04-08-2012, 08:17 AM | #121 |
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Culex: Yep, the energy consumption will peak on page shifts. However, it should be roughly equal in this case. The eink consumption is probably the biggest part, so switching a full screen is probably the expensive thing here. "top" is somewhat notorious for leading to wrong conclusions (though in most cases regarding memory consumption), that's why I intervened :-) It's a time sample what top is doing and the CPU utilization is a mere estimate. A lot of the values that top shows are actually a bit voodoo :-)
amalewolf: There are two things involved: On the one hand, the bytes in a file map to (abstract) chars, which is commonly called the "charset" or "encoding" of the text. Nowadays, "UTF-8" is kind of a standard here. However, older TXT files might well be encoded differently. The culprit is that TXT files to not carry hints (in most cases) about which encoding they carry. HTML, EPUB, MOBI, PDF etc. are better in that regard. Some programs overcome this by doing guesses. Some encodings know "invalid sequences" (UTF-8 does). A typical convention is to present bytes that do not map to characters with a question mark ("?"). The other thing involved is the font you are using to display characters. Characters or character sequences map to "glyphs" in fonts. Or they might not, because the font does not really carry glyphs for the character in question. A convention for missing glyphs is to present them with an empty centered box. You might have seen those boxes when visiting foreign websites using exotic (for your environment, that is) scripts. Sooooo... it's a bit difficult. It's not always the encoding which is the culprit, it might also be the font. And vice-versa. Or even both. Then there are documents which specify a wrong encoding and present a lot of invalid characters that way. Some programs ignore encoding information and "magically work" under some circumstances (files matching the fixed built-in encoding). Other programs ignore encoding information and derive it from the byte sequences in the document - and might as well get it wrong. |
04-08-2012, 11:28 AM | #122 |
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hawhill,many thanks!!
With the google translation I can understand the principle.But for me,maybe the only thing I can do is suport the developers "in spirit"~haha,is that a globe joking? Maybe I also can test the program to find how to crash it down once more...... thanks again for your patiently interpretation to a layman ^_^ Last edited by amalewolf; 04-08-2012 at 11:30 AM. |
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04-09-2012, 12:06 PM | #123 | |
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i've done more tests and i think i've figured out how to read Chinese text in the Reader. txt - the text has to be encoded in UTF8 and "Preformatted text" has to be set to Off. epub - thanks for your hint, Chinese text will display without problems when "Document embedded styles" is set to off. Unfortunately, the formatting of the page is not perfect - punctuation marks which shouldn't appear in the 1st column such as , . ? ) etc will appear there. but i suppose nothing can be done to fix this problem. mobi - no problem except the punctuation marks issue mentioned above. but i've problem reading a particular mobi book, the error message is "Error reading PDB format, can't open document". i've enclosed the book here, could you please see if you know what's wrong with the book. i can read the book in Kindle. thanks for your great help. |
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04-14-2012, 04:04 AM | #124 | |
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Calibre can read it without any problem so this is a deficiency in the CoolReader engine that it doesn't support that kind of mobi. |
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05-14-2012, 04:20 PM | #127 |
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Love the work done by varnie and bhaak. The only thing I need at this point is to be able to follow links to footnotes and it will be perfect
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05-15-2012, 01:41 PM | #128 |
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How does it work with firmware 5.1.0? Is the freetype library still recommended?
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05-16-2012, 09:35 AM | #129 |
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it works smoothly.
yes, freetype library update is requred. (at least I guess so). |
05-21-2012, 12:05 PM | #130 |
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I jailbroked my kindle 5.1.0 and installed hackedUp reader. It is amazing apps so far, as I can read more book on different formats, especially chms and epubs. I know the app is in development, but I only curious about a few things.
1. On the "go to page dialog" menu. For some books it display index-like list, but I cant tap it to jump to that page. For the others with no index-like list there is only a blank area in the center. Both the afore mentioned and the later apparently look like a number typing area (because everytime I tap, the 'enter page number' display numbers--it turned out to be page number). Is it only on my kindle? 2. Can you give clues for navigations etc. I dont know where to look for the documentation, I just tried several area on the screen which turn out to switch between pages of menu, go back/forward for books but there is no icons and so on. Thanks |
05-21-2012, 12:33 PM | #131 | |
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Hi there.
1) what package version are you using? Looks like you use old package by bhaak. I am asking that because in my latest builds I have tweaked the "Go to page" dialog and now it acts as follows: if the book has a table of contents it displays it there and you can go to a chapter by clicking on it, otherwise there should be a stylish "Go to page" dialog (similar to the "Search" dialog) with the page number input. 2) let me quote from the docs of bhaak's repo: Quote:
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05-25-2012, 11:41 AM | #132 | |
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Should I try this one?
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05-25-2012, 02:56 PM | #133 |
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sure, you should
and, regarding your 2nd question - yes. |
05-31-2012, 06:57 AM | #134 |
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are there any updates in the development of the hackedupreader?
The only thing that keeps me away from using this reader permanently is the refresh algorithm.. it makes only partly updates and after a few pages the screen looks 'dirty' and is not good... |
05-31-2012, 09:43 AM | #135 | |
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My version has a bit fallen behind and doesn't have all the features varnie has added. I add a link to varnie's repository on the thread opener as I can't say when exactly I'll have time again to work on it. I've been away more or less constantly for the last 3 weeks and again this week-end.
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But there is an easy workaround for you. Just press the home button and then it will do a page refresh. I actually don't like the page refresh for every page that older kindles and most e-ink reader have. It's quite annoying and distracting to me. I can go for quite a long time without a page refresh if the lines are vertically aligned and you don't get any dirt between the lines. As long as there are no images or sub chapters that change the vertical alignment this works quite well for me. |
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