>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Flynn <[email protected]> writes:
Peter> 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.
Peter> Do these exist in the PDF Reader on the N800? I opened a
Peter> document the other day and zoomed in a bit (eyesight isn't
Peter> what it used to be :-) and two left and right triangles
Peter> appeared, but when I dragged the page around the screen, they
Peter> vanished.
On the 810 they vanish but are still there if you can remember where.
After 10 minutes, I'm getting much better at it.
Peter> This seems to be a design misperception: it also existed for
Peter> many years on a number of PostScript and DVI and (desktop)
Peter> PDF readers, but was eventually tracked down and removed
Peter> because of user complaints.
Actually, I think they put it back in XPDF. I'm sure it wasn't there a
year ago, but is now on Ubuntu 9.04. But I may not have found the right
setting.
>> 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.
Peter> What missing on mine is being able to rotate the display 90
Peter> degrees so that you can read a page in portrait
Peter> orientation. I *hate* having to flip up and down to see the
Peter> missing half of a page.
Can't you do that at the OS level?
I can't imagine being able to read a normal page of text on a screen the
size of the 8x0, so I haven't even tried, although I do this when I'm
reading PDF's on the laptop.
Peter> But this will only work "right" when we start to use
Peter> reflowable PDFs, where the text within paragraph-level
Peter> objects re-linebreaks itself according to the width of the
Peter> window, like a HTML browser does. That brings its own set of
Peter> problems (math, multiple columns) but at least for normal
Peter> continuous text it would solve a lot of the current
Peter> difficulties.
Or convincing the people who send you ebooks to send html or equivalent
instead of PDF. I have the packet for Hugo award voters, which I was
really looking forward to, but most of the ones I didn't already have
are PDF's. Hence my desire to get the 810 reader working. I'm doing
better than I would have expected.
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Laura (mailto:[email protected] http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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long. Conrad Translation.
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