A whiney noobie's complaints
Actually, I'm thrilled beyond words, but you seriously don't want me to break into song, so I'll control myself. Biggest problem, by far, is that I accidentally killed my hyper-expensive sound card in my desktop while performing some basic EdGE setup functions, but that can't be blamed directly on the eDgE. Also I dOn'T unDErStanD theIR CApitAlizAtIon, but maybe they're all on drugs, so that's ok.
Couple of problems, queries, and so on.
(!) - external keyboard: is there a way to map some of the keys to functions that you want, specifically the PgUP and PgDown keys don't work, ditto for the del key.
(2) - dumb design decision: putting the 2 usb ports next to each other on the side, so that if you want to tent the thing and plug an external keyboard in, you can't, unless you hang the eDGE over the EDge of something, such as a gecko tank.
(3) - the zoom-annotate problem. I didn't see this exact usage mentioned in the forum; what I want to do (very important to me) is to zoom, make annotations, and then unzoom so that the annotations are very small, smaller than I can write, but still legible. Obviously this can't be done with the current setup. I thought a nice thing would be to view the annotated page on the LED side, plus the annotations would show up in color - that would be excellent, but it doesn't work because if you zoom up so that the whole page doesn't fit on the screen, then only the part that does fit becomes visible on the LED side, even if you try to export the page as a pdf (which would be 100% acceptible to me if it worked but it doesn't.).
(4) Closely related to this is a stylus problem. Trying to control the movement of the stylus very precisely, I find that the actual writing takes places about a millimeter under the tip, not right at the tip. This won't work for me. I'm considering getting a more-comforable stylus, anyway, preferably something with as pointy a tip as practical. (I'm a bit of a pen geek, normally write with dip pens at home, use those new-fangled fountain pens when away, since traveling inkwells are a pain; anyway, I'm used to pressing REALLY LIGHTLY when I write, which is partly due to occasional crapal-tunnel syndrome, so I'm not worried about scratching the screen.) My question is - is the current behavior of my stylus normal? Or do they normal make marks precisely at their tips?
Anyway, I am seriously happy with the machine. Where other people see "clunky," I see reptilian elegance. Boris's welcome basket and other helpful messages have been mega-useful.
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