Freda - ebook reader program for Windows Mobile - Page 17

cbarnett · 03-23-2010, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

The setting most likely to help you is Options>Book Properties>Max Margin. Use a setting of 0% to eliminate all margins, both horizontal and vertical. Quite possibly those large spaces between paragraphs are vertical margins.

If that doesn't help, please email me one of the books that is giving you trouble and I will fix Freda to read it better.

Thanks,

Jim

That did the trick! It was the one setting I didn't change. I feel rather stupid now....

Once again, thank you Jim! This is an amazing piece of work.

cbarnett · 03-23-2010, 11:49 PM

The books are much better formatted now, but I would ask for one small change in the next release if possible, Jim. In the Book Properties, could the increment in selected Max margin options be by 5% steps, rather than 10%? I'd really like that increased control over spacing.

Bald Eagle · 03-24-2010, 08:45 AM

It seems to me that the Max Margin value is applied even when the style sheet defines less (except when the style sheet sets 0).
That is, when the style sheet says margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; changing the Max Margin value to 20% or 30% will increase the margin.

Jim Chapman · 03-24-2010, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bald Eagle

It seems to me that the Max Margin value is applied even when the style sheet defines less (except when the style sheet sets 0).
That is, when the style sheet says margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; changing the Max Margin value to 20% or 30% will increase the margin.

That's right. Really, that 'Max Margin' value works as a scale factor, not a 'cap' setting the maximum margin width. The ugly details are:

1) Freda will look at the formatting info in the style sheet(s) and decide for each block of text what margin it should have above/below/left/right. Freda collapses all the complexity of different margin sizes into a margin size of none/small/medium/large.

2) To turn those 'none/small/medium/large' values into an actual on-screen margin width, use the following lookup table

Code:

            'Max Margin'
              0 10  20  30
none       0  0    0   0
small        0  3   6  10
medium   0  7  14  20
large       0 10  20 30

Those on-screen widths, BTW are measured in units of 'percent of screen width'.

Why did I make it so complicated? You may well ask! I ask the same myself.

starrigger · 03-26-2010, 03:59 PM

Jim, here's a new problem--new in the sense that I don't think I've really used the function until now. I've been trying to use Find, and it's been difficult. When I pop it up, it usually automatically tries to find whatever was last highlighted, or whatever it last tried to find. I had trouble getting to the screen where I could enter a search term and select whether I wanted to search forward or backward. Also, when it searched to the end of the book, it didn't ask if I wanted it to start again at the beginning, or to search backward--both of which are likely alternative choices.

In addition, I thought it might be useful if the arrows (soft keys, I think you call them in Options) could be used to Find Next or Find Previous. Not all the time, but only when a Find function had just been used.

Marseille · 03-27-2010, 06:55 PM

One of the things I'd asked for early on was the ability of the open dialog to see user directories so we could store in categories. Of course I'm new to WinMo, so I'd overlooked something obvious that makes that unnecessary for me.

Of course there's no way that I'm aware of to associate files inside file explorer, but there are plenty of utilities that make it easy -- I just installed WMkits (free), associated epub with freda, and now I'm getting ready to move my entire library both into epub from various formats and onto my device. I no longer have organization concerns relating to that.

Categories in my old Palm version of eReader were one of the few things I've missed since moving to WinMo. Even the WinMo version of eReader sucks in that regard. But this system is actually way better since now I get as many subcategories as I want. All I have left to do is create a shortcut for my spb home screen that opens file explorer straight to my ebooks directory, and I'll be really good to go.

Edit: my shortcut:

Quote:

36#"fexplore.exe" \Storage Card\ebooks

I'd still like to figure out what argument would put file explorer into Icon View (like you get from Start -> Programs) instead of list view, but this is good enough for now. Effective categorization has returned.

carmelra · 04-21-2010, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

Hebrew support (and indeed support for Arabic, and other languages where simple left-to-right ordering doesn't work) will probably have to wait for a few months. It might, in fact, have to wait until version 2.0 (the putative Freda version for WinPho 7).

Jim

Hi Jim,

Any update about this issue? Two months passed and I'm still looking for the Hebrew support stuff.
I'll be happy to assist with samples and QA as needed.

Thanks,

Carmel
Hebrew eBooks at Mendele HeBooks
http://www.mendele.co.il

Jim Chapman · 04-22-2010, 05:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carmelra

Hi Jim,

Any update about this issue? Two months passed and I'm still looking for the Hebrew support stuff.
I'll be happy to assist with samples and QA as needed.

Thanks,

Carmel
Hebrew eBooks at Mendele HeBooks
http://www.mendele.co.il

I will be ready to start testing some time in the next month (it did indeed have to wait for v2.0!).

Jim

bornagainpenguin · 05-04-2010, 10:27 AM

I managed to resurrect my old Dell Axim (had to dismantle it and tape the touchscreen cable--why it worked I don't know, but I'm glad it did!) and so went looking for an ePub reader to compliment the one I use on my eeepc. I found Freda and after figuring out I needed an updated ActiveSync, an updated mobile dot net, etc was happily reading some eBooks. Thank you for this application! At least there is one--all the poor suckers with Garnet Palm devices have nothing at all...(I can say this, as until I resurrected the Axim my main eBook device was a Zire 72s.)

Any way, I am having some issues with eBooks made by the fanfiction site "Twisting the Hellmouth" is there some way someone could test this out and either clarify what I'm doing wrong or chime in and report that this is indeed an issue? To test it out you just have to find a story and select "Whole Story" and choose the ePub option, which will cause the site to create an ePub version of the story sans pictures. Thanks again for this wonderful program...

--bornagainpenguin

PS: AFAIK I am running the latest version of the program for Windows Mobile 2003. I installed via cab since the MSI installer detects the lack of dot net 2.x and refuses to proceed despite having dot net 3.5.x installed.

ashes · 05-09-2010, 09:06 AM

thanks for the share im not great big into technology but i will have my hubby check into it for me!

CyberSmoke53 · 05-10-2010, 11:23 AM

Jim, I want to give you a big thanks for this software! I got V1.1 loaded on my old HP Ipaq Rx 3715 after updating my .net. It works great and I can now read ePub on this older Windows Mobile device.

I use Calibre to convert my ebooks in other formats to ePub formats. Since I can't just sync directly I just have Calibre "save" to a folder on my hard disk and then copy and paste directly to the Ipaq.

starrigger · 05-10-2010, 08:15 PM

Jim -- I have a large book that fails to load properly in Freda. I wonder if I could send it to you privately for testing. (I've lost your email contact.)

Thanks.

Jeff

brabender · 05-10-2010, 08:31 PM

Hello, I discovered Freda yesterday as I was looking for a program to read ebooks in my Xperia X1 (WM 6.1); I have used until now Microsoft Reader (not officially supported in WM), with all the problems derived from the proprietary format, so I figured that it was time to switch to an standard format like e-pub, even if that means converting my library. So I installed Calibre and googled for e-pub readers for WM, Freda was the first result I got, so I installed it (copying and running the .cab as I run Ubuntu and syncing doesn't install programs AFAIK), converted some e-books and loaded them, and it works flawlessly.

One of the features that I like is rotation override: the Xperia X1 has a slider keyboard, if you open it (even a few milimeters), the screen rotates, and if there is an open app like Microsoft Reader, with a book maybe 2000 pages long, when you take it out of the pocket it takes a while to re-paginate; with Freda I can override rotation to 0º and get rid of the problem.

So, thank you for this nice program, and for help me to find this community to talk about e-books. Be kind with my spelling mistakes, english is not my first or even second language.

Marseille · 05-10-2010, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brabender

One of the features that I like is rotation override: the Xperia X1 has a slider keyboard, if you open it (even a few milimeters), the screen rotates, and if there is an open app like Microsoft Reader, with a book maybe 2000 pages long, when you take it out of the pocket it takes a while to re-paginate; with Freda I can override rotation to 0º and get rid of the problem.

Sweet! I've used Freda for a fairly long time and didn't notice that feature. Reps to you sir.

Jim Chapman · 05-13-2010, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bornagainpenguin

Any way, I am having some issues with eBooks made by the fanfiction site "Twisting the Hellmouth" is there some way someone could test this out and either clarify what I'm doing wrong or chime in and report that this is indeed an issue? To test it out you just have to find a story and select "Whole Story" and choose the ePub option, which will cause the site to create an ePub version of the story sans pictures. Thanks again for this wonderful program...

I just looked at it, and I can confirm there is a problem. EPUB files are ZIP archives, and for some reason that website is generating a ZIP format that's incompatible with the ZIP-extractor library that Freda uses. But the file does work with other ZIP extractor programs ...
Bottom line: it may be something I can fix by changing Freda; I will look into it further.
[EDIT: I have found an alternative ZIP-extractor that does understand this format; Freda v2.0, when released, will be able to open this file OK]
Jim

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03-23-2010, 11:49 PM	#242
cbarnett MR prodigal son Posts: 1,085 Karma: 1083739 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	The books are much better formatted now, but I would ask for one small change in the next release if possible, Jim. In the Book Properties, could the increment in selected Max margin options be by 5% steps, rather than 10%? I'd really like that increased control over spacing.

03-24-2010, 08:45 AM	#243
Bald Eagle Connoisseur Posts: 93 Karma: 1228255 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Aura H2O, Aura One, Libra Colour	It seems to me that the Max Margin value is applied even when the style sheet defines less (except when the style sheet sets 0). That is, when the style sheet says margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; changing the Max Margin value to 20% or 30% will increase the margin.

03-26-2010, 03:59 PM	#245
starrigger Jeffrey A. Carver Posts: 1,355 Karma: 1107383 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts, USA Device: Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus, Droid phone, Nook HD+	Jim, here's a new problem--new in the sense that I don't think I've really used the function until now. I've been trying to use Find, and it's been difficult. When I pop it up, it usually automatically tries to find whatever was last highlighted, or whatever it last tried to find. I had trouble getting to the screen where I could enter a search term and select whether I wanted to search forward or backward. Also, when it searched to the end of the book, it didn't ask if I wanted it to start again at the beginning, or to search backward--both of which are likely alternative choices. In addition, I thought it might be useful if the arrows (soft keys, I think you call them in Options) could be used to Find Next or Find Previous. Not all the time, but only when a Find function had just been used.

05-04-2010, 10:27 AM	#249
bornagainpenguin Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nook HD+	I managed to resurrect my old Dell Axim (had to dismantle it and tape the touchscreen cable--why it worked I don't know, but I'm glad it did!) and so went looking for an ePub reader to compliment the one I use on my eeepc. I found Freda and after figuring out I needed an updated ActiveSync, an updated mobile dot net, etc was happily reading some eBooks. Thank you for this application! At least there is one--all the poor suckers with Garnet Palm devices have nothing at all...(I can say this, as until I resurrected the Axim my main eBook device was a Zire 72s.) Any way, I am having some issues with eBooks made by the fanfiction site "Twisting the Hellmouth" is there some way someone could test this out and either clarify what I'm doing wrong or chime in and report that this is indeed an issue? To test it out you just have to find a story and select "Whole Story" and choose the ePub option, which will cause the site to create an ePub version of the story sans pictures. Thanks again for this wonderful program... --bornagainpenguin PS: AFAIK I am running the latest version of the program for Windows Mobile 2003. I installed via cab since the MSI installer detects the lack of dot net 2.x and refuses to proceed despite having dot net 3.5.x installed.

05-09-2010, 09:06 AM	#250
ashes Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	thanks for the share im not great big into technology but i will have my hubby check into it for me!

05-10-2010, 11:23 AM	#251
CyberSmoke53 Enthusiast Posts: 47 Karma: 480454 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Georgia , USA Device: NookColor Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	Jim, I want to give you a big thanks for this software! I got V1.1 loaded on my old HP Ipaq Rx 3715 after updating my .net. It works great and I can now read ePub on this older Windows Mobile device. I use Calibre to convert my ebooks in other formats to ePub formats. Since I can't just sync directly I just have Calibre "save" to a folder on my hard disk and then copy and paste directly to the Ipaq.

05-10-2010, 08:15 PM	#252
starrigger Jeffrey A. Carver Posts: 1,355 Karma: 1107383 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts, USA Device: Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus, Droid phone, Nook HD+	Jim -- I have a large book that fails to load properly in Freda. I wonder if I could send it to you privately for testing. (I've lost your email contact.) Thanks. Jeff

05-10-2010, 08:31 PM	#253
brabender Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 20 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Xperia X1	Hello, I discovered Freda yesterday as I was looking for a program to read ebooks in my Xperia X1 (WM 6.1); I have used until now Microsoft Reader (not officially supported in WM), with all the problems derived from the proprietary format, so I figured that it was time to switch to an standard format like e-pub, even if that means converting my library. So I installed Calibre and googled for e-pub readers for WM, Freda was the first result I got, so I installed it (copying and running the .cab as I run Ubuntu and syncing doesn't install programs AFAIK), converted some e-books and loaded them, and it works flawlessly. One of the features that I like is rotation override: the Xperia X1 has a slider keyboard, if you open it (even a few milimeters), the screen rotates, and if there is an open app like Microsoft Reader, with a book maybe 2000 pages long, when you take it out of the pocket it takes a while to re-paginate; with Freda I can override rotation to 0º and get rid of the problem. So, thank you for this nice program, and for help me to find this community to talk about e-books. Be kind with my spelling mistakes, english is not my first or even second language.