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2005-12-03
, 20:43
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Excellent, having a huge collection of Conan Doyle, Sax Rohmer and Mark Twain on the tablet makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Tell me, am I just unfocused, or is there really no way of changing the font size in fbreader?
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2005-12-03
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Oh, sure you can change fonts.
Three points:
- You can choose any font that's installed in the system.
- When it's clear how to install fonts into the system (there's no tool at present; shouldn't be a big barrier to doing this), you can use whatever font you really, really want
- You can choose font, italic, bold (that is, either, neither or both), size and hyphenation (on for text, say, and off for headlines) by the "style" -- and style here is used as MS Word uses it, to mean functional roles in the document, including such things as text paragraph, title, section title, subtitle, epigraph, footnote, verse, hyperlink, and so on.
In other words, beyond any other e-book reader, and even beyond what browsers offer.
If you go to the FBReader for Maemo page, there's a link to a page of screenshots of the different options for the program. You can see the Style options at http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader/maemo/styles-font.png
Three points:
- You can choose any font that's installed in the system.
- When it's clear how to install fonts into the system (there's no tool at present; shouldn't be a big barrier to doing this), you can use whatever font you really, really want
- You can choose font, italic, bold (that is, either, neither or both), size and hyphenation (on for text, say, and off for headlines) by the "style" -- and style here is used as MS Word uses it, to mean functional roles in the document, including such things as text paragraph, title, section title, subtitle, epigraph, footnote, verse, hyperlink, and so on.
In other words, beyond any other e-book reader, and even beyond what browsers offer.
If you go to the FBReader for Maemo page, there's a link to a page of screenshots of the different options for the program. You can see the Style options at http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader/maemo/styles-font.png
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2005-12-04
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Oh yeah, it was just me being unfocused 
. I missed the remaining tabs, sneakily hidden away on the Settings-dialogue. Now everything is much better.
Tell me, which combination of background color and text color would prove least straining to the eye? The white/black-combination is rather natural, of course, but it is a bit too bright for my liking. I experimented with some other settings (a creamy kind of white, or alternatively a grey background) which were slightly better but I suspect there's even better combos. And I don't think I'd like the classic terminal combination of having bright green on black!
Also: I downloaded Alice in Wonderland and Dracula from http://www.chuggnutt.com/ebook_category.php. They were in pdb-format which sounded nice - no Gutenberg-conversion (though it has worked rather well). Unfortunately the fbreader wasn't able to open them, in fact, it didn't even list them when I tried to add them to the library. And the reader did find other books (converted from Gutenberg) in the same directory. Does anybody else manage to open and read these books?
Grateful for any suggestion and explanations.
Zup
. I missed the remaining tabs, sneakily hidden away on the Settings-dialogue. Now everything is much better.Tell me, which combination of background color and text color would prove least straining to the eye? The white/black-combination is rather natural, of course, but it is a bit too bright for my liking. I experimented with some other settings (a creamy kind of white, or alternatively a grey background) which were slightly better but I suspect there's even better combos. And I don't think I'd like the classic terminal combination of having bright green on black!
Also: I downloaded Alice in Wonderland and Dracula from http://www.chuggnutt.com/ebook_category.php. They were in pdb-format which sounded nice - no Gutenberg-conversion (though it has worked rather well). Unfortunately the fbreader wasn't able to open them, in fact, it didn't even list them when I tried to add them to the library. And the reader did find other books (converted from Gutenberg) in the same directory. Does anybody else manage to open and read these books?
Grateful for any suggestion and explanations.
Zup
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2005-12-04
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Originally Posted by zupidupi
Unfortunately those books are formatted for the Palm Reader from eReader and are not Plucker format.Also: I downloaded Alice in Wonderland and Dracula from http://www.chuggnutt.com/ebook_category.php. They were in pdb-format which sounded nice - no Gutenberg-conversion (though it has worked rather well). Unfortunately the fbreader wasn't able to open them, in fact, it didn't even list them when I tried to add them to the library. And the reader did find other books (converted from Gutenberg) in the same directory. Does anybody else manage to open and read these books?
It's confusing that Plucker and Palm share the same file type
Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org/) and
The Online Books Page
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Gutenberg will even output its texts in Plucker format.
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