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Old 12-02-2009, 08:30 AM   #16
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Thanks for the heads up, Robert! Is there any chance at some point of improving the ability to read .lit files? I tried to read a few on my PP and the device just freezes up and I have to reset it. So to me it can't read .lit files if it's going to do that when I try.
I have the exact same issue with .lit files on my PocketPRO - every one of them locks up the unit, requiring a reset to unfreeze it.
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Old 12-02-2009, 08:34 AM   #17
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Do you feel it might be possible to have the firmware implement the use of a logfile at all? I'm asking as I have some fb2 files that start to load, then just drops me back to the main menu and I have nothing to work off to diagnose the problem (either the device or the fb2 file). This might also be of use with other file formats such as the common complaint of .lit, and even mobi files. The issues people are having might not be so much with the reader but more the file itself.

Just a question, doesn't hurt to ask.
I actually just had this happen to me with an ePub file. The only fix I was able to find was to reconvert the original file format (I think it was either .txt or html) to ePub, wihich worked fine the second time, IIRC.
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Old 12-02-2009, 10:19 AM   #18
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Does the PP anti-alias the fonts in PDFs like Acrobat allows you to?
Could there be an option to turn the anti-alias off on the PP, which Acrobat also allows you to do?

I turn off the anti-aliasing on PDFs that I have trouble reading on screen and that helps. If the PP doesn't support this, maybe it could be a feature request?
Honestly I don't even know what anti-aliasing is.
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Honestly I don't even know what anti-aliasing is.
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Old 12-02-2009, 10:50 AM   #20
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Ah, bitmapped looks much better!
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Ah, bitmapped looks much better!
It's a matter of taste, and is better illustrated with two examples, the one above, that easily shows what's being done, and the one below that shows the actual results. The "anti-aliasing" is done to 'smooth' the edges of the characters, to get rid of the 'jaggedness' caused by discrete, individual stepping of "all on" or "all off" pixels. At REALLY small font sizes, the non-anti-aliased will actually be more readable, but at any half-way decent resolution (giving enough pixels to work with), the anti-aliased will look much better.

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Old 12-02-2009, 01:18 PM   #22
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Dear All:

I did hear back from China and the firmware upgrade will include:

1. Swedish, Danish, and Thai language support (many people are asking for this and waiting patiently, particularly in Europe).

2. Change to scroll wheel where when you push "in" on the nib it will change the mode from page up and page down to adjusting the music volume. (many people want to be able to adjust the volume of the music while they continue reading).

3.The Visable Clock will be placed in the status bar down near where the Battery Charge icon is now.

These changes will apply to both the 6 inch and the 5 inch!

We hope it will be up on our website no later than next Monday.

Yes, I have heard all the comments about the need to read LIT better. The factory believes the problem is only with "large" LIT files. I will have the engineers go to work on trying to improve the LIT function so it works better and faster and will do larger files.
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:44 PM   #23
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That's very interesting! Yew are putting forth that the problem is not with the reader or the device, but rather with the files?

I suppose I could see that ... MAYBE ... with some .mobi files, but my understanding is no one has gotten the .lit files to work properly.

In the case of .mobi, the errors do seem to be random. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, sometimes they freeze half way through and sometimes it is never a problem. Under these circumstances, being as the problem is very intermittent, it will be quite difficult to track down.

In the case of .lit, I would say it is much more likely the reader than the files...
Why does this surprise you. I couldn't make Astak or BeBooks firmware do anything with some Calibre created FB2 files. They simply wouldn't open. I installed the LBook firmware and those books open without any problem and look really nice. Now, if the menus were just in English instead of Ukrainian...

My LIT files convert very well into ePubs, so I don't worry about trying to read them.
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Old 12-02-2009, 02:57 PM   #24
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Yes, I have heard all the comments about the need to read LIT better. The factory believes the problem is only with "large" LIT files. I will have the engineers go to work on trying to improve the LIT function so it works better and faster and will do larger files.
YAY!!!!!!
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:29 PM   #25
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Yes, I have heard all the comments about the need to read LIT better. The factory believes the problem is only with "large" LIT files. I will have the engineers go to work on trying to improve the LIT function so it works better and faster and will do larger files.
What is the definition of a "large" .lit file? The ones I was trying to open were maybe 500kb at the largest...
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Yes, I have heard all the comments about the need to read LIT better. The factory believes the problem is only with "large" LIT files. I will have the engineers go to work on trying to improve the LIT function so it works better and faster and will do larger files.
Great!
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3.The Visable Clock will be placed in the status bar down near where the Battery Charge icon is now.
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In all formats? ...and will the status bar be permanently visible when reading ePubs?
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In all formats? ...and will the status bar be permanently visible when reading ePubs?

I would be willing to bet that since the Hanlin rendition of ADE does not even have a status bar that there will be no clock display for EPUB or PDF.

The Lbook firmware already has the clock display in CoolReader's status bar and the factory implementation is much more likely to be a clone of what Lbook has already done, which means a status bar ( now with clock) for all book formats except EPUB and PDF.
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3.The Visable Clock will be placed in the status bar down near where the Battery Charge icon is now.
Am I to read this correctly you're replacing the battery charge indicator?
I'd really like to have both
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Don't think so based on what was said in the post.
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