[OLPC library] questions about PDFs

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:02 PM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:
> Samuel Klein wrote:
>>
>> A few notes on books:
>>
>> please check out the latest wikibooks bundle in
>> [[Collections/G1G1/8.2]] -- unfortunately, those are still pdf's.
>> This should change for the next release, hopefully in time for 8.2.1.
>
> Indeed.  E.g. Big_Cats.pdf doesn't fit rotated, its TOC doesn't jump to
> pages, and all its enticing blue hyperlinks to Wikipedia don't do anything
> in Read (and you can't copy their URL or determine it in any way) :-(
> Browsing to a PDF means Browse and Read are both open, and about 30% of the
> time in 8.2.0 candidate builds I get a memory lockup.
>

Please file tickets for issues like these in Read as soon as you get
them, and cc me (my Trac id is sayamindu). I want Read to Just
Work(tm) and not readjusting zoom when screen is rotated/changed is a
big failure to me in that respect.

Thanks,
Sayamindu


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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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