Hi Ricardo, Are you sure that you're using the correct download link on the CNet download page? Try going to: http://download.cnet.com/Stanza/3000-2056_4-198177.html Then make sure you use the link that VoiceOver identifies as "Download Now CNET Secure Download" to start your download. One of the nuisances about the download.com pages is that there are multiple items labeled as "download" links on each page, and they point to downloads for other items.
I just checked that this works, and that the resulting download does open up correctly. Lexcycle's home pages have been off line since November 2011, slightly after their final update release of Stanza for iOS 5, so you can't go there for the downloads of Stanza Desktop for either the Mac or Windows any more. Sites that point to the source link, such as MacUpdate, won't work. On the Windows side there are more alternate sources, but the softonic pages seem to be a reasonable choice for Stanza desktop: http://stanza-desktop.en.softonic.com/download I was going to put this information into a comment on the AppleVis site, along with some information on how to navigate, but just never had the time to complete my draft. I assume you're going to use this for file format conversions, which is what the app was primarily designed for, as well as an uploader for the Stanza iOS app. You can use it to read ePub, but there are some focus issues. Like, if you if you try to use the bookmarks function to move to a page, you need to move to the first visible item with VO-Command-Home in order to start reading at the first paragraph on that page. Most of the web navigation commands can be used (enabling the 1 letter navigation feature in VoiceOver Utility for QuickNav is useful), and navigation by headers works well. You can navigate by paragraph, line, sentence, word, character, etc. Hope you're not planning on using this as an ePub reader, because while it's doable if you take time to work through the focus quirks, I find the experience annoying, so for straight text reading (not interacting to review text) Adobe Digital Editions Preview 1.8 is better, or even the new paid app, Bookle, in the App Store, which is still somewhat primitive. (You don't have to press an arrow key to read the next page, the way you currently do in Adobe Digital Editions Preview, but it's irritating that, for example, you can't move back from the start of a chapter to the last page in the previous chapter with one key press -- you get taken to the start of the previous chapter.) HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 5, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get Stanza for the Mac with no dice. When I try to get > it directly from there site, I get a safari can't connect with the server > message. I downloaded it from download.com but, it crashes with out even > opening. I have to force quit it. Can someone send me the Stanza app via > dropbox? I'm appreciate it. > > TIA > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
