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>> Upon opening, there's a popup that says something like "News from News2PDF.com"--which is blank.
This will be removed. This is the dialog I mentioned in my previous post that will be become a passive entry in the status dialog.
-- Popups on open and close? Nuisance. Two mouseclicks I don't want. The second one should certainly not be included in any paid service;
The first one will be gone, the second one will not likely be visible for paid users.
>>Help button--also unavailable offline=bad.
We originally had a "getting started" dialog that was available offline, we may restore it at your suggestion.
>>if you want it to be *really* nifty, make the whole thing run portable, so that people can install the program on a flash drive & use it in a library or school computer, instead of needing to run on their home computer.
Great idea! That's partly our target market since these users may have home computers but have no Internet access other than the library or school computer.
>>Full explanations is probably too much tech, but people are going to keep asking why the version on their computer doesn't match the one they can Google for.)
We'll have to think about this. We'd prefer to not necessarily tell users how we do it Smart ones (like you) will figure it out. The rest of our users seem to be satisfied that they're getting full-text articles with none of the web page distractions. You're the first to bring up comparing our versions to the web versions - but we'll address it again if it does become an issue.
>>Re: Reader's Digest image--I had selected Reader's Digest. On checking, it has images. They are 1/4" wide thumbnail shots of some sort;
The Readers Digest images are in the specific pixel size that Readers Digest provides them. We don't touch the image sizes, we append them precisely in the form and size as they are retrieved. The images are much larger in Business Week and Wall Street Journal. (you can't see WSJ yet)
>> You're right about duplicates same day; I must've had one of the articles open when I tried to re-run it last night... I don't expect the whole program to crash because of it.
I don't' believe the program crashed. I believe it simply didn't overwrite the file? That's my experience here?
>>Also, there's still the problem that I can't make one set of files for me, focused on sci/tech/education, and another set for my husband. It auto-saves changes into whatever .ini file is open at the time, which means if I experiment with new settings, I lose my old ones.
Bad. Agreed. I believe we're going to emulate the expected "File > Page Settings" screen you've seen in oh-so-many windows applications. You'll be able to select a device, (Sony Reader, PalmPDF, or whatever) and you can overwrite our settings, or restore [Defaults]. I like the drop down options, but we're adding the e-mail-to-kindle feature and user allowable margins, so I believe we'll be switching to a more recognizable "Print Setup" dialog format.
>> If the Kindle & Sony have the same page size, make them a single listing. Every checkbox on the menu should do something different.
I'm not sure if you noticed that all those listings are dynamic and pushed from our server. Since they're not hard-coded, we can change them at any time.
>>If page margins aren't going to be user-adjustable, the "printable" page sizes
As you've seen, some of the publications can generate a few hundred pages. I suppose it's possible people might print these pages - but I can't imagine it. Can you? in any event, we will allow users to set margins in a future version.
>>I have no idea what Kindle users deal with, but I expect it's even more troublesome.
Kindle uses have to e-mail the PDF file to Amazon. There is a 10-cent charge if they have the converted file delivered wirelessly to their Kindle, but the conversion is free if they have the file returned to their computer then move it by cable to the Kindle.
>> I will NOT be downloading four (or more) new versions (at 10 minutes each), as they appear, and installing them, and looking for new bugs caused by the fixes. The "updates" page could possibly include a change log/bug fix listing underneath the "download now" option.
Noted.
Thanks again for your help!
Charles
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