twinlop.blogg.se - october 2022

#Freda ebook reader for windows 10 pdf#
#Freda ebook reader for windows 10 apk#
#Freda ebook reader for windows 10 update#

For Windows beta-testers, I would need you to tell me the email address that you used for your Windows sign-up for Android users, I will probably just email out an APK file, unless that turns out to be a really unpopular option. If you would like to help beta-test these changes, please contact me (email to would be best, but replies to this post, or PMs in-forum will also work). And I was hoping I might find some volunteers to help out here.

#Freda ebook reader for windows 10 update#

Many small fixes, including an update to the 'dictionary lookup' feature, because of the discontinuation of the on-line dictionary service that I had been using.īecause this is a rather major update, I would like to beta-test it if possible.

In that vein, I also added a setting that can make Freda automatically read aloud the selected text, whenever the selection is changed. I'm hoping this will improve the app's accessibility.

(For the Windows version) Keyboard controls and shortcuts (which can be customised), which allow keyboard-only operation of the app.

You can also choose whether Freda does or does not follow the EPUB/CSS fonts, margins and colours.

Because it's experimental at this stage, this needs to be switched on in the settings screen ('use advanced rendering'='yes').

A new more sophisticated EPUB/HTML/CSS parser, which renders page layouts (including tables) more faithfully, and uses the font sizes and faces (including embedded fonts) as specified by the EPUB file.

#116 Jim Chapman 11-25-2019, 04:37 AMA major update to Freda is on the way, adding: no reflowing) and for them, Adobe Reader or their web-browser plugin will be a better reading system.

#Freda ebook reader for windows 10 pdf#

Most people who want to read a PDF document will be wanting to see content in the original layout (i.e. But I am minded not to associate Freda with PDF files, or make any great song and dance about the fact that Freda has some capability to show the content of PDF files. MOBI/.AZW format, and publish that association, because I think MOBI rendering does basically work (excepting that it is slow, and right now the table of contents is broken, for some reason that I've not yet got to the bottom of). Right now, my inclination is to associate Freda with. Which is fair enough, because it is not very good (on the other hand, it is hard to do much better, because PDF really does not expect to be reflowed to fit a small screen, so any rendering solution based on reflow is going to be a mess). I've already picked up some bad reviews in the Store from people who don't like Freda's rendering of PDF. But if I don't do it, then the app is somewhat less useful. by making a file-type association) then I'm going to cause irritation to people who try to use it for those book types, and find it does not work for them.

If I strongly claim that Freda is able to read PDF and MOBI (e.g. Right now, I am a bit conflicted about this. mobi (I haven't tried to other formats.Thank you for checking this out, and reporting the issue. Even using the "find app on Store" option fails to list Freda as an app for. With "desktop" applications, like calibre, you get the option to manually navigate to an installed app in such situations, but with the "modern" apps you don't have that option. As a result, it can't be set as the default reader for those formats. pdf, at least on my installation which was somewhat old and has been updated. It seems that the app, or perhaps the update process, has failed to "publish" the fact that it supports.

I have found that the MOBI files I've tried all looked good and were quite readable.

PDF layout is quite bad (it should work OK for books consisting mainly of a sequnce of paragraphs, but images will end up out of place)įeedback welcome.I've begun to experiment with using Freda to read MOBI, AZW3, & PDF, though as yet I can't provide much feedback.

It's quite a lot slower than EPUB and FB2.

Freda does now support opening these book types, but: The other newly introduced feature that I'd be interested to have feedback on is the reading of MOBI/AZW and PDF books.