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Originally Posted by surrealmind
Has an ever tinkered with a PC .imp viewer program?
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I did, but could never get the SBPubX COM interface to work with my
perl scripts. It may be that the documentation doesn't truly represent how the PC Viewer is invoked, or I just didn't do it right. And I tried a lot of times...
That said, I do like the PC Viewer and never really had any reason to "better" it. In fact, it's a sort of "ROM emulator" in that it displays precisely how the .imp file would be displayed on the EBW1150 (or REB1200) screen. Though with the REB1100 .rb files, it always crashes on me. I guess it's missing other elements of the ETI GUI but for displaying ebooks it's 100% accurate!
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The viewer that comes with eBook Publisher is decent in many ways, but since we can now extract and resurrect annotated .imp files from the EB1150, it would be nice to have the ability to find markups. In fact, simply having the find word feature enabled would be nice.
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It DOES have a (crippled) word find enabled, but is dealt with a in different way than on the reader itself. Just tap the word you want to find
again, and then navigate with the drop-down search buttons to find the next one. However, you cannot use this feature if you don't see the word already on the page, but it will find all occurrences ONCE you locate that word
the first time.
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In short, has anyone looked into the possibility of making a full-fledged (or at least a more-fledged ) .imp PC viewer?
I know it would be an impossibly gargantuan task to start from scratch, but maybe someone has connections over at ETI? Are they still actively developing eBook Publisher? Aware that we can extract annotations and would enjoy a more advanced PC viewer? Willing to release code? Heh, and while I'm in fantasy land here, would it be impossible for ETI to simply release an emulator of the actual EB1150 software?
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If ETI would be willing to share their code, I would certainly look into this!
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Finally, on a more practical level, is there a way to get clean-looking hand-drawn notes on the current version of viewer? I was less than impressed with my barely legible, black-and-white "interlaced" results as shown in the attached screenshot. It's certainly a lot less sharp than the extracted handwriting shown in nrapallo's attached image here (from this thread).
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I extracted my markups' images from the pdf created when it was printed out using the PC Viewer. I just saved the .pdf as images, but you can also just take a screen snapshot of that .pdf when it's displayed.
BTW, how did you get manage to get "interlaced" results?
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Also, I find that bookmarks do not show up in Viewer. Is this normal?
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It's a (another) feature that's not yet implemented, I guess.