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Old 03-03-2012, 04:23 AM   #106
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This is great, and with djvu support it will be _perfect_.

Keep up the good work, if the speed issue is solved I promise to hang up a poster with the developers names on it :P
LOLed.

DJVU support is on its way. I have just coded a demo that works in emulator mode. Hope I can get it done in the next two weeks
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Old 03-03-2012, 11:04 PM   #107
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Just added a new version. No new features this time, mainly bug fixes:
https://github.com/hwhw/kindlepdfviewer/wiki/Download
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Old 03-03-2012, 11:15 PM   #108
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I have finished a POC djvu support yesterday. It has all the features that pdfreader has, except for TOC, zoom fit to content and rotation.

I might be quite busy in the following weeks so I cannot spend too much time on code clean ups. Therefore I post my branch here, hoping that some body can keep working on this feature:
https://github.com/hwhw/kindlepdfviewer/tree/djvu

TOC and rotation are supported by djvulibre library, so can be added with little effort.

EDIT:
the branch has been merged into master :-)

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Old 03-04-2012, 05:34 AM   #109
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hi many thanks for this it rocks, looking forward to future versions.

wondering everytime i switch back to normal kindle os i get a voice message saying shop in kindel store?

thx

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doh had voice guide switched on!
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Old 03-04-2012, 06:08 AM   #110
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hi many thanks for this it rocks, looking forward to future versions.

wondering everytime i switch back to normal kindle os i get a voice message saying shop in kindel store?

thx

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doh had voice guide switched on!
glad that you like it :-)

We have to refresh screen after back to native OS. Currently, we use the method provided by eINiK in previous post, which manually trigger the menu key twice to force a refresh. That's why you hear the guiding voice.
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Old 03-05-2012, 12:34 AM   #111
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OMG, when I woke up this morning, hawhill and dpavlin have already merged the djvu support into the main repo! That means djvu support will be added to next release. And we have added many new features and fixes too.

I also saw traycold hacking on the djvu branch. We got four active developers now :-)
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Old 03-05-2012, 01:04 AM   #112
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But I'm having a problem. Big pdfs (mostly scanned books) are really slow to open and to turn pages, up to 20 seconds.
Hawhill added optimization options for compiling in new version. So it is now much faster (about 10 times faster for one of my test file, 20s to 3s).

Hope the new version can solve your problem. :-)

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Old 03-05-2012, 12:07 PM   #113
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I just finished implementation of two-column zoom mode which is very useful when reading articles on kindle (and frequently requested in this thread) ...
not bad at all
But I think I have a couple of pages for you (s. PM) on which it does not work.
There seems to be no way to go the the second column.

I wonder if it is somehow possible to provide for visualization of where
I stopped reading the upper-part column (some kind of a dashed line below the last line read)?

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Old 03-05-2012, 12:08 PM   #114
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...Currently, we use the method provided by eINiK in previous post, which manually trigger the menu key twice to force a refresh...
To be fair, I just provided the reference to the workaround
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Hi eLiNK, I just checked the special symbols in one of my pdf book. It turns out that these symbols are caused by wrong formated title enties in the pdf. So, for my case, it is not a bug in kindlepdfviewer nor muPDF. I add a workaround to fix these boxes for my book, not sure it will work for you though. Your boxes mighty be caused by other reasons.

The fixes will be included in next new version after hw merged pull requests I guess.
Works great on all of my files tested

Thanks

a couple of other observations:
1) the "HOME" button does not work, if currently in the TOC mode
2) if I'm in the "Search Results" window, pressing "S" calls up the input box with the previous search word entered but I need to delete it letter by letter before I can enter another search word. I would be more convenient if the search word would have been already marked.
3) Would be sweet if it would be possible to delete the jump history (without plugging the kindle to the PC, that is)

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Old 03-05-2012, 12:30 PM   #116
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Hawhill added optimization options for compiling in new version. So it is now much faster (about 10 times faster for one of my test file, 20s to 3s).

Hope the new version can solve your problem. :-)
Became better but the kindlepdfviewer seems to still have problems with pages containing "heavy" images.
At least on my KDXG.
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I have finished a POC djvu support yesterday ...
That's fantastic.
Looking forward to testing it.
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Old 03-05-2012, 02:21 PM   #118
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not bad at all
But I think I have a couple of pages for you (s. PM) on which it does not work.
There seems to be no way to go the the second column.
I wonder if it is somehow possible to provide for visualization of where
I stopped reading the upper-part column (some kind of a dashed line below the last line read)?
I also find two-column mode very, very useful. But also have some feedback:
1) When entered two-column mode, is there any way to quit it directly? What I mean it would be great to quit it by pressing f again.
2) Second thing - when navigating in two-column mode and going to next physical page (like shown in the above mentioned video) it is sometimes needed to press f again to fit page to the screen. Could this be done automatically? -> and therefore f could be used to quit two column mode.

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Old 03-05-2012, 04:56 PM   #119
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I also find two-column mode very, very useful. But also have some feedback:
1) When entered two-column mode, is there any way to quit it directly? What I mean it would be great to quit it by pressing f again.
You can just press a,s or d (with or without shift) to go into any other zoom mode. Is that good enough?

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2) Second thing - when navigating in two-column mode and going to next physical page (like shown in the above mentioned video) it is sometimes needed to press f again to fit page to the screen. Could this be done automatically? -> and therefore f could be used to quit two column mode.
This is needed only if first page on which you pressed f has vastly different layout than next one(s). In example video, it's 2nd page, but it might be some other (try to read FreeBSD mag for example ;-)

I have also noticed that bounding boxes on which this feature is based are often wrong if page includes bitmap graphics, so it makes sense not to re-zoom page on every page change because that really kills flow of reading when you stumble upon page which zooms differently. So, I prefer manual interaction as it is now.

You can, however, change your local copy by inserting following line:

Code:
self:setglobalzoommode(self.ZOOM_FIT_TO_CONTENT_HALF_WIDTH)
in unireader.lua (or pdfreader.lua, depending on which version are you using) after

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self:goto(self.pageno + 1)
below KEY_FW_RIGHT. Below is diff against current master:

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diff --git a/unireader.lua b/unireader.lua
index bda0a93..fe4915a 100644
--- a/unireader.lua
+++ b/unireader.lua
@@ -613,6 +613,7 @@ function UniReader:inputloop()
                                                        self.offset_x = self.pan_x
                                                        self.offset_y = self.pan_y
                                                        self:goto(self.pageno + 1)
+                                                       self:setglobalzoommode(self.ZOOM_FIT_TO_CONTENT_HALF_WIDTH)
                                                else
                                                        self.offset_y = self.pan_y
                                                end
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