Marvin 2.1 is available now with important fixes and new features

[Faterson]

That only happens when moving between sections/chapters, not when flipping regular pages.

For more discussion on this, see:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/177

[andy88]

Originally Posted by Faterson

That only happens when moving between sections/chapters, not when flipping regular pages.

For more discussion on this, see:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/177

Exactly. Could this delay be improved ?

[At_Libitum]

I have noticed a few odd things.

When I have the toolbars hidden, and tap in center to bring up the bars, then visit the Formatting menu. When I then tap outside the menu, the top bar has moved down and the bottom bar has moved up. Both over a distance equal to their hight.

This does not reset and is cumulative on repeat. You can keep doing this until the bottom bar covers the top bar just about halfway down the page.

see image

[At_Libitum]

Here's another thing that isn't supposed to happen

It seems you've looked too closely at Stanza and inadvertently inherited an issue it has with images in div's

I was over in the ePub forum and stumbled on to a topic about CSS Tips and tricks (it's pinned)

There was a tip about flowing text around an irregular image and as it so happened I have a candidate for that.

So I took the example and tried it out on the copy I had myself where the text was still flowing around the image rectangular.

In the browsers I could try (Firefox, Safari, IE) this worked as advertised in FF and S, except of course in IE.
So with that success and knowing most e-Readers using webkit for epubs, I modified the book and tried it out.
I'm not going to let you hunt through the book but will include needed css and html

Consider the following HTML

<p>
<div class="left1">
<img class="img1" src="images/alice23a.gif" alt="Alice talks to Cheshire Cat" />
</div>
<div class="left2" style="">
<img class="img2" src="images/alice23a_mask.gif" alt="Alice talks to Cheshire Cat" />
</div>
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to
see it trot away quietly into the wood.  “If it had grown up,”
she said to herself, “it would have made a dreadfully ugly child:
but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”  And she began
thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as
pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if one only knew the right
way to change them—” when she was a little startled by seeing
the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
</p>
<p>
  The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.  It looked good-
natured, she thought:  still it had Very long claws and a great
many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
</p>

and the following CSS

.left1 {
	float:left;
	max-width:160px;
	width:23.35% !important;
	text-align:left;
	margin-bottom:-12px;
	border:1px solid red;
}
.left2 {
	float:left;
	max-width:175px;
	width:26.65% !important;
	max-height:210px;
}
.img1 {
	display:block;
	max-width:342px;
	width:210% !important;
}
.img2 {
	display:block;
	max-width:182px;
	width:100%  !important;
	margin-bottom:-5px;
	border:1px solid red;
}

This is how it looks in Safari, the red border is so you can see the divs.


And this is what Marvin makes of it.


As you can see it ignores the specified width for the image and forces it to fit inside div.left1 instead of letting it overflow outside of the box into div.left2.

And if you wonder why I changed the example from that topic by using percentages and adding a transparant mask image, that is because I feel images should scale with page size, not with text size.

Attached also the images used in the example

[Faterson]

Originally Posted by At_Libitum

When I have the toolbars hidden, and tap in center to bring up the bars, then visit the Formatting menu. When I then tap outside the menu, the top bar has moved down and the bottom bar has moved up. Both over a distance equal to their hight.

This one is a known issue that Kris has already fixed for the upcoming Marvin release. See here:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/170

[kguil]

@At_Libitum I'm releasing the fix for that (toolbar) bug today.

[kguil]

@At_Libitum - Could you email me a copy of that book?

[At_Libitum]

Originally Posted by kguil

@At_Libitum - Could you email me a copy of that book?

PM with link to dropbox copy sent.

The image in question is in the 6th chapter Pig and Pepper and on my iPhone it's on the 9th page of the chapter.

Red borders are also still present .

[kguil]

@At_Libitum Thanks.

[At_Libitum]

Apologies to bring this one back to live.

Any news if or when this 'problem' in post#19 will be solved?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=19

[kguil]

I don't have a timeline for it yet but it's certainly on my to-do list.

[andy88]

Hi,

I have a question. I have been using Marvin(iPad only Edition) for sometime now.
I noticed there's another version on the App Store priced at 2.99. What's the difference between the two ?

(Is it that the latter supports iPhone version) ?

I was expecting that the older version will be unified to support iPad and iPhone together.

[kguil]

The iPad-only version is discontinued and won't get any more updates.

The previous iPhone-only version is now a Universal app and supports all iDevices, and got cheaper.

I had announced details of the switch here.

[andy88]

@Kguil
Would there be any promo codes being released anytime soon for Marvin ?
I had missed on the promo codes' released during new year. It would be nice to know if you have any plans of releasing a few more soon.

I need only one promo code.

Thanks!

[kguil]

@andy88 - I don't have any promo code campaigns planned.