Quin13h ago

I've just released version 0.8.5 of Paperback, my incredibly fast, light-weight ebook and document reader. Changelog:

  • Added basic support for tagged PDF files! #364, #365.
  • Added page support to epub books. #379, #380.
  • Added support for legacy Powerpoint presentations (*.ppt)!
  • Added support for legacy Microsoft Word documents (*.doc)!
  • Added support for mobi and AZW3 books! #369, #378.
  • Added support for encrypted Microsoft Office documents. Currently Legacy word, modern Word and modern Powerpoint are supported, with legacy Powerpoint planned for the future.
  • Added the ctrl+q shortcut to exit the app. #368.
  • Added support for zipped books from Bookshare (both DAISY and Word)! #36, #358, #360.
  • Alt text for embedded images should now be properly shown.
  • CHM documents now properly support internal link navigation.
  • Fixed bookmark sounds triggering at paragraph start instead of the bookmark's position. #363.
  • Fixed go to page being off by 1. #389.
  • Fixed the escape key not working to close the open as dialog.
  • Fixed the reader context menu not showing up on right-click or the Applications key. #362.
  • Fixed the wrong document sometimes being focused when opening documents from the command line.
  • Image only PDFs are once again detected and alert you of their existence.
  • It is now possible to navigate through images and figures with g/shift+g and f/shift+f, respectively.
  • Paperback will now respect your application dark mode setting.
  • Removed DAISY XML support, as its no longer needed.
  • Switched back to the native Win32 first letter navigation in the table of contents tree.
  • The error loading dialog now shows more detailed error messages.
  • The webview will now open much faster and smoother. #359.Download: https://paperback.dev/downloadsSponsor on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/trypsynthDonate with PayPal: https://paypal.me/tygillespie05Enjoy, star the repo, rent a billboard, format your hard drive, do what you do.
add initial tagged pdf support by aryanchoudharypro · Pull Request #364 · trypsynth/paperback

added links and headings support using bookmarks and anatations make headings navigation actually work remove font based heading parsing Format fix: Paragraphs in PDF files are split into multiple ...

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Show threadjade13h ago
@TheQuinbox i just tried to grab this and got a page not found
Show threadQuin13h ago
@shefoof For what? The downloads page? It loads here.
Show threadjade13h ago
@TheQuinbox yeah it's giving me page not found on any github links
Show threadQuin13h ago
@shefoof weird, doesn't happen here.
Show threadClare Page13h ago
@TheQuinbox @shefoof I had the same problem with the link which mentions downloads: somehow the word "sponsor" added itself to that link, and deleting that word in the address bar, then pressing Enter, brought me to a working downloads page.
Show threadQuin
@frog67 @shefoof Sounds like a bug in your client or something, Fedra opens it properly. What client are you using?
5:25pmWeb
Show threadClare Page13h ago
@TheQuinbox @shefoof I'm using FastSM.
Show threadQuin12h ago
@frog67 @shefoof @MewProjects any clues? Are you stripping line feeds when trying to open URLs for some reason or something?
Show threadMew Projects9h ago
@TheQuinbox @frog67 @shefoof I'm not sure. TC does the same thing as I'm currently using that on this machine.
Show threadx02h ago
@MewProjects @TheQuinbox @frog67 @shefoof Same reason that all of the change list gets concatenated on one logical line I suspect, the bulleted list is getting lost in the plaintext conversion step and when that happens they just get strung end to end. Possible you're using hard HTML line breaks in that between those links if they aren't in a list and the same thing is happening.
Show threadjade12h ago
@frog67 @TheQuinbox tweesecake here
Show threadQuin12h ago
@shefoof @frog67 All the Python clients. Hmm.
Show threadJamminJerry12h ago
@TheQuinbox @shefoof @frog67 actually, I am looking at it threw the option that say view on web, and even the web site there isn't a carage return between the link, and the word Sponcer.