Laura Conrad wrote: > Marius> If you're reading in full-screen mode, you can also press > Marius> the area on the middle of the right side of the screen. > Marius> There are translucent buttons that show up when you display > Marius> a new page and then fade out, to give you a hint of where to > Marius> press. They work even when invisible.
Do these exist in the PDF Reader on the N800? I opened a document the other day and zoomed in a bit (eyesight isn't what it used to be :-) and two left and right triangles appeared, but when I dragged the page around the screen, they vanished. Nevertheless, the << and >> buttons on the top of the device scroll sideways to the edge of the page, and then one more press goes to the next page. But as with yours, the geometry repositions the page in the window instead of honouring the offset that you established on the previous page. This seems to be a design misperception: it also existed for many years on a number of PostScript and DVI and (desktop) PDF readers, but was eventually tracked down and removed because of user complaints. > I fiddled with this. When they're visible, they do the "wrong thing". Usability is about doing the "right thing", and it's really hard to guess. > Still not as good for reading in bed as what FBReader > does with the +/- rocker switch on top, but at least you can imagine > reading a (short) book that way. What missing on mine is being able to rotate the display 90 degrees so that you can read a page in portrait orientation. I *hate* having to flip up and down to see the missing half of a page. But this will only work "right" when we start to use reflowable PDFs, where the text within paragraph-level objects re-linebreaks itself according to the width of the window, like a HTML browser does. That brings its own set of problems (math, multiple columns) but at least for normal continuous text it would solve a lot of the current difficulties. ///Peter _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
