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Old 06-12-2010, 02:40 PM   #316
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Yes - it's happening because the book contains paragraphs that consist only of an href anchor. I've changed the way that Freda deals with that; the appearance is better now.
What an odd way to construct an ebook. Thanks for fixing it. For beta 3, I assume?
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I asked about this before, but I'll throw it out again: Can the Max Margin option be made more granular, and allow scaling by a factor of 5 rather than 10? Quite a few ebooks I've tried would be far more pleasing to read if I could set this to 5 rather than 0 or 10.
Done, for the next beta build.
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Old 06-14-2010, 12:28 AM   #318
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Just changing the file name may not be enough - because Freda, for managing its temporary files and bookshelf details, also uses book ID (which you can find in the book metdata). Possibly the different news epubs are being generated with the same ID. That would certainly crash Freda (as for locking up the device, I don't know - but it's clearly a possibility).

The solution: when you have finished reading the news epub, open the library, select the epub in the list and do Actions...>Remove '<whatever the epub is called>'. That will remove the epub from the library and the bookshelf, and will delete all the temporary files associated with it.

To load the next one, do Actions...>Add Books, and then use Add Folder, Add Single URL or Add Single File, as necessary.

Thanks for helping with the Freda testing.

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I will give that a try, so I can re-add a folder that is already in the list of sources? I do not have to remove it first?

I ran into another small thing, is there an easy way to highlight and copy text from a book? I can;t seem to figure out how to do this.

Thanks Jim!
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Old 06-14-2010, 07:25 AM   #319
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I will give that a try, so I can re-add a folder that is already in the list of sources? I do not have to remove it first?
Yes, re-adding information that is already in the library should not cause problems (well ... if it does, please tell me, because it is a bug!).

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I ran into another small thing, is there an easy way to highlight and copy text from a book? I can;t seem to figure out how to do this.
There is not an easy way (because to implement an easy way, I'd need a 'modal' user interface that was sometimes in 'select' mode and sometimes in 'navigate' mode, and I really hate that sort of UI).
There is, however, a complex, kludgy way to do it. Put a bookmark somewhere on the text that you want to copy, then open that bookmark and tap the 'Fetch Book Text' button. This will extract a chunk of text (around 100 words AFAIR) surrounding the bookmark, and put it into the clipboard. You can then switch to another app and paste the text.
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Old 06-16-2010, 03:07 AM   #320
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First I'd like to say that version 2 is a big improvement for reading Chinese ebooks, reflow works very well and I didn't need to force the "characters are words" setting for pages to display well.

I noticed a few issues in version 2 that existed in previous versions as well:
1) Numbered lists don't show numbering
2) Multi-level lists are all shown as one level
3) Inline images in text are shown as separate paragraphs

In addition, when opening Chinese ebooks, I found that processing takes a fairly long time, about 2-3 times that needed for English ebooks (this is may be due to the font more than anything else). If I am switching between Chinese and English books then I would need to change the font by a large amount given that Chinese characters need larger font to be legible. Currently it re-processes the book each font+ or font- step. To make things faster, it would be nice for the font to have a selectable range (similar to that in version 1.1) and do processing once the new font is selected and confirmed.

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Old 06-16-2010, 04:09 AM   #321
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I noticed a few issues in version 2 that existed in previous versions as well:
1) Numbered lists don't show numbering
2) Multi-level lists are all shown as one level
3) Inline images in text are shown as separate paragraphs
Acknowledged. Sorting these points out would require a major rework of the way the program handles layout - and it's not going to happen in the near future.
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To make things faster, it would be nice for the font to have a selectable range (similar to that in version 1.1) and do processing once the new font is selected and confirmed.
It's there already (though maybe not obvious). At the top of the 'Settings' screen there is a 'Text Appearance' panel. Tap on that, and you can set font size and other things.
If you have one bunch of settings you like for English books and another for Chinese, you could use the 'save preset' (on the Settings screen) to save them as presets (called 'English' and 'Chinese', maybe), and then you can bring those settings back just by loading the relevant preset. It's all on the 'Actions...' menu button on the 'Settings' screen.
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Old 06-16-2010, 09:01 AM   #322
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How does this basically differ from Adobe PDF reader?
In two ways:
1) It's not from Adobe
2) It's not a PDF reader



But all facetiousness aside, (1) means that it's free software, not tied to any particular manufacturer (actually, it's open-source, meaning that I publish the source code, so anyone else is free to modify and re-publish it, subject to GPL2 conditions). And (2) means you can't read PDFs with it. Actually, I'd not recommend reading PDFs on mobile phones and suchlike (WinMo or WinCE) devices, because PDF documents don't generally work well on them, PDF layout being non-reflowable. My recommendation would be to use a converter (like Calibre) to convert your PDF into ePub, and then use an ePub reader (like Freda).

If you've got further questions do please ask (post on this forum, or PM, or email to home@jim-chapman.net).

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Old 06-16-2010, 11:34 PM   #323
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Another thing I recently noticed is that in Chinese ebooks I often see paragraphs starting with two ideographic spaces (spaces the size of CJK characters, unicode U+3000) instead of using the default indent, and setting indent to 0. Freda seems to remove these spaces so paragraphs do not have the required indent.
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Old 06-17-2010, 01:27 AM   #324
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Actually, I'd not recommend reading PDFs on mobile phones and suchlike (WinMo or WinCE) devices, because PDF documents don't generally work well on them, PDF layout being non-reflowable. My recommendation would be to use a converter (like Calibre) to convert your PDF into ePub, and then use an ePub reader (like Freda).
While I wouldn't argue with your general recommendation, I do need to point out that some PDFs are reflowable, and you can view them just fine on a WM or WinCE device. But they're bigger files, they take longer to load, and it's just not as good a starting point. Still, a reflowable PDF--if that's what you have to read--is probably going to look better viewed directly as is. Nearly every conversion from PDF to epub that I've attempted has introduced weirdnesses here and there.

It is because PDF is such a popular and common format that I've created a reflowable PDF version of all of my free downloads. It's not my own first choice, but it does work okay.
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Yes, re-adding information that is already in the library should not cause problems (well ... if it does, please tell me, because it is a bug!).
Ok gave this a try. It did not cause a crash (phew ), however it also does not remove the deleted books. So after 3 days I have a library filled with deleted news books which do crash Freda if I mistakenly click one. The only way to remove the deleted books from the library seems to be to go back to removing the source and readding it. I will go back to doing that and and let you know if it freezes my phone again.

If you have the desire at all, I might request a more natural way to refresh (add new books and remove deleted ones) the library. Just a wish .

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There is not an easy way (because to implement an easy way, I'd need a 'modal' user interface that was sometimes in 'select' mode and sometimes in 'navigate' mode, and I really hate that sort of UI).
There is, however, a complex, kludgy way to do it. Put a bookmark somewhere on the text that you want to copy, then open that bookmark and tap the 'Fetch Book Text' button. This will extract a chunk of text (around 100 words AFAIR) surrounding the bookmark, and put it into the clipboard. You can then switch to another app and paste the text.
Thanks Jim! I did discover this work around and it will do for my needs, so no problem. I was just checking if there might be an easier way I was missing.

One future feature question (maybe Freda v5.0), would you ever consider adding the ability to correct/edit books and save the changes back into the ePub?
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If you have the desire at all, I might request a more natural way to refresh (add new books and remove deleted ones) the library. Just a wish .
And not an unreasonable wish either. The obvious answer is to put '[x]' delete icons on each book, or to have a drag-to-dustbin function on the library screen. There are two reasons why I've not done this at this stage:
1) The WindowsForms UI framework does not make that sort of thing easy;
2) It would be incompatible with non-touch screens. And I'm trying keep the main part of the Freda code-base the same, across the 'touch' and 'non-touch' builds.

The Windows Phone 7 version of Freda will certainly have a more intuitive UI for library and bookshelf management, because:
1) Silverlight makes this easy to do;
2) There is no 'non-touch' version of WP7.
I don't yet know whether I will back-port that UI into the Windows Mobile 6.x (or earlier) version. To an extent, it will depend on whether WM6.x remains a 'live' platform, after WP7 devices hit the street.
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One future feature question (maybe Freda v5.0), would you ever consider adding the ability to correct/edit books and save the changes back into the ePub?
It seems unlikely. The 'phone' form factor is not great for word-processing, even simple word-processing ... and ePub-editing is really a pretty complex kind of word-processing.

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Old 06-21-2010, 12:14 PM   #327
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Thanks Jim! I am not sure if this counts, but I have no intention of moving to Windows Phone 7. If I wanted an iPhone I would just buy one not move to a pale imitation with all the bad and none of the good. I like the phone I have and am willing to stick it out for a while till something really dramatic comes along in a year or so. So I hope you will continue to support Windows Mobile after December.

No problem on the library. Removing and adding the source has not caused another lock up as of yet so its working OK for me. I think once I can totally switch over to Calibre web access in Freda and stop using my SD card as an import path, it seems like this shouldn't be a problem any more.

I guessed as much. Given the way the ePub has to be decompressed to be opened, I figured it was a longshot at best.

Thanks Jim!

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A bug, if I use Calibre .7x's native content server (instead of the opds generator app), none of the books are displayed.

I just got VPN finally working correctly on my HD2 and its sweet. Streaming my music and videos to my phone from anywhere without privacy slavery . So I switched over to Stanza mode for content serving using the native Calibre webserver.

Authors displays fine but books are not displayed. Is it something I am doing wrong?

A quick request when it comes to this as well. Could you support username/password support for accessign the calibre library?

Thanks!

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A bug, if I use Calibre .7x's native content server (instead of the opds generator app), none of the books are displayed.
Odd. It seemed to work OK for me - so your setup must be different in some way. To debug this, I'm going to need to look at the OPDS catalog that your content server is generating. I guess there are two ways to achieve that:
1) You may be able to get it by typing the catalog URL into an IE/Firefox/Safari explorer window, and then saving the source of the page that you get back. Or if you're familiar with curl, that would be ideal.
2) You give me the details I need, so I can access your content, and I try getting the catalog myself.
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A quick request when it comes to this as well. Could you support username/password support for accessign the calibre library?
I didn't do this so far, because there are quite a few ways that different OPDS catalog providers might handle the passing of usernames and passwords, and it would therefore be something of a never-ending task to implement it. It is on the list.
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Odd. It seemed to work OK for me - so your setup must be different in some way. To debug this, I'm going to need to look at the OPDS catalog that your content server is generating.
I have the same (or similar) problem. I can connect to the server, navigate to authors, and navigate to an author. At this point I see an empty screen. The xhtml for the page that does not display is attached.

I would be happy to give you access to my server, but we need to make arrangements because I kill and restart calibre frequently as part of its development process. I would be happy to post more pages if that will help.

Also, freda does not remember the URL I type in the box. I must re-enter it from scratch each time.

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