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06-29-2009, 01:00 AM | #46 | |
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Once you have a lrf opened in the Sony viewer just hit F11. This uses the full screen and displays 2 pages. Move the mouse and a control bar and access to the TOC will pop up. From here you can adjust the font size and the text reflows perfectly across the 2 pages provided. I thought my daughter was going to be SOL and unable to easily use the great books that have been provided here. Thankfully this is one area that the Sony software excels. Having this great option available for netbooks saves having to convert over books you already have formatted. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 06-29-2009 at 01:45 AM. |
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07-09-2009, 11:05 PM | #47 |
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eReader Format?
Hello! I just downloaded calibre and so far, so good, except for one thing. I have an eBook that is in eReader format (.pdb) and apparently it is not supported. Is it this an error/glitch or does the viewer not support this type of file? And if not, will it in the future?
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07-10-2009, 12:03 AM | #48 |
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pdb will be suported in the 0.6 release of calibre
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07-10-2009, 12:44 AM | #49 |
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Thank you! Can't wait.
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07-19-2009, 12:13 PM | #52 |
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This should be fixed in 0.6
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07-22-2009, 04:42 AM | #53 |
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08-14-2009, 01:39 PM | #54 |
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Two oddities about the viewer
I've been experiencing many small problems with the viewer for awhile now, and I've been trying to distill their causes. I've indentified two regular sources of screwiness.
I'm using the Linux version 0.6.5, but I've experienced the same problem with older versions, and, if I recall correctly, the Windows version. Both are exemplified in the following attempt at a minimal (un)working example. Take the following and save it as an HTML file: Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>Calibre Ebook Viewer Tester</title> </head> <body> <p>α Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. β Quisque gravida volutpat neque, sit amet ullamcorper sem pharetra ultrices. γ Vivamus vel consectetur est. δ Aliquam erat volutpat.</p> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque non arcu odio, in pulvinar ante. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>(η) Aenean elementum tincidunt est id imperdiet. Ut mi justo, vestibulum sed iaculis ut, fermentum pharetra diam. (ζ) Nam dapibus dolor—θ—sed libero aliquet consectetur ac vitae ipsum. Integer fringilla aliquam vulputate. [ι]<sup>κ</sup> Ut mollis, diam eget feugiat tincidunt, nisi libero dapibus ante, vitae commodo turpis diam luctus dolor.</p> </body> </html> Anyway, these two things seem to regularly result in problems for calibre's ebook viewer. Anyway, here's what the HTML file looks like in Firefox (as it should): However, take the same file, put into calibre, and convert it to an ePub. (I'm using whatever the default settings are.) Then View Specific Format > ePub. I usually get something like this:
I'm almost positive the problems are with the viewer, not the conversion, since the resulting epub works fine with other software or on my reader. However, it could be some interplay between them. I guess this could be an issue with my video setup somehow--it has some issues with KDE/Qt-apps running under GNOME, calibre included--but I don't think so. Update: I opened up the resulting ePub to see if the problem lies there. In the converted html, the <span style="font-style: italic;"></span> has been changed to <span class="calibre2"/>; I guess having "/>" at the end without a separate </span> isn't enough to close it. so I guess that problem actually is with the conversion, not the viewing of it. The Greek letters are replaced by their UTF-8 equivalents, but I don't see why that should be a problem. Last edited by frabjous; 08-14-2009 at 02:01 PM. |
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Actually both those problems are with the library calibre uses to render HTML. I'll code a workaround for the spn issue into the converter, but I'm not sure what I can do about the greek symbols being messed up. All I can suggecst is that in the viewer preference try a different font.
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08-14-2009, 03:32 PM | #56 |
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Here's what viwewing that html snippet in calibre's viewer now looks like (on my system)
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Many thanks, Kovid. Mind if I ask what font you're using there? I tried almost all the normal fonts on my system, and there wasn't much difference between them.
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08-14-2009, 05:33 PM | #58 |
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It's the standard fonts that come with calibre Liberation Serif in this case
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08-14-2009, 05:44 PM | #59 |
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Oh, that's what i was using originally. I wonder why it behaves differently for us.
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08-14-2009, 05:48 PM | #60 |
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Likely something in your environment that's messing up rendering. Unfortunately, I have no idea what. calibre uses Qt WebKit to do the HTML rendering.
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