Hacked Up Reader for epub/fb2/txt/rtf/html/pdb/etc - Page 8

Tsukasa · 04-01-2012, 02:04 AM

screen refresh is useless IMHO
i'm used it a few times for testing only, when reading i forget about it completely

maybe we can use button for more reasonable purposes

fb2.zip is cool, can you upload compiled version?

PS and need numbers in search dialog

lukeroge · 04-01-2012, 04:09 AM

I agree, a compiled version would be great for us who don't have the time to set up a compilation environment.

bhaak · 04-01-2012, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by varnie

by the way, what do you think about the screen refresh? does we need it? as for me, I don't see any reasons for that, but am sure it can be implemented. (we already have "eips -c" for that).

I think too that automatic screen refreshing isn't absolutely needed. Only when going from the menus to the text I often would like to have.

But when only reading text, it's mostly not needed IMO.

varnie · 04-01-2012, 08:52 AM

Hi all.
I uploaded a fresh version.
Tsukasa, in addition to the changes I have already mentioned, it includes the updated Search dialogue you asked for. ^_^
here it is

amalewolf · 04-06-2012, 08:58 AM

hello ,thanks for your work!

i have a question:

the chinese characters can not be displayed correctly，they just some “？”on the kindle touch screen

can you help me ?

thx a lot!

yiming · 04-06-2012, 01:59 PM

@varnie, bhaak

as reported by amalewolf, Chinese characters are not shown in epub books, but txt files are ok. as for mobi books, it seems that books with Chinese titles will crash the reader, whereas those with English titles are ok.

hope you can solve the problems. many thanks.

bhaak · 04-06-2012, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yiming

@varnie, bhaak

as reported by amalewolf, Chinese characters are not shown in epub books, but txt files are ok. as for mobi books, it seems that books with Chinese titles will crash the reader, whereas those with English titles are ok.

hope you can solve the problems. many thanks.

I tested it with the 2 epubs from this link: http://openinkpot.org/ticket/297

Both with the standard and our own freetype library.

test.epub showed only '?' but that was to be expected as I don't have a font on my Kindle Touch that supports chinese characters.

test_embedded_font.epub worked perfect because it had an embedded font.

For testing it would be best if somebody could provide us files that make the program crash (preferably some free samples).

Culex · 04-07-2012, 01:56 AM

Ok, I added HackedUpReader from Varnie. Have to say it's a little different figuring things out. Would be great to sort by Series, and I really don't need to see file extensions, just Titles.

Also I noticed the default ebook viewer has a process called cvm that can use up to 50% cpu usage while cr3 uses a max of about 22%. Yeah.... Longer battery life.

hawhill · 04-07-2012, 06:22 AM

In fact, both readers should need 0% CPU when idle and aquire up to 100% when calculating. The 22%/50% values are no valid measures - at least if you were just sitting and watching the output of "top". If you're interested in getting reliable measurements, I suggest to measure CPU time consumed. Have a look at /proc/<PID>/sched, if you want "hard numbers" :-)
(The CVM will probably have a big startup overhead, which should probably be taken into account.)

amalewolf · 04-07-2012, 07:29 AM

hi,yiming

with my poor english ,i guess your meaning is: in a whole English book,a few chinese words can be correctly show，but in my test:

the Chinese Edition《Steve Jobs:A Biography》 ,when its title is Chinese, the format in txt/epub,the book is "???" ;when its title is English ,the txt/epub also "???".
and for the mobi,if i change a chinese book'titel into English ,it's also only "???".

i don't konw why~~

amalewolf · 04-07-2012, 08:12 AM

hi,bhaak

i test the two epubs ,i have the same result like you.
this is the book only show in "????",you can named them in english but no change in the result;and the ttf in my kindle

bhaak · 04-07-2012, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amalewolf

hi,bhaak

i test the two epubs ,i have the same result like you.
this is the book only show in "????",you can named them in english but no change in the result;and the ttf in my kindle

Ah, so there are two issues:

1. The titles of the books are somehow invalid. They are not valid UTF-8 and that's they can't be shown correctly. There's nothing the program can do about that.

2. The fonts in the books aren't showing up. For the epub there's a work-around:
Open the "Main Menu" -> "Settings menu" -> "Document embedded styles" -> Off

With "Default font face" being Code2000, the epub works for me. The txt doesn't but I don't know why.

The problem with the epub is that the CSS in that epub wants to use a font this way:

Code:

@font-face {
font-family:"cnepub";
src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf), url(res:///tt0011m_.ttf);
}

My guess is that because this font can't be found on the Kindle Touch, the program falls back to the default font (Caecilia IIRC) and not one the one configured in the menu.

varnie · 04-07-2012, 10:42 AM

I added an optional page refresh to the reader. It can be set in the Settings dialogue.
The one small inconvenience is that the battery status icon underwent a few changes, and now appears a little differently than it did before. This issue is detailed here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=27 (if you cares).
This feature is highly experimental, so do not expect too much from it

here is the fresh build: https://github.com/downloads/varnie/...-varnie.tar.gz

Culex · 04-07-2012, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawhill

In fact, both readers should need 0% CPU when idle and aquire up to 100% when calculating. The 22%/50% values are no valid measures - at least if you were just sitting and watching the output of "top". If you're interested in getting reliable measurements, I suggest to measure CPU time consumed. Have a look at /proc/<PID>/sched, if you want "hard numbers" :-)
(The CVM will probably have a big startup overhead, which should probably be taken into account.)

touché. Actually when comparing cpu usage I was merely looking at top while turning pages. It wasn't meant to be an all inclusive test. I've read that battery life is consumed when turning pages, not when idling.

cvm does have a large overhead and loaded automatically at startup.

amalewolf · 04-08-2012, 01:33 AM

hi,bhaak,thanks a lot!
i change the setting as you said.And not only the epub ,but also the txt are all shown correctly.I also don't know why ~

I am a literature student,I don't understand the code you'v written there,sorry~~.But I have an idea about the titles of the books only shown as"????": I find that-- in the menu, the "Default font face" only changes the content of the book.The font of the program can't be changed.So,if we change the default font of the program into Code2000,the titles can be shown correctly,I think.

04-07-2012, 07:29 AM	#115
amalewolf Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: kindle touch	hi,yiming with my poor english ,i guess your meaning is: in a whole English book,a few chinese words can be correctly show，but in my test: the Chinese Edition《Steve Jobs:A Biography》 ,when its title is Chinese, the format in txt/epub,the book is "???" ;when its title is English ,the txt/epub also "???". and for the mobi,if i change a chinese book'titel into English ,it's also only "???". i don't konw why~~ Last edited by amalewolf; 04-07-2012 at 07:36 AM.

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04-01-2012, 02:04 AM	#106
Tsukasa Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	screen refresh is useless IMHO i'm used it a few times for testing only, when reading i forget about it completely maybe we can use button for more reasonable purposes fb2.zip is cool, can you upload compiled version? PS and need numbers in search dialog

04-01-2012, 04:09 AM	#107
lukeroge Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	I agree, a compiled version would be great for us who don't have the time to set up a compilation environment.

04-01-2012, 08:52 AM	#109
varnie Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 30196 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle Touch	Hi all. I uploaded a fresh version. Tsukasa, in addition to the changes I have already mentioned, it includes the updated Search dialogue you asked for. ^_^ here it is

04-06-2012, 08:58 AM	#110
amalewolf Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: kindle touch	hello ,thanks for your work! i have a question: the chinese characters can not be displayed correctly，they just some “？”on the kindle touch screen can you help me ? thx a lot!

04-06-2012, 01:59 PM	#111
yiming Zealot Posts: 127 Karma: 6744 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle Touch, PW2, PW5	@varnie, bhaak as reported by amalewolf, Chinese characters are not shown in epub books, but txt files are ok. as for mobi books, it seems that books with Chinese titles will crash the reader, whereas those with English titles are ok. hope you can solve the problems. many thanks.

04-07-2012, 01:56 AM	#113
Culex Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	Ok, I added HackedUpReader from Varnie. Have to say it's a little different figuring things out. Would be great to sort by Series, and I really don't need to see file extensions, just Titles. Also I noticed the default ebook viewer has a process called cvm that can use up to 50% cpu usage while cr3 uses a max of about 22%. Yeah.... Longer battery life.

04-07-2012, 06:22 AM	#114
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	In fact, both readers should need 0% CPU when idle and aquire up to 100% when calculating. The 22%/50% values are no valid measures - at least if you were just sitting and watching the output of "top". If you're interested in getting reliable measurements, I suggest to measure CPU time consumed. Have a look at /proc/<PID>/sched, if you want "hard numbers" :-) (The CVM will probably have a big startup overhead, which should probably be taken into account.)

04-07-2012, 10:42 AM	#118
varnie Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 30196 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle Touch	I added an optional page refresh to the reader. It can be set in the Settings dialogue. The one small inconvenience is that the battery status icon underwent a few changes, and now appears a little differently than it did before. This issue is detailed here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=27 (if you cares). This feature is highly experimental, so do not expect too much from it here is the fresh build: https://github.com/downloads/varnie/...-varnie.tar.gz

04-08-2012, 01:33 AM	#120
amalewolf Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: kindle touch	hi,bhaak,thanks a lot! i change the setting as you said.And not only the epub ,but also the txt are all shown correctly.I also don't know why ~ I am a literature student,I don't understand the code you'v written there,sorry~~.But I have an idea about the titles of the books only shown as"????": I find that-- in the menu, the "Default font face" only changes the content of the book.The font of the program can't be changed.So,if we change the default font of the program into Code2000,the titles can be shown correctly,I think.

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