Open source LRF viewer - Page 2

kovidgoyal · 09-23-2007, 01:03 AM

Hmm well lets see, I may add an option to turn it on/off.

JSWolf · 09-23-2007, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Hmm well lets see, I may add an option to turn it on/off.

That would be great! Thanks!

Mitchll · 09-23-2007, 02:26 PM

Can this be accessed through the GUI or is it just through command line?

Thanks for all the great work!

Mitchll

kovidgoyal · 09-23-2007, 02:33 PM

At the moment only through the commandline, once it stabilizes more I'll integrate it into the GUI.

whiteinge · 09-23-2007, 08:30 PM

Wow, that's really great. Thanks a lot for putting that together!

kovidgoyal · 09-24-2007, 12:30 AM

version 0.4.3 with full justification, search and a faster layout engine. Will hit the servers in an hour.

JSWolf · 09-24-2007, 10:50 AM

Very nice!

kovidgoyal · 09-26-2007, 07:05 PM

Integrated with the main libprs500 GUI in 0.4.4

andym · 09-27-2007, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Hmm well lets see, I may add an option to turn it on/off.

Kovid. I've looked at a couple of examples of books produced by BookDesigner and the full justification is hardcoded into the text. Being able to turn it on and off is got to be a better option - personally I'd rather have the ragged margin than ridiculous amounts of space between words.

JSWolf · 09-27-2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by andym

Kovid. I've looked at a couple of examples of books produced by BookDesigner and the full justification is hardcoded into the text. Being able to turn it on and off is got to be a better option - personally I'd rather have the ragged margin than ridiculous amounts of space between words.

The open source LRF viewer supports hyphenation, so you won't get the huge spaces in lines.

andym · 09-27-2007, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

The open source LRF viewer supports hyphenation, so you won't get the huge spaces in lines.

Lots of spaces versus lots of hyphens versus justification versus smaller font size: there's always a trade-off to be made somewhere, and as as with all things the choice should be with the reader wherever possible.

tsgreer · 09-27-2007, 12:44 PM

Kovid, you are like a machine over there man!! You are doing everything that Sony should be doing. You rock. So will this view show us exactly what the file will look like on the Reader? Or is it just a viewer for .lrf files.

The reason I ask is that it is time consuming to make a book then load it onto the Reader, only to find out the spacing is wrong or something. It would be cool if I could just check it in the viewer first...

tsgreer · 09-27-2007, 01:10 PM

Wow, I just started using this. I like the interface and you even included a text search function. Very cool. I have actually been using color graphics in my lrf files (hey someday Readers are gonna be color right?!), and your viewer does a great job of rendering those perfect too.

So when Sony dives in and tries to hire you away from us, you won't forget us little people right?!?!

kovidgoyal · 09-27-2007, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andym

Lots of spaces versus lots of hyphens versus justification versus smaller font size: there's always a trade-off to be made somewhere, and as as with all things the choice should be with the reader wherever possible.

I can add an option to turn off full justification. If you open a ticket for it, I'll make sure it gets into the next version.

kovidgoyal · 09-27-2007, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by tsgreer

Kovid, you are like a machine over there man!! You are doing everything that Sony should be doing. You rock. So will this view show us exactly what the file will look like on the Reader? Or is it just a viewer for .lrf files.

The reason I ask is that it is time consuming to make a book then load it onto the Reader, only to find out the spacing is wrong or something. It would be cool if I could just check it in the viewer first...

That was one of the primary reasons I made the viewer. As I hated having to load books on the reader or boot windows to see the end result of a conversion. However, the rendering is not going to be exactly the same as SONY's reader, primarily because my reader supports hyphenation. You can turn it off with the --disable-hyphenation command-line option.

Another point off difference is that my reader uses different default fonts (the liberation family) as these have real italic and bold typefaces and support a far larger range of unicode characters. But their size characteristics are very similar to the Reader's default fonts, so it should not make much difference.

09-27-2007, 01:10 PM	#28
tsgreer Lovin' the e-book life... Posts: 633 Karma: 2509 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Colorado Device: Ebookwise 1150, Sony PRS-505, Amazon Kindle, BeBook (with OpenInkpot)	Wow, I just started using this. I like the interface and you even included a text search function. Very cool. I have actually been using color graphics in my lrf files (hey someday Readers are gonna be color right?!), and your viewer does a great job of rendering those perfect too. So when Sony dives in and tries to hire you away from us, you won't forget us little people right?!?! Last edited by tsgreer; 09-27-2007 at 01:16 PM.

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09-23-2007, 01:03 AM	#16
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,565 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Hmm well lets see, I may add an option to turn it on/off.

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Mitchll Cave Dweller Posts: 220 Karma: 1986 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Ipad Sony reader prs-505 prs-900	Can this be accessed through the GUI or is it just through command line? Thanks for all the great work! Mitchll

09-23-2007, 02:33 PM	#19
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,565 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	At the moment only through the commandline, once it stabilizes more I'll integrate it into the GUI.

09-23-2007, 08:30 PM	#20
whiteinge Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Sony Reader	Wow, that's really great. Thanks a lot for putting that together!

09-24-2007, 12:30 AM	#21
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,565 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	version 0.4.3 with full justification, search and a faster layout engine. Will hit the servers in an hour.

09-24-2007, 10:50 AM	#22
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 76,491 Karma: 136564766 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Very nice!

09-26-2007, 07:05 PM	#23
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,565 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Integrated with the main libprs500 GUI in 0.4.4

09-27-2007, 12:44 PM	#27
tsgreer Lovin' the e-book life... Posts: 633 Karma: 2509 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Colorado Device: Ebookwise 1150, Sony PRS-505, Amazon Kindle, BeBook (with OpenInkpot)	Kovid, you are like a machine over there man!! You are doing everything that Sony should be doing. You rock. So will this view show us exactly what the file will look like on the Reader? Or is it just a viewer for .lrf files. The reason I ask is that it is time consuming to make a book then load it onto the Reader, only to find out the spacing is wrong or something. It would be cool if I could just check it in the viewer first...

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