ILiad FAQ - Viewer
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[edit] Online Viewer?
The iLiad was never meant to be an online viewer, but since it has been talked about a lot, iRex is considering some sort of web capture. Basicaly there would be a web server catching the user requests, and creating/sending an offline page. ***
It isn't final that it will be created, but it is planned to begin the study of it's implementation around the end of the year. It's not first priority, because anything that would require constant wireless will be a major power drain.
[edit] RSS capabilities?
No RSS now, unless you use the pc to capture and then transfer to the device.
[edit] Can you install your own fonts? If so, which type of fonts (TTF, PS, OpenType)?
I can't install fonts on my device, but i can create PDFs with any font i want. See picture with a list of fonts
It's one of the things they are working on the final version, but it seems it is giving them some problems. I'll have to ask to see how it is working :P
[edit] What book formats does it support in total? Do they plan on implementing support for more formats?
The device reads pdf and html/xhtml. I have been reading pdfs i already had, or created pdf's from regular text, because right now it gives the best formatting (hiphnization, page layout, etc).
Viewers will become available with time. Alex told me they will invest heavily on it after the device begins selling.
Formats like mobipocket are expected, but they (mobipocket) haven't responded to Irex yet.
The suport for Apabi and Openreader is also being studied, but don't know how far it is.
There is also the possibility of users creating viewers.
Support for encripted PDFs is only expected end of the year (there is already a company working on it).
I asked about support for LIT files, and was told Microsoft hasn't answered to any of the requests from iREx.
We will probably have to wait for a "user" viewer. Or just convert to html files.
The device isn’t recognizing txt yet. TXT will be handled by the htm viewer. They just forgot to associate the extension with the viewer.
[edit] Can you provide your own styles for XML files?
Do you mean if i can create my XML file with my styles? Or if i can change an existing XML to what I like?
Yes to the first, anything that a browser can do the Iliad should be able to do, if you are thinking XML only without use of plugins.
The second is trickier since it would require a lot of convertion (which can easily go wrong).
[edit] I want to know if the iLiad is capable of displaying multibyte characters (especially Japanese) in it's PDF/TEXT/XHTML browsers.
There are some downloadable files to test this:
< Showing samples of Unicode files, obviously capable of displaying the content >
Link to the post in the Mobileread Forum
[edit] Oh, and it seems that the iLiad can't display UTF-8 plain text. I somehow had a wrong idea that the iLiad have a text viewer.
Actually i changed the txt to htm because the device wasn't recognizing the format. So it's the xhtml viewer in the pics.
[edit] In the reader software available, is there some that can reformat the text according to the zoom factor (i.e. re-wrap the text nicely)?
The html reader allows zoom and re-wrapping of the text. The PDF viewer does not allow this at the moment.
[edit] Is the iLiad able to rotate the page 90 degrees to display half of A4 page (landscape mode)?
It's one of the features of the "final" pdf viewer. If everything goes ok it should be available in the next update, or at least by the end of September. It will depend on the implementation of the other viewers if they can use landscape.
[edit] What HTML-Browser is installed on the machine?
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv5tel; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060622
The browser seems to run under root priviliges, Java Script is activated. It seems to be the minimo browser.
[edit] What downloads are available on the XEB-Viewer/Publisher?
The Iliad is able to display .xeb-Files. There is a chinise Version of the Publisher avalable here. There is also a reader for displaying xeb files on windows machines and a Plug-In available.
[edit] Is there a good example for a PDF-document suitable for reading on the ILiad?
Yes, user wiljo in the mobileread-forum has put up Voltaire's "Candide" as an example. Please have a look here.
