So I just got my flyer. I'm loving it however saving edited files seems to be an issue right now for me. Yesterday I tried to save a pdf with annotations on it and it wouldn't let me. After trying several different things I got it to save as. But then when I went and looked at the files on my SD card I had several partial saves, that all I had to do was change the file extension to .pdf and they were viewable with my annotations.
But now I can't save AT ALL using Polaris office on a word document. I've tried save and save as, as well as trying to save a scribe annotation and just a standard text addition. When I try to save and save as, I do not get any type of error or confirmation, just a quick spinning circle that disappears after a second. But nothing is saved.
Anyone run into this?
Called HTC tech support. The guy on the phone wasn't helpful at all, but I figured it out while I was on the phone with him. File extensions must be in lowercase!
I can save edited docs in Polaris.
In PDF Viewer, after inking and saving as flatten, an error message appears. However, the file is actually saved as a .tmp file. If you open an explorer, change .tmp to .pdf. You can open the saved file.
Hope that helps.
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So I am ready to finally take the plunge into eBooks with this tablet. I found that Google's bookstore is a lot cheaper than HTC's partnership with Kobo however I feel HTCs Reader is pretty slick and has Scribe integration. So, I have purchased a book through Google and then downloaded the epub file which imported into HTC's Reader app. Maybe I am too picky here but the cover graphic is way off to the point that you can't tell what book it is by the cover art. Does anybody know of anyway to alter it? I can't seem to find the thumbnails.
Maybe if you edit the epub in Calibre (free ebook library and converter), you could set the cover to resizeable?
I had the same problem but figured out how by going through repeatedly painful trial and error.
Below is what 'I THINK', well at least it works for me.
Import ebub and check cover page
1) You can import your own epub ebooks, by transferring the ebooks to your internal storage folder "Digital Editions" - create one if it is not there.
2) Once transferred, you either need to restart your Flyer, or run your File Explorer (I am using ES) and go to \Digital Editions\ create a dummy file and remove it right after that => this will trigger the Reader to rescan and import the new entries.
3) For the self-imported ebooks, I THINK the Reader captures the first page of the ebook as the cover thumbnail. Make sure the first page has the cover image, and the image stretches the full page in the reader (full page NOT full screen, i.e. you will still see the page layout, just make sure within the page the image does not have spaces).
4) Depend of the epub source, the cover image may not be stretched to full page. If that's the case, you need to edit the epub.
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Edit the epub
1) epub is zipped html. In your pc, rename the .epub to .zip, and extract it using winzip and etc.
2) Find the cover page html, open it with Notepad.
3) It could be that the cover page is not the right size, or that the image is not make full page, or that there is text/ space/ line on the cover page.
4) If it is the problem with the image size, the easiest way is to stretch the image - <img src="your_cover.jpg" style="height:100%; width:100%; text-align:center;"/>
5) If there is extra text/ space/ line on the cover page, remove them.
6) Once done, zip everything back , and rename the .zip to .epub.
7) Transfer back to \Digital Editions\.
8) Clear Reader cache
9) Trigger Reader import books.
sorry for the snoop question....
but how do I "trigger" the reader to import book, seems like there is no menu for it in my flyer sense reader.....
did not make sense at all though....
To trigger the Reader to rescan/ import from the "\Digital Editions\" directory, you either need to 1) restart your Flyer, OR 2) make some changes to the directory --> run your File Explorer (I am using ES) and go to \Digital Editions\ create a dummy file and remove it right after that.
I just got my new gtablet yesterday. The main reason I bought it is so I can carry my tech documents I need for work around with me. These files are some in PDF, and some in html. The PDF files are displaying properly, but when I copy the html documents to the tablet from my PC, and try to open them, they are all blank. I am using the file browser to find the files on \sdcard and open them by clicking, so I am using whatever default browser is loaded on the tablet.
Any help would be appreciated, most of the documents I need to look at are in html format.
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I just got my new gtablet yesterday. The main reason I bought it is so I can carry my tech documents I need for work around with me. These files are some in PDF, and some in html. The PDF files are displaying properly, but when I copy the html documents to the tablet from my PC, and try to open them, they are all blank. I am using the file browser to find the files on \sdcard and open them by clicking, so I am using whatever default browser is loaded on the tablet.
Any help would be appreciated, most of the documents I need to look at are in html format.
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The stock browser does not seem to read local html, but Dolphin,or Opera Mobile browsers do. Download these and iFileManager. Use iFileManager to locate the file, tap to open, and pick Dolphin or Opera Mobile.
Where can I get ifile manager? I downloaded Opera and that's already leaps and bounds better than the default browser!
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Where can I get ifile manager? I downloaded Opera and that's already leaps and bounds better than the default browser!
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If you have opera mobile (not opera mini) you don't need a file manager. You can type
file://localhost/sdcard/
and get to the files from there.
I had iFilemanager from the TNTLite ROM, not sure if it is in Android Market.
I was just about to post that. I tinkered around and found I can just type in file://sdcard/ and see all my files that way. Awesome! I can now do something useful, instead of just play Angry Birds.
Thanks so much!
Alright Nookers, I got one for you all and haven't been able to find exactly what I needed.
I have a project coming up that is going to require a lot of signatures from people when I'm onsite. I would like to keep all this digital on the Nook rather than printing things out. Seems simple enough, and I can find several application that do this, but not to the extent that I would like.
This document is going to be in .doc format. What I have found with the digital signature applications is that they seem to only handle PDF. I've tried looking for Office Applications that allow ink write ups on the document, but haven't found anything yet (haven't paid for D2GO, Quickoffice doesn't have it as far as I've found).
I've thought of a few solutions and maybe you all can help out.
1) After I enter in the necessary information to the document, convert to PDF and use something like SIGNature e-sign. What would be good conversion tools to do such (preferrably ones that don't require to be online doing this).
2) An office app that allows ink mark ups, allowing them to sign.
3) A drawing app that allows someone to sign, then I can do a select all, copy over to the document and resize if necessary.
I'm probably making this way too hard on myself. I'd rather not have to re-create this other persons document as a text enter PDF if I can. Suggestions?
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Alright Nookers, I got one for you all and haven't been able to find exactly what I needed.
I have a project coming up that is going to require a lot of signatures from people when I'm onsite. I would like to keep all this digital on the Nook rather than printing things out. Seems simple enough, and I can find several application that do this, but not to the extent that I would like.
This document is going to be in .doc format. What I have found with the digital signature applications is that they seem to only handle PDF. I've tried looking for Office Applications that allow ink write ups on the document, but haven't found anything yet (haven't paid for D2GO, Quickoffice doesn't have it as far as I've found).
I've thought of a few solutions and maybe you all can help out.
1) After I enter in the necessary information to the document, convert to PDF and use something like SIGNature e-sign. What would be good conversion tools to do such (preferrably ones that don't require to be online doing this).
2) An office app that allows ink mark ups, allowing them to sign.
3) A drawing app that allows someone to sign, then I can do a select all, copy over to the document and resize if necessary.
I'm probably making this way too hard on myself. I'd rather not have to re-create this other persons document as a text enter PDF if I can. Suggestions?
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Why not just find a art program that lets you save the image? When I had to submit paperwork with digitalized signatures the easiest way was to capture the signitures as images and then put the images into the .doc. Though this method will require the signatories to trust you with their signature on a blank page.
The reason that the programs you find use pdf is that .doc is an editable format so it's similar to the problem of the option i mention. That's why those programs use pdfs when can be locked from editing.
I use Calibre to send over books/magazines to Main Memory, and I noticed today that it is sending it to my user allowed 1gb portion. I thought until now that Calibre was just that awesome, and was sending onto the BN partition. But it is in fact sending to /media/My Files/Books (and /mnt/media/My Files/Books).
I have ES File Explorer and root, and also can get into /system if needed due to a mount /sys app. I want to be able to Cut / Paste the files from my Calibre directory (directories...).
What I'm wondering is 2 things.
First... Do I cut from /mnt/media, or just /media? What's the difference between the two?
Second... where do I put these files in order for them to be on the BN partition of 12gb, and have access to them from the library app?
/media/B&N Downloads/Books
/mnt/media/B&N Downloads/Books
/data/books
/data/media/B&N Downloads/Books
I THINK that /data/media/B&N Downloads is the directory I'm looking for, I just wanted to be sure and maybe help someone else out w/ the question/answer here...
I've tried figuring this out as well. I tried moving ebooks to the actual directory where NookBooks download to (data/media/B&N Dowloads/Books), and they aren't detected.
The only directory I've tried that works is under system/media/books. Unfortunately, there is only 600MB available here.
I moved a folder into /system/media/books and after stopping and restarting the Library app, the books within the folder did show up in the Library.
However after long-pressing the book, i noted Delete was not an option from the library.
Not a huge deal... if i want to delete them I can simply mount /system as rw, open ES File Explorer, and delete them.
Can anyone confirm that the /system/ location is actually on the B&N 12gb partition?
edit: this doesn't really resolve my secondary objective, of getting Magazines to show up in the Magazine tab of the Library (there is no /system/media/magazines!)
Do you get issues with the cover picture showing on the nook? I use Calibre to put in the cover pic and metadata before I manually transfer them over (thanks for the tip that Calibre could actually do it for me!) but what really pisses me off about the nook is that it is totally random in terms of covers showing up. I cant suss it out? Ive tried different sizes, resolutions etc and still its hit and miss as to what shows and what doesnt. I would just like to know what conditions make a cover show up and what doesnt? Sorry, I know this isn't an answer to your questions but just thought i'd ask =)
As far as epub books... if the cover doesn't show up after you transfer it, in calibre, convert the book from epub to epub. I think theres something wrong in the initial tag file, like 'Cover' instead of 'cover'. You could try to fix the file (.mpf i think) manually, but I've had no trouble so far converting epub to epub, which does fix the issue.
As for magazines in .pdf format... the nook will not show covers for .pdfs, not sue why, and if i try to convert it to epub the resulting file is only 2 pages long.
So... my reccomendation there is to name all your magazines w/ an author of like Magazine, or manually copy the .pdfs into the Magazines folder at like mnt/media/magazines or somethin. It shows up in the MyNook drive when you connect it. At that point... at least all your coverless files are in one row on the nook...
(I sort by author, and show just book covers. I name all my epub series w/ 'Series Name VII: Book Name', that way the series displays in order.)
Hope this helps.
Oh... one last thing... a lot of my books... the cover is just a little too large for the area on my nooks bookshelf, which ends up cutting off the bottom 10% or so of the cover, until i click on the book. Then as it's opening, it shows me the full cover. If anyone has any fixes for that, fill me in!
AugustusBot is correct regarding epub files. Nook is very specific how the cover image is name and meta-tag. It must be "cover.jpg" or "cover.jpeg". Any other file name used by some publishers or epub authors simply won't work. I think Calibre simply renames the files and updates meta-tag. I fixed my epub files using Sigil.
Thanks for the help guys! After I add the covers and metadata, I then save the file - which Calibre processes by saving the folder by author then title and the book with the cover and the book itself. But I am assuming that converting it from epub to epub is not the same as I have been doing, which is just saving it. I'll definitely give it a shot. I didn't realise everything had to be so case specific etc. I just presumed that once Calibre saved it - it formatted the cover and labelled it in the proper way since the name from the original source file of the covers are always random and varied.
It sucks that pdfs don't have the cover shown. I kinda like pdfs to remain in that format but why B&N cannot put the cover to display is beyond me. They cant even use a small font to get the entire file name to show on the cover which is how I label my pdfs.
My second gripe is that the way the books are displayed on the home screen - there is no real alignment because they dont make the thumbnails the same size so some book covers are wider than others etc. I hate seeing some books a pixel or two higher or to the left/right compared to others.
I thought the Color gave the B&N devs time to practice their skills so that the Tablet would be better but to me it seems there is still work to be done.
I had tried using Sigil last week to fix an epub book but found it complicated to use. I'm sure i was just not doing it right even though for editing epubs it seems to be the best there is.
Glad to be of help.
As for your 'home screen' problems... I don't use the BN launcher, i use Go Launcher EX. One of the 4 quick buttons at the bottom of the launcher, I've replaced w/ the Library app... and that app gives you numerous options for how to display your books.
I have seen one small problem there, as I mentioned above, where my book covers are a little ... off... imagine a picture frame of 8x10, and you fit an 8.5x11 page into it, you lose a bit of the edges. This occurs for probably... 1/3 of my books displayed in the Library. Not sure why. When i click on that book, as it opens it shows me the full cover.
I'd love a fix for that and a method of displaying PDF covers.
So i've discovered something about the cover distortion.
I had a cover (Book1) that looked good, and its dimensions were 329x500.
I had another cover (Book2) that distorted, and its dimensions were 283x500.
I manually resized the image for Book2 on my computer to be 329x500. When I reloaded that book onto my Nook and killed/reopened Library, the cover displayed correctly.
What's going on is that Library displays in a certain Width x Height. If an image is below that Width, it scales it up to that width, but maintains the aspect ratio of the image. This causes the Height of the image to be larger than the Height that Library displays, and therefore the bottom portion gets cut off.
I would love for someone with a book purchased from BN store to either A. find the cover jpg on their nook and tell me the dimensions, or B. load that book into Calibre and tell me the dimensions.
I currently have a CD for squaredancers that I sell. The app is a simple app that uses HTML tables and Adobe SWF movies. Samples of this app can be viewed at http://www.squaredancecd.com
I have copied all files to the MicroSD card, and clicked on the introductory page "welcome.htm"
The browser does not come up as an "opening" option, only the choice of HTML editor or HTML viewer...choosing the viewer, I get an error web page basically saying that it can't find content....although the actual hyperlink printed is long.
The same thing happens when I click on an SWF file...get the same response.
Thinking that it needed to be installed on the mnt/SDCard, I moved all files over to the Prime itself.....Still the same page came up.
If I open the stock browser and go to the "sample" website shown above, the pages display perfectly.
How do I get the program to run from the tablet itself. I am trying to stick with the stock browser, because I don't want to make users install a special browser just to run the program.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
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