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RE: The main feature I use Palmreader Pro for.
Since I can't, I upgraded to PRP, which still looks pretty good. Thanks Kezza, for the review!
HandEra 330
Bill McKelvey
a 330 user.
RE: HandEra 330
The Palm support and Palm Digital Media sites have precious little information about what exactly the Palm Reader supports and doesn't support. Since I wasn't sure about the HE330 and couldn't find anything out from Palm, I couldn't really mention it.
Glad to see that it works well, though.
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RE: HandEra 330
RE: HandEra 330
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RE: HandEra 330
Under "The Pros:" it ought to say support for hi-res screens instead of, "Support for Sony hi-res screens".
Iffy high-res usefulness?
For a long-time, we were forced to use this reader if we wanted to utilize their great selection of books, but the improvements they've made in the past couple of months with both their freeware version and now this Pro version have made the reader stand out as well.
RE: Iffy high-res usefulness?
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RE: Iffy high-res usefulness?
RE: Iffy high-res usefulness?
RE: Iffy high-res usefulness?
RE: Iffy high-res usefulness?
Can Fonts be Installed on MS?
Waste of Money and Memory for my m515
RE: Waste of Money and Memory for my m515
RE: Waste of Money and Memory for my m515
smoothing (looks great on Clie hi-res). Has anyone
compared this with the Palm Reader Pro font
smoothing?
RE: Waste of Money and Memory for my m515
If only CSpotRun could read peanut format!
Sub-pixel???
RE: Explanation of font smoothing
RE: ???
Who's the reviewer
RE: Who's the reviewer
I'm suggesting you go there because if you have questions, there's just loads of useful people full of information there.
And, for some reason, I'm hesitant to post my email on here. And, yes, I realize it's readily accessible to anyone in the forums. Just call me paranoid, I guess.
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A Required feature - HTML
BTW, I have been using the Palm Reader Pro for a couple of months, and quite enjoy it.
RE: A Required feature - HTML
Speeding up Palm Reader Pro
I could not verify this on a Clie 770, but it should work too.
(Palm Reader Pro can be *very* slow with the overall GUI behaviour.)
Still a RAM Hog
RE: Still a RAM Hog
Every once in a while, though, I'll find an 85k chunk. This usually happens if PalmReader crashes and doesn't get a chance to clear out memory.
I should probably mention that Screenshot hack and the colors preferences of palmreader don't get along. These are the only crashes I've had with palmreader.
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RE: Still a RAM Hog
For Mac users, the DropBook converter is still the best and simplest choice for converting ASCII (7-bit) or converted HTML (PML tags).
:-) Lo
Colors + Screenshothack 1.5
You should mention, that "crash" (color menu with screenshothack) means crash with forced HARDRESET.
(At least this is what I experienced.)
I did a review in "beam" which is a free PalmReader eZine and pretty much came to the same conclusions like you.
You can get "beam" here:
http://www.pdassi.de/product.php?prod_id=3803
... but I should mention that it is in german.
alex
RE: Colors + Screenshothack 1.5
Could you email me with details about your crashes with screenshot hack? I've been writing back and forth with the developer trying to figure out where the conflict is. I'd like to compare systems and software configurations and maybe find a common link.
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Book locations
RE: Book locations
We now look in the launcher folder, \PALM\Books, and \My Documents\Peanut Press (so you can swap SD cards between Palms and PocketPC's).
The free version and the Pro version look in the same locations.
-peter fry
palm digital media group
RE: Book locations
RE: Book locations
-peter fry
palm digital media group
Dictionary launch
Do you have any plans on making the dictionary launchable? It's a nice dictionary, but it would be nice to be able to access it quicker when using an app other than PRP.
RE: Book locations
RE: Book locations
RE: Book locations
-peter fry
palm digital media group
PRP Font Support
this makes this add-on useless in my opinion.
Jeff
RE: PRP Font Support
12 point is actually pretty large -- the standard Palm "large" and "large bold" fonts are around this size.
The 18 and 24 point fonts are very nice on hi-res devices, but are too large (IMHO) for low-res handhelds.
Thanks,
Lee
RE: PRP Font Support
Answer: Because Palm wants you to buy the AGFA font package ... sucker.
RE: PRP Font Support
-peter fry
palm digital media group
RE: PRP Font Support
palmreader pro
As to fonts: so what, I'll download my own thank you very much.
Dictionary: does anyone seriously need to refer to a dictionary when reading? Most texts outside of professional literature seem to use a relatively low level of reading/comprehension IMHO. Even with professional literature it is more a matter of the geometric expansion of acronyms and/or multiple uses of the same acronym that would present a problem if used out of context.
I expect that exceptions to this would be readers who are reading text in their non-native language, but they would seem to be such a small portion of the market to me as not to have to saddle me with the cost of their receiving some sort of dictionary for which I have no use.
RE: palmreader pro
Regarding fonts, I still have to try out this new version, but I've been just fine with the default fonts in the free reader. Once I get the Pro one installed, I'll have more to say.
A dictionary can be useful if you encounter a term you don't know while reading. This can happen often with classic texts from a few hundred years ago, or even more modern texts with flowery prose. I'm sure H.P. Lovecraft has left a few people confused with his real English words (not counting the ones he made up). And, I would often end up looking up words for colleagues at work on the Internet, just to make sure they were being used properly in documentation and flyers.
RE: palmreader pro
Can you please stop ranting about companies offering such 'useless' products as dictionaries? Imagine some people are not interested in games!!!
Fool!
RE: palmreader pro
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RE: palmreader pro
RE: palmreader pro
Feature needed.
A more discreete way to mark pages with a bookmark. It would be better to have a little icon besides the toolbar button like in pages with notes. The dog tagged page has a boorder that makes it look very different from other pages.
toolbar buttons for opening a book and for starting auto scrool.
PalmReaderPro Undocumented Feature
Just thought I'd mention it as the reviewer didn't.
beam conflicts on palm 515
conflict?
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The main feature I use Palmreader Pro for.