MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

davros · 09-24-2013, 08:41 PM

I've just installed koreader. I'm astonished at the brilliant text reflow on academic pdfs! Many thanks to those developing and porting the various bits and pieces.

Re: nightly build 521

I also have crashes as Fabry describes switching to landscape mode on an Aura HD 2.8.1 firmware (immediate crash and reboot with 521 and 514, after a few page turns with 504 - didn't test older; additions to koreader_kobo.sh suggested by Markismus post #540 from cgm999 did not resolve this).

The light switches on when starting KO Reader

The device seems to reboot on exit.

Re: highlighting pdfs. This happens to be top of my feature request list.

It is implemented and works perfectly when no zoom or reflow is applied. But highlights before and after reflow are not compatible with different views. Reading A4 or US Letter 2 column pdf documents without zooming is tough on an e-reader.

I need to get my highlighted text out of the device so I had a look at the .lua files containing metadata e.g.
.kobo/koreader/history/[#mnt#sd#] Name of document.pdf.lua
(I have a few crude scripts on the way to get the bookmarks and text out)

I noticed without zoom or reflow, the co-ordinates make sense (they describe a rectangle around text in ptt units) and the text is recorded in a separate field. But with re-flow, the coordinates are somehow translated and text is not recorded.

Feature request: translate coordinates from text re-flow to 'native' pdf page co-ordinates (I'm not sure how 'up-stream' this is; I don't know if highlights are conserved between text reflows on the Kindle version). Translating the co-ordinates is closely related to having highlighting conserved between pdf text-reflows, I believe.

I assume highlighting in landscape mode would use 'native' highlighting co-ordinates. If yes, my needs would be met as landscape mode reading A4 or US letter two column documents is managable on a 6 or 7 inch screen.

Again, many thanks to the developers and other helpful people on these forums.

Dave

PS for new comers, installing KOReader from scratch as of 25/09/2013 (took me a while to pick up all the threads - this worked for me YMMV):

1) Install PBChess that includes Kobo Launcher by sergeyvl12
http://wiki.vlasovsoft.net/doku.php?id=en

bchess-1.2.6
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=201632

(restart and check you see the launcher and it launchers a new menu)

2) Install File Monitor for launching other programs also by sergeyvl12
http://pbchess.vlasovsoft.net/files/kobo/fmon.zip
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=218283

3) install koreader. E.g. a nightly build:
https://code.google.com/p/koreader-p...downloads/list
(copy zip contents to the .kobo folder that appears when you plug your Kobo reader in - at least that's how it is on a linux computer)

09-24-2013, 08:41 PM	#582
davros Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Iliad v.1 and Kobo Aura HD	koreader dev I've just installed koreader. I'm astonished at the brilliant text reflow on academic pdfs! Many thanks to those developing and porting the various bits and pieces. Re: nightly build 521 I also have crashes as Fabry describes switching to landscape mode on an Aura HD 2.8.1 firmware (immediate crash and reboot with 521 and 514, after a few page turns with 504 - didn't test older; additions to koreader_kobo.sh suggested by Markismus post #540 from cgm999 did not resolve this). The light switches on when starting KO Reader The device seems to reboot on exit. Re: highlighting pdfs. This happens to be top of my feature request list. It is implemented and works perfectly when no zoom or reflow is applied. But highlights before and after reflow are not compatible with different views. Reading A4 or US Letter 2 column pdf documents without zooming is tough on an e-reader. I need to get my highlighted text out of the device so I had a look at the .lua files containing metadata e.g. .kobo/koreader/history/[#mnt#sd#] Name of document.pdf.lua (I have a few crude scripts on the way to get the bookmarks and text out) I noticed without zoom or reflow, the co-ordinates make sense (they describe a rectangle around text in ptt units) and the text is recorded in a separate field. But with re-flow, the coordinates are somehow translated and text is not recorded. Feature request: translate coordinates from text re-flow to 'native' pdf page co-ordinates (I'm not sure how 'up-stream' this is; I don't know if highlights are conserved between text reflows on the Kindle version). Translating the co-ordinates is closely related to having highlighting conserved between pdf text-reflows, I believe. I assume highlighting in landscape mode would use 'native' highlighting co-ordinates. If yes, my needs would be met as landscape mode reading A4 or US letter two column documents is managable on a 6 or 7 inch screen. Again, many thanks to the developers and other helpful people on these forums. Dave PS for new comers, installing KOReader from scratch as of 25/09/2013 (took me a while to pick up all the threads - this worked for me YMMV): 1) Install PBChess that includes Kobo Launcher by sergeyvl12 http://wiki.vlasovsoft.net/doku.php?id=enbchess-1.2.6 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=201632 (restart and check you see the launcher and it launchers a new menu) 2) Install File Monitor for launching other programs also by sergeyvl12 http://pbchess.vlasovsoft.net/files/kobo/fmon.zip https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=218283 3) install koreader. E.g. a nightly build: https://code.google.com/p/koreader-p...downloads/list (copy zip contents to the .kobo folder that appears when you plug your Kobo reader in - at least that's how it is on a linux computer)