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Old 09-24-2020, 07:25 PM   #601
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Old 10-15-2020, 05:07 AM   #602
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Old 10-15-2020, 05:46 AM   #603
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Is it possible to add buttons to allow fine tuning brightness setting (as in nickel)? with the actual slider it is a bit difficult to fine tune it.

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Old 10-15-2020, 09:23 AM   #604
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Hi there. Can anyone help me? I have a kindle paperwhite 3 device. I convert a lot of books with the "Caliber" program. I always update and convert books a few months badly. I don't know what setting I should choose. I usually convert a pdf file to a mobi file. The mistake is that in the text if these two letters are next to each other "fi", it will not print. Does anyone know what I should set? I read in Hungarian. My English is pretty weak. Please help. Thanks in advance.
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Old 10-17-2020, 09:35 PM   #605
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Hi there. Can anyone help me? I have a kindle paperwhite 3 device. I convert a lot of books with the "Caliber" program. I always update and convert books a few months badly. I don't know what setting I should choose. I usually convert a pdf file to a mobi file. The mistake is that in the text if these two letters are next to each other "fi", it will not print. Does anyone know what I should set? I read in Hungarian. My English is pretty weak. Please help. Thanks in advance.
This messageboard is for Kobo, not for Kindle. Here is the Kindle forum. You should ask them.

Also, it sounds like your problem is incorrect rendering of ligatures. Try using a different font.

Good luck.

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Old 10-18-2020, 01:13 AM   #606
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My only problem is with the battery icon. It looks like 10% but is really 37. Frankly, it's depressing. Again, ICON, not READING.
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Old 10-21-2020, 03:46 PM   #607
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I just got my first Kobo e-reader a few days ago and I have been trying reading ePubs and PDFs on Nickel, KOReader and Plato. I have to say, out of the three, I like Plato a lot, especially when it comes to PDFs! The UI controls are very intuitive and highlight response is just so smooth and speedy! Thanks a lot for making this

I have a few questions that I cannot figure out for now and would appreciate some generous guidance:

1. Is there an option to save the highlights and annotations/notes to the PDFs and ePub files?
2. Is there a way I can see all my highlights and notes/annotations of a particular file?
3. How can I extract my highlights and notes/annotations?

It seems like what I make on files on Plato stays inside Plato and are only viewable when I read the files on Plato

Some novice feedback that I could provide:

1. I really miss the feature on Nickel that I can slide on the left side to adjust the backlight brightness. The L shape gesture at the bottom left corner for jumping between saved profiles or toggling it on/off could be a workaround but still not as handy as the direct real-time adjustment.
2. The current annotation/note field is limited to one single line, which can be hard to read and adjust when you write longer texts. I also hesitated a bit if I had to hit ‘Return’ on the keyboard or just press anywhere outside the pop-up to save the note; wondered if my note would be saved or discarded.
3. For some reason when I type capital letters and/or punctuations in note/annotation, Plato starts to slow down its response. The delay becomes increasingly apparent even after this annotation/note window has been closed. It eventually froze my Kobo (Libra H2O running Plato 0.9.6) as I continue my reading, highlights and annotation. I had to reboot thrice for reading and noting sparingly a PDF of just 19 pages. :-/
4. I kept digging around for a Setting page at the beginning for customisation and realised there is not really one. Which is fine since all the available options are actually in the menu/navigation most of the time. I was just expecting to have some settings, e.g. on lock screen display.

Once again thank you for making Plato! I hope it will grow more powerful over time.
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Old 10-22-2020, 02:59 PM   #608
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Thanks a lot for making this
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I have a few questions that I cannot figure out for now and would appreciate some generous guidance:
1. Is there an option to save the highlights and annotations/notes to the PDFs and ePub files?
There isn't: I'll have to learn the details of how annotations are implemented in each format first.

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2. Is there a way I can see all my highlights and notes/annotations of a particular file?
There isn't but it shouldn't be too hard to implement: just like the TOC, the annotations could be turned into an in-memory HTML document. In-memory documents (e.g. System Info) can be saved.

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3. How can I extract my highlights and notes/annotations?
You'd have to rely on .metadata.json and .reading-states/*.json.

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It seems like what I make on files on Plato stays inside Plato and are only viewable when I read the files on Plato…
Not exactly (see above).

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Some novice feedback that I could provide:

1. I really miss the feature on Nickel that I can slide on the left side to adjust the backlight brightness.
I'll look into it.

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2. The current annotation/note field is limited to one single line, which can be hard to read and adjust when you write longer texts.
Multi-line input fields are planned.

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I also hesitated a bit if I had to hit ‘Return’ on the keyboard or just press anywhere outside the pop-up to save the note; wondered if my note would be saved or discarded.
The current behavior, which was introduced in response to #72, is to discard the input when tapping outside of the keyboard and input field. Maybe it would make more sense to only close empty input fields?

Would it be less confusing if the keyboard had Validate and Cancel keys?

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3. For some reason when I type capital letters and/or punctuations in note/annotation, Plato starts to slow down its response. The delay becomes increasingly apparent even after this annotation/note window has been closed. It eventually froze my Kobo (Libra H2O running Plato 0.9.6) as I continue my reading, highlights and annotation. I had to reboot thrice for reading and noting sparingly a PDF of just 19 pages. :-/
Unfortunately, I can't reproduce.

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4. I kept digging around for a Setting page at the beginning for customisation and realised there is not really one. Which is fine since all the available options are actually in the menu/navigation most of the time. I was just expecting to have some settings, e.g. on lock screen display.
For now, there's just a Settings.toml.
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Old 11-17-2020, 04:19 PM   #609
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Baskerville,

Thanks for the great reader. It's got a beautiful interface and is very fast!

1. Does this support showing the book cover when sleeping?
2. Is there a way to change the time to 12 hour format?

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Old 11-17-2020, 10:19 PM   #610
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In addition, alignment options don't seem to be working. The book is always justified no matter which alignment seeing I select. Thank you.
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Old 11-18-2020, 09:13 AM   #611
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In addition, alignment options don't seem to be working. The book is always justified no matter which alignment seeing I select. Thank you.
I'm able to change alignment in Nickel but not Plato.

I edited the book in Calibre to be left aligned and now it's fixed. I went into Calibre > Book > Convert Books > Convert Individually > Look and Feel and changed the Text Justification.
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Thanks for the great reader.
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1. Does this support showing the book cover when sleeping?
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2. Is there a way to change the time to 12 hour format?
You'll be able to do that, when the next version is released, by setting a custom time format in Settings.toml:
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Old 11-18-2020, 02:33 PM   #613
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I'm able to change alignment in Nickel but not Plato.

I edited the book in Calibre to be left aligned and now it's fixed. I went into Calibre > Book > Convert Books > Convert Individually > Look and Feel and changed the Text Justification.
Plato's text alignment selector sets the default text alignment. Nickel probably tries to override the main paragraph style.

The proper way to fix this in the document would be to remove the text-align: … declaration for the main paragraph style.
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Old 11-19-2020, 08:38 AM   #614
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Is there a setting option to refresh the screen every chapter instead of every 8 pages (I think) by default?
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Is there a setting option to refresh the screen every chapter instead of every 8 pages (I think) by default?
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