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Moonraker · 03-31-2006, 11:51 AM

Thank you Maple for replying to my message. I followed the link you kindly provided and downloaded the new software applicable to the V2 and V8.

This installed ok apart from two error messages telling me that "Locked File Detected"
(msvcp60.dll and mfc42.dll) I clicked on "Ignore" for both of these and the installation completed. After the obligatory rebooting of the machine I was ready to start some testing.

Opening the Wolf Maker, I first selected an .RTF file filled in a couple of details and selected "Make". The book making procedure completed successfully in a few seconds.

I then opened the Wolf Viewer to inspect the .wol book I had just made. The Wolf Viewer has a different appearance to the Wolf Reader that I had previously installed.
The Wolf Reader looked like a digital image of the Hanlin Ebook Reader (very nice) but the Wolf Viewer is just another ordinary grey Windows programme.

I understand what you say about the Viewer being optimized for the Chinese language and very pleased to hear that work is now ongoing to accommodate English.

I was pleased to see that the problem of words at the bottom of one page being repeated again at the top of the next page had disappeared.
I was also pleased to see that paragraph indents were retained.

However, the code for the text formatting needs a great deal of improvement before it will be acceptable to the book-reading community.
Centering is not centred – it is very much off-centre.
No bold and no italics.
Font size is not adjustable. You can only make the font appear to be larger by making the viewing area larger. (Big Book icon).
Em dashes are not represented accurately. An ordinary hyphen is displayed instead. Hyphens should only be used to join compound words together. They should not be used to indicate a sudden change in thought or pause.
Some punctuation is still being separated from the word it belongs to. It seems strange to see question marks ? and speech marks " and apostrophes ' etc. appearing on their own on the next line.
The copyright sign © (Alt + 0169) is not recognised and shows as a ?
The text frequently appears outside of the viewing area — either to the left or below the bottom of the supposed ebook reading area.
Some words are still missing from sentences.

I am now going to do more tests on XHTML and HTML.

Has anyone else tried the Wolf Software? If so, I should be pleased to hear their comments.

03-31-2006, 11:51 AM	#43
Moonraker Addict Posts: 314 Karma: 1002965 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Device: ILiad. Gen 3, PocketBook 360, Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Oasis 2	Thank you Maple for replying to my message. I followed the link you kindly provided and downloaded the new software applicable to the V2 and V8. This installed ok apart from two error messages telling me that "Locked File Detected" (msvcp60.dll and mfc42.dll) I clicked on "Ignore" for both of these and the installation completed. After the obligatory rebooting of the machine I was ready to start some testing. Opening the Wolf Maker, I first selected an .RTF file filled in a couple of details and selected "Make". The book making procedure completed successfully in a few seconds. I then opened the Wolf Viewer to inspect the .wol book I had just made. The Wolf Viewer has a different appearance to the Wolf Reader that I had previously installed. The Wolf Reader looked like a digital image of the Hanlin Ebook Reader (very nice) but the Wolf Viewer is just another ordinary grey Windows programme. I understand what you say about the Viewer being optimized for the Chinese language and very pleased to hear that work is now ongoing to accommodate English. I was pleased to see that the problem of words at the bottom of one page being repeated again at the top of the next page had disappeared. I was also pleased to see that paragraph indents were retained. However, the code for the text formatting needs a great deal of improvement before it will be acceptable to the book-reading community. Centering is not centred – it is very much off-centre. No bold and no italics. Font size is not adjustable. You can only make the font appear to be larger by making the viewing area larger. (Big Book icon). Em dashes are not represented accurately. An ordinary hyphen is displayed instead. Hyphens should only be used to join compound words together. They should not be used to indicate a sudden change in thought or pause. Some punctuation is still being separated from the word it belongs to. It seems strange to see question marks ? and speech marks " and apostrophes ' etc. appearing on their own on the next line. The copyright sign © (Alt + 0169) is not recognised and shows as a ? The text frequently appears outside of the viewing area — either to the left or below the bottom of the supposed ebook reading area. Some words are still missing from sentences. I am now going to do more tests on XHTML and HTML. Has anyone else tried the Wolf Software? If so, I should be pleased to hear their comments.