Plato: A document reader for PDF, ePUB, DjVu, etc.

[cramoisi]

hi baskerville,
Just to say I got some issues with a DRM-locked epub book in the last release even though I remove the DRM of it to modify its css (got no problem to read it with nickel and koreader).

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by cramoisi

Just to say I got some issues with a DRM-locked epub book even though I remove the DRM of it to modify its CSS.

mupdf will fail to open an ePUB document if it finds any of the following files in the archive:

• META-INF/rights.xml
• META-INF/encryption.xml

If it happens, the following error will appear in info.log: EPUB is locked by DRM.

I found some ePUBs with a META-INF/encryption.xml referencing fonts not used by any of the CSS files and sometimes the encrypted fonts were missing from the archive!

What you can do is remove:

• The links (within the CSS files) to the encrypted files.
• The aforementioned XML files.
• The encrypted files referenced by the aforementioned XML files.
• The references to the aforementioned XML or encrypted files in content.opf.

There's a related bug report.

[cramoisi]

Thanks ! I didn't remove the drm-remanent. I'll add this in my workflow.

[baskerville]

I've released 0.3.9.

The way cropping margins are stored has changed, you'll need to remove the corresponding property in your .metadata.json:

jq '[.[]|del(.reader.croppingMargins)]' < .metadata.json > .metadata-new.json
mv .metadata.json .metadata-old.json
mv .metadata-new.json .metadata.json

The mupdf bug mentioned in a previous post regarding the end of the chapters being randomly swallowed was recently fixed.

New features:

• A long press on the margin cropper icon should now bring up a menu.
• Books can be removed, categories can be added and removed. You can either long press a book, or tap the (lower left) matches label. The Undo entry is in the matches label's menu.
• The frontlight edges interaction can be enabled through the reader.frontlightEdges setting.
• Within the reader, the search direction can be set via the menu brought by long pressing the search icon.

[DobermanS]

Hello
First of all,great work,the app feels much faster than others
A question, is PDF reflow /scaling in future to do list?
Thanks .

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by DobermanS

A question, is PDF reflow /scaling in future to do list?

It might be if I find myself needing it.

[baskerville]

Could someone owning an H₂O 2 provide the outputs of the following commands:

ls /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/als*
cat /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/name

[traycold]

Originally Posted by baskerville

Could someone owning an H₂O 2 provide the outputs of the following commands:

ls /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/als*
cat /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/name

here you are

[root@(none) ~]# ls /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/als*
ls: /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/als*: No such file or directory
[root@(none) ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/input/*/name
cat: can't open '/sys/devices/virtual/input/*/name': No such file or directory
[root@(none) ~]# ls /sys/devices/virtual/input/
mice
[root@(none) ~]# ls /sys/devices/virtual/input/mice
dev        power      subsystem  uevent

[baskerville]

Thanks traycold.

Here's what you might do (the strace binary is attached):

• Within Nickel, open the frontlight dialog.
• Set both AUTO switches to off.
• Run the following command: ./strace -t -y -o strace.log -p $(pidof nickel).
• Set the first AUTO switch to on.
• Wait for 5 seconds.
• Stop the aforementioned command with Ctrl-C.
• Post the resulting strace.log.

[traycold]

Originally Posted by baskerville

Thanks traycold.

Here's what you might do (the strace binary is attached):

• Within Nickel, open the frontlight dialog.
• Set both AUTO sliders to off.
• Run the following command: ./strace -t -y -o strace.log -p $(pidof nickel).
• Set the first AUTO slider to on.
• Wait for 5 seconds.
• Stop the aforementioned command with Ctrl-C.
• Post the resulting strace.log.

H2O2 only has a single slider "auto", related to "natural light" (the one that changes light color at a certain time of the day).
Is your test still relevant? If yes, what exactly should I do?

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by traycold

Is your test still relevant?

No it isn't, sorry about that. I wrongly assumed that the H₂O 2 had a light sensor.

[DobermanS]

Originally Posted by baskerville

It might be if I find myself needing it.

Hope so... Cause PDF's book fonts always to tiny for comfortable reading
Another thing, with smart case reader goes to sleep but don't wakes up,it's
by design ?

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by DobermanS

PDF's book fonts are always too tiny for comfortable reading

I can think of three things that might help:

1. Crop the margins.
2. Fit to width.
3. Landscape mode.

The last two features aren't there yet.

Originally Posted by DobermanS

With smart case the reader goes to sleep but don't wakes up, is it by design ?

No, it isn't. I've found a related thread.

[DobermanS]

Originally Posted by baskerville

No, it isn't. I've found a related thread.

Sorry mate,but the part of "don't wakes up" happens only when in Plato.

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by DobermanS

The "don't wakes up" part only happens in Plato.

If you try to wake a device that was sent to sleep less than 17 seconds ago then it will fail. This is a known problem and it will be fixed.