On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Jim Gettys wrote:
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats has evince's
currently supported formats. I don't know exactly how we have it built.
it's disappointing to see that they miss the
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:06:29 -0500
From: James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader
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All,
As the author of Read Etexts
itself.
James Simmons
Subject: Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader
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Hi James and David,
I want to track additions and improvements to the XOs eBook Reader on
our Feature
more formats. I
don't feel qualified to work on Read itself.
James Simmons
Subject: Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader
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Hi James and David,
I want to track
stopgaps
until the XO has a better Read activity that supports more formats. I
don't feel qualified to work on Read itself.
James Simmons
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David,
Actually, the Journal *does* let you choose whatever Activity you like
to open a document with. For instance, with a Zip file you can open it
with EToys, View Slides, or Read Etexts. What the Journal doesn't do is
open the one you'd like as a default. If you just Resume a Zip file
On 28.10.2008, at 11:38, James Simmons wrote:
What the Journal doesn't do is
open the one you'd like as a default.
/usr/share/sugar/data/activities.default
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Surely the solution for reading books is to ignore pdf - a format
optimised for serialising text for print such that printing (which the
XO doesn't even support yet) works the same way everywhere - and going
to another well defined format more suitable for reading on a
computer, such as
Am 27.10.2008 um 05:54 schrieb Benjamin M. Schwartz:
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the full-screen mode is useless as the large icon to revert back to
normal
covers up the text in the upper corner.
That icon is tiny, at least on my copy of Read. It certainly occupies
less vertical space
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ebooks are just the tip of the iceberg. (and probably only the first
iceberg)
Do you have a plan to translate all the existing pdf files into your new
wonderful format?
Even if you came up with a new/wonderful ebook
Surely the solution for reading books is to ignore pdf
That's pretty limiting. There are more legal downloadable books
available in PDF than in any other format, about 600,000 on the
Internet Archive alone. Scanned-in paper books are still the most
popular sort. Producing text, rtf, or html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
opening the book in .html just produces a lot of errors becouse the book
is spread across lots of files, and the jurnal isolation mechanisms copy
the file being opened to a temporary directory, where all the links to the
other files don't work.
Note that you could
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, S Page wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
opening the book in .html just produces a lot of errors becouse the book is
spread across lots of files, and the jurnal isolation mechanisms copy the
file being opened to a temporary directory, where all the links to the
other
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, S Page wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In an ideal world the book would be packaged as a single collection (.xol)
file, so downloading it would unpack it in ~/Library and add it to the
content navigation in the OLPC Library home page. You could try
On 10/27/08, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27 Oct 2008, at 04:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just gave up on trying to use my XO to read e-books (build 767)
I read a number of quite large pdf documents and research papers on
the XO, Read has been good for me and though there
All,
As the author of Read Etexts I am grateful for all the mentions of my
Activity on this mailing list. To answer David Lang's question, being
able to read Gutenberg's plain text files without converting them IS the
feature. There are hundreds of thousands of books available in this
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote:
On 27 Oct 2008, at 04:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just gave up on trying to use my XO to read e-books (build 767)
I read a number of quite large pdf documents and research papers on the XO,
Read has been good for me and though there could be
On 27 Oct 2008, at 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote:
On 27 Oct 2008, at 04:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just gave up on trying to use my XO to read e-books (build 767)
I read a number of quite large pdf documents and research papers on
the XO,
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote:
On 27 Oct 2008, at 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote:
On 27 Oct 2008, at 04:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just gave up on trying to use my XO to read e-books (build 767)
I read a number of quite large
S Page writes:
HTML in Browse integrates cleanly with the library/home page,
can use advanced CSS for attractive layout, takes you from a
link to a document without the download-Journal-Read steps,
avoids PDF's fundamental broken-ness rendering a paper page
on a screen, has JavaScript to add
I have no response to many of your points, but I do have responses for a few.
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opening the document in .rtf sometimes works, but about half the time the
XO sits and works for about 30 seconds then goes back to the screen you
were on before.
This is definitely a bug.
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
I have no response to many of your points, but I do have responses for a few.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
opening the document in .rtf sometimes works, but about half the time the
XO sits and works for about 30 seconds then goes back to the
opening the book in .pdf comes the closest to working. I was still
unable to copy the document, so I had to try and read with the USB
stick haning out of the machine. I could zoom so that the text is the
width of the screen, but after doing so I was unable to center the
text (the arrow
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like a pdf reader that would recognize multi-column formatting and have
a
mode so that the up-down arrows go up-down following columns rather than
pages.
Surely the solution for reading books is to ignore pdf - a
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:14:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how do I do screenshots on the XO?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar/Quick_screenshot_hack
is one method.
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Hal Murray wrote:
opening the book in .pdf comes the closest to working. I was still
unable to copy the document, so I had to try and read with the USB
stick haning out of the machine. I could zoom so that the text is the
width of the screen, but after doing so I was
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Stephen Thorne wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like a pdf reader that would recognize multi-column formatting and have
a
mode so that the up-down arrows go up-down following columns rather than
pages.
Surely the solution
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