sort of English Duokan

[CarlBullock]

Is there anyway to get rid of the logo on the main page? and get rid of that hideous font?

other then that this looks great ^^

[Giggleton]

Well I installed this and scratched out the remnants of the Amazon logo on my Kindle, I would also like to be able to get rid of that logo as well as the info bar at the top of the screen while reading as has been suggested.

Is there a way to decrease the spacing between lines? Besides editing the epub?

[FethryDuck]

Question about logo:

see post #664 about editing - so, in theory it is possible to change it. However, Duokan has design and made this program and we are also using it for free. I think they deserve the honour and credit of keeping it. Besides, I think they have made a nice design.

As for the info bar, there has been some problems to eliminate some output, example the clock updates the part - so it seem like a change involved more then first anticipated.

Like to add some comment: - the team seem to have democratic votes as to how and what is implemented.

Some of the changes takes some time to appear. Some ideas seem to be tried and then perhaps discharged as perhaps they did not meet the expectations.

[FethryDuck]

Version Number: 0.5.13.8938 Beta0506
Suitable models: Kindle 2, kindle3 , kindleDX , Kindle DXG
File size: 45.9MB
Updated time : 2011.5.6

download:

http://u.115.com/file/clgp0f7i


Description:
UMD document format , increasing the progress of the save function .

Bug fixes :
1. Fixed PDF document format of comments when the crash restart the bug. ( advice Friends : iamkent)
2. Modified TXT document profile information is displayed on the book garbled bug. ( adviced: yangyue0511)
3. Modified the usb plug, the disk will produce DKDowload folder in question .

[Giggleton]

I've actually gotten used to the title bar and the clock, doesn't seem to drain the battery, about 8% use per book, which is not too bad.

[johndani]

Is there any way to fix the space after apostrophes? It looks like: he' s, they' re - instead of he's and they're.

Any suggestions? I find this as the most annoying thing with Doukan. Great OS otherwise!

[FethryDuck]

@Giggleton: right, but they have included a "Full Screen" option in the system settings, and I would not be too surprised if they include something similar for the other formats. As you said, you may get used to it, but on the other hand - it is actually very much more relaxing without it if you read a lot. I would love to see it as some option.

@johndani: the space after apostrophes should not be too difficult, I would guess. The problem is WHEN they get around to do anything, as this has been reported many times.

I have noticed a few small improvements in this latest version.
- it is now possible to do a printscreen while in the dictionary.
- if you look up a word at the end of a sentence with a puntuation at the end, it will drop that character during dictionary lookup.

It is so nice to see improvements, so I had to include them here.

[johndani]

Aha, I see... good to know that the problem has been reported already

By the way, since you mentioned dictionaries. I can't get it to work. I tried to download both WordNet and The Collaborative International Dictionary of English dictionaries from http://yeelou.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/dict.org/ , and followed instructions on how to install them in /system/dict. It detects the dictionaries under "Dictionary Setup", but it has no words (or glossary...), and it just crashes if I try to enter some letters.

Any ideas what I've done wrong or what could be wrong?

[montalex]

Originally Posted by johndani

Aha, I see... good to know that the problem has been reported already

By the way, since you mentioned dictionaries. I can't get it to work. I tried to download both WordNet and The Collaborative International Dictionary of English dictionaries from http://yeelou.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/dict.org/ , and followed instructions on how to install them in /system/dict. It detects the dictionaries under "Dictionary Setup", but it has no words (or glossary...), and it just crashes if I try to enter some letters.

Any ideas what I've done wrong or what could be wrong?

Try this:

Dictionaries?
Download one of the StarDict dictionary files
http://reciteword.cosoft.org.cn/star...c/freedict.de/ - are all a bilingual
http://reciteword.cosoft.org.cn/star...-dic/dict.org/ - English dictionaries and thesaurus plus other specialist English dictionaries.
http://stardict.sourceforge.net


Where can I find more StarDict download links?
http://reciteword.cosoft.org.cn/star...o/stardict-dic


How do I install a StarDict dictionary file?

Download a StarDict format dictionary from one of the above sites
Extract three files with the following suffixes (using 7-Zip): dz, idx, ifo
The file ending dz is also compressed file so extract open it (again with 7-Zip or similar program)
Now we have four files: Dz Idx Ifo Dict.
Copy the idx, ifo, and dict files to DK_System\system\dict\
Multiple dictionaries can be installed

[above quoted from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?t=105847]

[SunLight]

Will Duokan be supporting Kindle 3.2 KSO (Kindle Special Offers) because although the jailbreak - screensaver/fonts work - Duokan doesn't install successfully?

I wouldn't think it would be that difficult to support since the Jailbreak/Font/Screensaver Hack worked for the KSO.

[axcutul]

Yeah the latest beta works with K3.2SO
you can download it from here http://www.duokan.com/forum/thread-2208-1-1.html
Don't know how to make it into english though...

[FethryDuck]

Version Number: 0.5.13.8941 Beta0513
Suitable models: Kindle 2, kindle3 , kindleDX , Kindle DXG
File size: 46MB
Updated Time : 2011.5.14

Download:
http://dl.dbank.com/c0e0mvtshv


Description:

Bugfix:
1 mobi format settings when turned Shun page incomplete brush
2 into the bookstores , or click OK several times back an instant crash

[dhruvbhutani]

Works on KSO with 3.2.1 ?

Originally Posted by FethryDuck

Version Number: 0.5.13.8941 Beta0513
Suitable models: Kindle 2, kindle3 , kindleDX , Kindle DXG
File size: 46MB
Updated Time : 2011.5.14

Download:
http://dl.dbank.com/c0e0mvtshv


Description:

Bugfix:
1 mobi format settings when turned Shun page incomplete brush
2 into the bookstores , or click OK several times back an instant crash

[reprep]

still waiting for the update which

1) shows latin characters as they should be (ç,ş etc)
2) doesn't put space after apostroph. Seriously that's one major flaw keeping me still at the original amazon firmware.

[FethryDuck]

Originally Posted by reprep

still waiting for the update which

1) shows latin characters as they should be (ç,ş etc)
2) doesn't put space after apostroph. Seriously that's one major flaw keeping me still at the original amazon firmware.

Me too ! - still waiting

Anyway, it cannot be that bad ? Not sure what language you use, but the "ç" works in Portugese, or think it worked. Ok, downloaded a book and was surprised by the result, as it did not show that character.

Strange... looking again for that previous book. I don't speak Portugese, and did only select some random sentence. Google translate seem to say:

"I owe everything, life, education, the position we now have in society.
And you do not ignore the sacrifices that such education has cost you. "

In Portugese:

"Tudo vos devo, a vida, a educação, a posição que ora tenho na sociedade.
E vós não ignoraes os sacrificios que essa educação vos tem custado."

And here is what Duokan shows:

"Tudo vos devo, a vida, a educao, a posio que ora tenho na sociedade.
E vš®s no ignoraes os sacrificios que essa educao vos tem custado."

That is pretty clever, huh ? It simply ignore such letters as "çã", dumping U+00E7 and U+00E3. But then it figure to insert some extra code ( where from is a mystery ), as in the next sentence it replaces U+00F3 with U+0161,U+00AE ! Does it believe it is a registered trademark ?! - is it an example of Duokan artificial intelligence ?

How could I ever have believed it had displayed Portugese ? Well, look at the following printscreen copies !
( I did cut out the above sentences, instead of showing the whole page )

The first - Screenshot-13.png - show the above missing characters. But wait, what did happen to the AI-insertion ? -now it seem correct ?

The second - Screenshot-12.png - is the reason why I did believe it once did display things correct. Checked it byte by byte, and this is actually a printscreen of the same book ! ( I changed fonts, just to check if that had anything to say )

The strange results I got, is by having the book in /documents folder ( which display it correctly ) and by having it in the /DK_Documents folder ( which show missing characters )

Screenshot-11 shows the text marked to digest. The output of the file under /DK_Daochu folder ( they could name it DK_Digest, as well as corrected the menu error "dict" instead of "digest" for exporting it ).

digest-file:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
pg22044

[Digest1]
Tudo vos devo, a vida, a educao, a posio que ora tenho na sociedade.

E vš®s no ignoraes os sacrificios que essa educao vos tem custado.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

As seen, it is dropping the characters which makes it impossible to have it looked up in the dictionary. Furthermore, the bytes offset the character positions for marking the word. The Portuguese input does not hold these characters, so the settings of input language is bogus.


It is too stupid - it could all have been corrected a year ago with some source available, and some joint effort.