KPV: a PDF reader for Kindle, based on muPDF, GPLv3

[jacobmars]

Originally Posted by aliabbasjp

try increasing the values(ms) in launchpad.ini :
HotInterval = 700

Everytime I have to struggle for entering PDFviewer, even I changed interval=700, can I change the shift+P+D to something else, such as shift+shift+E (enter)? I think double shift is easier to operate.

[dracodoc]

You can try to press + until satisfied for certain pdf, then look at the .lua file generated belong that pdf. There should be a gamma value in that file, then you can use it as default value in global config file.

This is pure speculation, I didn't try it because I don't want to. But it is simple enough to try.

Update: Upon further reading, maybe there is no global config for this yet (although there is gamma settings in some lua file).

But you really should have a better attitude when you are asking a favor.

Originally Posted by aliabbasjp

Sorry for the terse reply . But you should understand that i dont bother about the technical details of how gamma works. I only wanted a solution to darken my text by default.

[dracodoc]

Did you change both values? This is the value I used.
HotInterval = 1500
InterKeyDelay = 700

Originally Posted by jacobmars

Everytime I have to struggle for entering PDFviewer, even I changed interval=700, can I change the shift+P+D to something else, such as shift+shift+E (enter)? I think double shift is easier to operate.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by aliabbasjp

The one which i quoted says much more:

• An Intelligent fool (geeks??) makes simple things complex.
• A genius makes complex things simple and does NOT TRY to complicate simple things.

This reply feels insulting to me. I hope that was not the intention here.

[swrd]

Originally Posted by NuPogodi

My unofficial patch to kindlepdfviewer-bb5c54d (April, v2). Successfully tested on K3, may not work on DX (because of the function to read the current battery level or of any other reason).

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well,one Trojan (HEUR/Malware.QVM11.Gen)was detectd in the zip files.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by swrd

well,one Trojan (HEUR/Malware.QVM11.Gen)was detectd in the zip files.

What anti-malware program? Are you sure it wasn't just a common false-positive? I scanned it with MBAM and again with AVG. No problems either time. Try scanning it with a different tool.

[hawhill]

It would be a bit complicated to hide malware in the binaries when you could just put quite "regular" malware implementations right into the binaries :-P That said, I never came across such a thing here in this board. But I'm very, very surprised that a Windows AV tool's heuristics trigger on a ZIP containing only Lua files and an ARM (!) ELF (!) executable. As for analysis: geekmaster has said it all.

[NuPogodi]

Originally Posted by hawhill

But I'm very, very surprised that a Windows AV tool's heuristics trigger on a ZIP containing only Lua files and an ARM (!) ELF (!) executable. As for analysis: geekmaster has said it all.

1. Actually, there were mostly lua-sources, png-icons and one ttf-font. No executables...

2. I still experience serious misunderstanding how to work with Github. Each quite simple operation requires so much efforts which are enough to rewrite 5-6KB of code. So, for testing purposes I give a link for more fresh update (19.05.2012) (not zip, but 7z).

3. What 's new?
Some cosmetics:
- long lines (filenames in 'Document Info') are now splitted in more human-readable way (by spaces, dots, slashes or some other characters - see screenshot)
- the selection of fonts in filemanager (key 'F' or 'Aa') looks now more user-friendly
- fixed too long strings in most menues (TOC, Bookmarks, Fonts...) and in the popup with the reading progress (called by key 'Menu')


A couple of bug fixes and new features:
- the position inside the cr-documents (epub, mobi...) now remain nearly the same after rescaling the document (i.e. changing the font face, size, boldface and interline distance)
- when you open TOC-menu or Fonts Menu, it highlights the current item (i.e. current chapter and current fontface).
- i've a bit changed the way to read the battery level values, it might now work even without Amazon Kindle framework.

PS I apologize, but Github is the real pain in my ass!

[dpavlin]

Originally Posted by NuPogodi

PS I apologize, but Github is the real pain in my ass!

Thanks for your effort, I pulled your changes in https://github.com/hwhw/kindlepdfviewer/pull/170/files

Could you take a look if I missed something? I hope you can continue to make smaller changes and commit them to github at the same time, since huge patches like this one are... huge :-)

Are you using SDL emulation for development? I noticed that your battery fixes doesn't work under it, so you are probably taking harder route of developing on device itself. While it's very valuable to test reader on device, while working with git it's much easier to do changes on laptop and test it right away.

[NuPogodi]

Originally Posted by dpavlin

Thanks for your effort, I pulled your changes in https://github.com/hwhw/kindlepdfviewer/pull/170/files
Could you take a look if I missed something?

Thanks a lot, you've made my day .
Imho, it seems that nothing is forgotten, but the final answer may give only those who tried to apply this patch over the pure last kpdf-version.

Originally Posted by dpavlin

Are you using SDL emulation for development? I noticed that your battery fixes doesn't work under it, so you are probably taking harder route of developing on device itself.

That's true, no emulation. I'm just modifying the code and then testing whether it works on my K3 (or not). Probably, not the fastest way, but it is quite reliable.

[aliabbasjp]

Kudos to NuPogodi and the developer of this software, i only use this new kpdfviewer!. I would like my kdxg to boot only into kpdfviewr is tht possible?

some bugs:
pdf highlighting is very sluggish , Isnt it possible to make the cursor more responsive?

I tend to press the home button by mistake and it exits kpdfvier is there a way to lock my kindle to kpdfviwr?

[reprep]

NuPogodi's version is great. It is nearly a total replacement for kindle OS. Thanks a lot.

I have been reading some .mobis and for some pages, lines are half-cut at the end (or sometimes beginning) of screen. Though the cut line at the end is repeated at the next page, it is still not a nice view.

Is there a chance to specify border widths for all 4 sides (up,down,left,right) or an automatic arrangement which doesn't let cut lines on the screen?

EDIT:Also i noticed in EPUB files some turkish characters are not displayed well. "?" is displayed instead of these characters. MOBIs converted from those EPUB files display fine though.

I didn't encounter this problem in coolreader which shares the same engine i guess.

[Doitsu]

I'd like to test the software. Is it possible to create a build that can be simply unzipped (like Coolreader/fbKindle) and started with Launchpad?

[NuPogodi]

Originally Posted by reprep

Also i noticed in EPUB files some turkish characters are not displayed well. "?" is displayed instead of these characters...

...and changing the font via 'Fonts Menu' does not help? I've experienced similar problem with cyrillic glyphs. I suspect that (in absense of the epub-embedded fonts) the crengine uses default font which probably has no support for unicode glyphs. I've solve this task by direct defining the fontface in ./data/epub.css - say, i've just wrote the crengine has to use Droid Sans. You may try already edited version of epub.css or, alternatively, edit it by yourself.

[ondasalfa]

I hope this patch works in my Kindle DX (G), thanks for your effort......