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Old 05-30-2008, 09:15 PM   #1
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calibre problem on MacBook Air

There is a problem with the reader in calibre on the MacBook Air. I also would expect the same sort of difficulty on any small laptop. The problem is that the entire page is not displayed in the window. I suspect because the tool bar for calibre at the bottom of the reader window and the tool bar for the Mac at the top of the screen all eat up room that might be used by the display. The result is that you have to scroll up and down to see the entire content of the window. But if you are the least bit of a clutz when doing the scrolling you don't see the rest of the page but move to the next or preceding page, depending on which direction you are attempting to scroll.

Some thoughts, could the window be made effectively smaller and scale the contents? Could the control for the window be put into a seperate window along side the display window? Could the controls be located along the side of the window?

I have attached a couple of screen shots that show the problem. The reader window extends from just under the the control bar of the Mac to the very bottom of the screen at 1280 x 800 resolution (the max for the MacBook Air)
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