Firmware 2.7 is out!!!!!!!!! - Page 6

vranghel · 10-19-2006, 08:49 PM

The more it looks like a picture the better. The picture at shutdown looks better.
It conveys the message better. When you read a a pbook you CLOSE it when you're done with it, you're not SHUTTING IT DOWN.
What i dont like are the icons in the menus; They could look soo much better, not like thse sharp boxy symbols.

Diode3diodes · 10-20-2006, 02:24 AM

Hello MR community. I have been keeping up with you all and you guys are great.

Anyways, I found a shocker today while in class with my Iliad. I have had the Iliad for about a month and I always go to a routine of cleaning these pesky .DS Store files from my Iliad (I have a Mac and I sort of made a game of throwing the .DS Store file into the trashcan) and today I notice there are no .DS Store files to play with!

Has this been fixed in 2.7 or am I dreaming?

The closing icon is nice but the previous one with the glaring "i" is definitely a more spectacular icon, i think. I mean the S is synonymous with Superman and "the apple with the bite mark" with Apple why not keep the "i" it sort of implies "Irex Iliad product, ...err shutting off now." You know like an insignia.

tribble · 10-20-2006, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diode3diodes

and today I notice there are no .DS Store files to play with!

Has this been fixed in 2.7 or am I dreaming?

In 2.7 all files starting with a . or with an _ are considered hidden files and do not show in the content manager.

irisevelyn · 10-20-2006, 01:25 PM

Hi
I'm thinking about buying an iliad, but one of the things I really want to do with it is to be able to read DIN A 4/ Letter size pdf documents on it. Is it possible with the landscape function to just view half a page at a time?
I know there was some discussion about it on the top, but I'm still not clear on whether that is possible or not and how well it works.
Especially turning pages from the first half of the page to the second, does that work reliably? I imagine it should work fine with the panning function, is this correct?
Thanks!

tribble · 10-20-2006, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irisevelyn

Hi
I'm thinking about buying an iliad, but one of the things I really want to do with it is to be able to read DIN A 4/ Letter size pdf documents on it. Is it possible with the landscape function to just view half a page at a time?
I know there was some discussion about it on the top, but I'm still not clear on whether that is possible or not and how well it works.
Especially turning pages from the first half of the page to the second, does that work reliably? I imagine it should work fine with the panning function, is this correct?
Thanks!

You can read A4 documents. Depending on the font size, a simple zoom, to crop the unnecessary margins, will let you read quite comfortably. Then you can flip pages just with the flipbar.

If the font size is too small for that, then you will have to zoom in further, but then you will have to pan around the documnet. That works fine, but will get quite annoying, if you want to read more than 10 pages.

There is not yet a "width mode" on the iLiad, where you switch to landscape view, scale to page width and then flip from top to bottom of the page with the flipbar and then turn to the next page when you reached the bottom.

If you have a typical document, you want to read, you can upload a page here, and ill make you a photo, on how it looks like on the iliad ind different zoom sizes.

irisevelyn · 10-23-2006, 07:29 PM

thanks tribble, that woulde be really nice.
Can you read the equations, especially the indices? Maybe my eyes are worse than yours, but I cannot really imagine reading this on DIN A 5. I really think just looking at the thing in landscape and turning the iliad would be the best possibility.
This is not possible at all?

tribble · 10-24-2006, 03:36 AM

Hi irisevelyn!

Here are some images of page 3 of your file. please not that the readability of the document is even better in real life, than in the pictures i took.
Depends on how good your eyes are.

1. is standard view with full page zoom.
2. is a 100% crop. Actually the fonts are sharper than on the image. Just have a normal digi and bad light here.
3. is zoomed to crop margins. This way its already readable, but you might have problems with the indizes. But you can easily flip from page to page with just the flipbar.
4. is zoomed to the maximum zoom size. There you can read everything even without glasses.
5. is in landscape mode with a zoom to page width. Here you can read fine, but you will have to pann through the document with the pen, which is not comfartable for reading through the document at the moment.

I hope, an easy landscape view mode which lets you flip though pages with just the flipbar is in development already

irisevelyn · 10-24-2006, 11:40 AM

Thank you very much, you've been very helpful.
That really doesn't look bad.

BACbKA · 02-07-2007, 12:35 PM

isn't it time to unstick this thread?

Alexander Turcic · 02-09-2007, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BACbKA

isn't it time to unstick this thread?

Yeah, good find, thanks for the mentioning.

10-20-2006, 01:25 PM	#79
irisevelyn Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006	pdf again Hi I'm thinking about buying an iliad, but one of the things I really want to do with it is to be able to read DIN A 4/ Letter size pdf documents on it. Is it possible with the landscape function to just view half a page at a time? I know there was some discussion about it on the top, but I'm still not clear on whether that is possible or not and how well it works. Especially turning pages from the first half of the page to the second, does that work reliably? I imagine it should work fine with the panning function, is this correct? Thanks!

10-24-2006, 03:36 AM	#82
tribble iLiad Maniac Posts: 1,382 Karma: 2369 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Device: Bookeen Opus (i love that thing) and iPad (what an irony)	Hi irisevelyn! Here are some images of page 3 of your file. please not that the readability of the document is even better in real life, than in the pictures i took. Depends on how good your eyes are. 1. is standard view with full page zoom. 2. is a 100% crop. Actually the fonts are sharper than on the image. Just have a normal digi and bad light here. 3. is zoomed to crop margins. This way its already readable, but you might have problems with the indizes. But you can easily flip from page to page with just the flipbar. 4. is zoomed to the maximum zoom size. There you can read everything even without glasses. 5. is in landscape mode with a zoom to page width. Here you can read fine, but you will have to pann through the document with the pen, which is not comfartable for reading through the document at the moment. I hope, an easy landscape view mode which lets you flip though pages with just the flipbar is in development already Attached Thumbnails

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10-19-2006, 08:49 PM	#76
vranghel Addict Posts: 285 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Vancouver, Canada Device: Proud Iliad owner	The more it looks like a picture the better. The picture at shutdown looks better. It conveys the message better. When you read a a pbook you CLOSE it when you're done with it, you're not SHUTTING IT DOWN. What i dont like are the icons in the menus; They could look soo much better, not like thse sharp boxy symbols.

10-20-2006, 02:24 AM	#77
Diode3diodes Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2006 Device: Iliad	Hello MR community. I have been keeping up with you all and you guys are great. Anyways, I found a shocker today while in class with my Iliad. I have had the Iliad for about a month and I always go to a routine of cleaning these pesky .DS Store files from my Iliad (I have a Mac and I sort of made a game of throwing the .DS Store file into the trashcan) and today I notice there are no .DS Store files to play with! Has this been fixed in 2.7 or am I dreaming? The closing icon is nice but the previous one with the glaring "i" is definitely a more spectacular icon, i think. I mean the S is synonymous with Superman and "the apple with the bite mark" with Apple why not keep the "i" it sort of implies "Irex Iliad product, ...err shutting off now." You know like an insignia.

10-24-2006, 11:40 AM	#83
irisevelyn Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006	Thank you very much, you've been very helpful. That really doesn't look bad.

02-07-2007, 12:35 PM	#84
BACbKA мокрец Posts: 52 Karma: 28 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Israel Device: palm, iliad	isn't it time to unstick this thread?