Hi Esther, Yup.
I did. Are you running Stanza on snow leopard or Lion? I'm starting to think their is a compatibility issue with Lion. Thanks for any further assistance you can provide. Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
