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Mono · 11-01-2012, 07:59 AM

@Booxstor, Janek

First, thanks for new firmware. Many of my dreams became the truth.

I tested it just for an hour, so this is my very instant preview......

I can confirm Janek's issue with old scribles. Or general problem with displaying it, I didn't try to export scribles.

And I also encoutered a bug, when it was not possible to turn the pages using < > buttons. It was possible to turn pages by statusbar slider.

I guess both bugs have the same source, because after setting page mode, etc via menu both problems were gone.

My wild, hopefully qualified, guess is that programmers expect only certain combinations of settings and do not handle consistently not-allowed combinations of settings. Current firmware will not (hopefully) allow user to set not-allowed combinations, but old one allowed it or even the meaning of settings has been changed more or less.

So, if one opens document previously opened by 1.7 firmware and used certain specific settings (I do not know which - I ussually used 2 point page margin selection), then 1.8 firmware might handle it incorrectly.

It would be good handle those "error" states consistently. For example, if stored settings are wrong then use the default (but open the document on correct page, not the 1st one) or something like that...

And do it the same way in all layers of pdf reader, e.g. showing the text and showing the scribles.

In my case after 1st openning of old pdf with many scribles, text was very large (zoomed) and scribles were written over in different "scale", so absolutely displaced.

I was terrified, but after a while of playing with zooms and page settings, things got fine and scribbles are placed correctly. As I said I didn't try export.

The same with not working page turns. After re-setting page settings, everything was OK.

So, this is issue, but only for old documents and it seems it can be easily solved by re-setting page options once. Since then things seem to work as expected. Anyway it would be handy, if it is corrected.

The "issue" seems to be easily solved on user side with not much effort. So, do not panic.

11-01-2012, 07:59 AM	#894
Mono Mono Posts: 699 Karma: 13333 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Boox M92	@Booxstor, Janek First, thanks for new firmware. Many of my dreams became the truth. I tested it just for an hour, so this is my very instant preview...... I can confirm Janek's issue with old scribles. Or general problem with displaying it, I didn't try to export scribles. And I also encoutered a bug, when it was not possible to turn the pages using < > buttons. It was possible to turn pages by statusbar slider. I guess both bugs have the same source, because after setting page mode, etc via menu both problems were gone. My wild, hopefully qualified, guess is that programmers expect only certain combinations of settings and do not handle consistently not-allowed combinations of settings. Current firmware will not (hopefully) allow user to set not-allowed combinations, but old one allowed it or even the meaning of settings has been changed more or less. So, if one opens document previously opened by 1.7 firmware and used certain specific settings (I do not know which - I ussually used 2 point page margin selection), then 1.8 firmware might handle it incorrectly. It would be good handle those "error" states consistently. For example, if stored settings are wrong then use the default (but open the document on correct page, not the 1st one) or something like that... And do it the same way in all layers of pdf reader, e.g. showing the text and showing the scribles. In my case after 1st openning of old pdf with many scribles, text was very large (zoomed) and scribles were written over in different "scale", so absolutely displaced. I was terrified, but after a while of playing with zooms and page settings, things got fine and scribbles are placed correctly. As I said I didn't try export. The same with not working page turns. After re-setting page settings, everything was OK. So, this is issue, but only for old documents and it seems it can be easily solved by re-setting page options once. Since then things seem to work as expected. Anyway it would be handy, if it is corrected. The "issue" seems to be easily solved on user side with not much effort. So, do not panic.