justRead.app – Native iOS EPUB Reader (Built for Power Readers)

[gustophersmob]

Is there a way to increase line spacing? If so, I can’t find it.

[JSWolf]

I just installed justRead.app and I find a number of issues. I don't think this should have been released just yet. Also, I cannot see a discount on the lifetime price. Also, if we only get a week for the special pricing, then it's not going to work because of the number of issues that need to be fixed before it can be properly tested.

• No hyphenation
• No line height adjustment so I cannot decrease the line height
• the line height is too large
• Vertical and horizontal margins are incorrectly reversed
• The top/bottom margins are wrong. The bottom margin is OK, but the top margin goes to the top of the screen and the bar on the screen obscures some text. The default T/B margins should have the text before the bar and at the bottom of the screen. So I have extra space at the bottom of the screen because I have to have a top margin to make the text below the bar. I have room for at least two lines (well it would be two lines if the line height was not so large)
• Does not respect the metadata in the font for rendering the lien height by default
• The line height is too large. It should be (by default) using the font's line height metadata
• Aa is where the font size should be found
• Alice in Wonderland is said to have an error at the beginning of the book so it's not rendering something correctly

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I believe that the one-off purchase option will appear with the next update as soon as Apple approves it.

The issues need to be fixed before any pricing is shown.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by gustophersmob

Is there a way to increase line spacing? If so, I can’t find it.

I believe you have to turn off "Publisher Style". Then options for text alignment, line height, word spacing, letter spacing, paragraph spacing and hyphens appear.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The issues need to be fixed before any pricing is shown.

I'm sure the developer is trying to do so. But as with any app on the Apple app store, any update will need to be approved by Apple, which I suspect takes time.

[Edit: I see I've probably mis-understood you. I now think you weren't complaining about the lack of a lifetime pricing option, but that the software isn't perfect.

No, it's not reasonable to expect every problem with an app to be fixed to your satisfaction before a developer puts a price on the software.]