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And here is my next idea (from practice again) When there are a lot of files, it's hard to remember, which you have already read, which not, which are in the middle. So it would be nice in the file browser to see your current position in the file. Again much like in the native bookshelf. But I'd prefer numbers instead of dots. Say, place information right-justified in the format: [current-page/total-pages]. If the current-page is 0 or not displayed, the file was not opened. Quote:
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04-16-2012, 01:18 AM | #242 |
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I had tried the first version and yesterday i tried the latest after a long time and i want to thank everybody here for what you have done. It is unbelievable.
I was using both the native kindle pdf reader and duokan, but kpdf is better than the two because, 1) Native kindle viewer doesn't let manual border manipulation, there is always the scroll bar below. 2)Duokan's rendering quality is below native viewer, takes too much time to go to duokan and return back to original framework. I think kpdf has best of the two worlds. A great zoom manipulation and the ability for custom borders with a good rendering quality and speed. I noticed in some pdfs, it renders even better than the native viewer. The only con i think of is the restarting of kindle with large .pdf files problem persists. Well i am on kindle DXG with 3.3 firmware if you want to know. |
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04-16-2012, 09:06 AM | #243 | |
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One possibility is to shutdown the kindle framework before reader starts (or when memory gets tight), but that would require framework to restart after exit, and that's one of features you like... |
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04-16-2012, 11:50 AM | #244 |
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how should i edit the launchpad file to shutdown the kindle framework before the reader starts?
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04-16-2012, 01:15 PM | #245 | |
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Shutdown Amazon framework before reader and restart it afterwards
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In launchpad/kpdf.sh add stop and start calls around ./reader.lua like: Code:
/etc/init.d/framework stop ./reader.lua "$1" # ... more test here /etc/init.d/framework start Alternative would be to copy exists kpdf.sh to kpdf-no-framework.sh and then add new keyboard shortcut to launchpad/kpdf.ini Last edited by dpavlin; 04-16-2012 at 01:17 PM. Reason: Suggested additional keyboard shortcut |
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04-16-2012, 03:36 PM | #246 |
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We could potentially add alternative shortcuts and a second script in next release?
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As far as I'm concerned, as soon as the kpdfviewer has a somewhat advanced text highlight and text annotations support, I would be more than willing to ditch the native framework. |
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04-16-2012, 04:35 PM | #248 | |
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Shortcut is P K... K as in kill framework ! |
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Um.. You still need to read Mobi in Native system I guess ;P |
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Can someone please explain to me, in plain English, how I
a) Jailbreak a Kindle DXG b) Install muPDF c) Install Duokan? Everything on this subject that I can find is either written (a) for hackers or (b) for people who are Chinese, or (c) both! |
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well i increased the cache to 15 MB from 5 MB and i've encountered some interesting behaviour. Again after a few page turns, the kindle frame was restarting but i could turn pages and continue reading on kpdf. Of course there was a visible scroll bar (the loading screen of amazon kindle frame) on the page, but after a full page refresh on kpdf (menu button two times), it disappeared. And after the end of restart of frame work, i could go on reading.
So kpdf doesn't crash, it is only the amazon framework, so this new script should help. I will post the results here after trying the new script, as i forgot my USB cable at home. EDIT: Well i now know there are two kinds of restarts. In the first kind, i described above, only the amazon framework restarts and you can continue to read. Editing the script to kill the framework should solve this problem. But in the second kind of restart which i now encountered you see the "Wait a moment while your kindle starts up." screen, all background processes are killed including the kpdf. I think this one will be hard to solve but fortunately it is a rare case. Last edited by reprep; 04-17-2012 at 04:16 AM. |
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But I think it would make sense to have it e.g. in a "sort by reading" mode or something. As otherwise the display may become quite cluttered. |
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Especially, if you take some really bad made image based pdf files and/or pressing forward and menu buttons wildly (which does not correspond to the reading behavior). So, I was going to see if changing memory settings would be a panacea but for the lack of time before my vocation I did not manage. |
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