Thread: [HELP] Need an advice on editor in BOOX MAX Carta
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Old 08-20-2017, 06:55 PM   #24
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I almost exclusively worked with Kingsoft Office (cn.wps.moffice_eng.apk) 5.7 and 5.12 . The site below hosts from 5.1.2 (Nov 2012) up to version 10.4.3, published two days ago (Aug 18). [...] I will use a few of them to further assess the sluggishness problem on the MaxCarta with the latest firmware.
Actually, starting from version 6, when the brand "Kingsoft" became "WPS", it seems that the severe sluggishness issue that I measured and reported is gone. It seems to work pretty well. Especially the latest version, 10.4.3 (in the previous ones I met various glitches). The main issue with "WPS" (cn.wps.moffice_eng version 6+) vs "Kingsoft" (cn.wps.moffice_eng version <5.latest) is that they removed the "zoom" feature.

Of course, all tested with the original 4.0.4 Onyx firmware.

Nonetheless, although I should be more wary of the reliability of my perceptions for comparisons, I would swear that when I worked on it on the Lynx firmware, Kingsoft was more responsive. I.e.: typing a char made it appear, each keypress a rendering, not buffered and characters appearing in bunches on the screen.

All in all, the latest Kingsoft/WPS (cn.wps.moffice_eng 10.4.3) seems quite usable. Make sure to use (Menu) > View > Wrap text, which is the equivalent of what was and would be called "Web view" ( = wrap in a never-ending column against formatting in pages); make sure that in the app configuration from the firmware interface the arrows mean page-up and page-down instead of volume, so that also on the external keyboard you can use [Fn]+[Arrow-Up] and [Fn]+[Arrow-Down] in case you do not have real keys [PgUp] and [PgDown], etc.
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