Title Field does. I have to hit the little button by the Title field to force it to change. Not a big deal but it is another step I have to pay attention to (and I'm so poor, I can't afford to pay attention).