ECopyright 2000-2001 Simon Quinn. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome to EBook for EPOC.
EBook is an electronic book (e-text/e-book) viewer. It supports Palm DOC (Aportis) documents, which are normally used on Palm Computing devices, TCR documents and regular text documents (i.e. ".txt" files, which most word processors can create).
Palm DOC files should not be confused with files with the .doc extension which are Microsoft Word documents, these are not supported by EBook.
Features:
supports compressed and uncompressed Palm DOC files (.prc & .pdb)
supports TCR documents
text document support (.txt) files
Auto Scroll
scrollbar navigation
clipboard copy and copy to file
80 bookmarks per document
Palm DOC & TCR recogniser on ER5 handhelds (Revo/Mako/MC218/S5mx/S7/netBook)
Palm DOC style embedded bookmarks
Palm DOC stored bookmarks
Code page 850 support
EPOC font file format (.gdr) support
online help
small memory usage, whatever size the document viewed
written in C++ for optimum speed
supports Unicode documents available as a separate package.
The homepage for EBook is at: www.geocities.com/ebookepoc/
Special Thanks
Aportis Technologies, Chris & Fred at Palmtime, Scott Ludwig, Darren Peace, Andrew Giddings, G
rald Aubard, Gunter Aigmueller, Salvo Miccich
& Paolo Esini, Richard Northcott & Otfried Cheong at Enfour, Kazuki Kamito
Microsoft Word is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation, Aportis is a registered trademark of Aportis Technologies, Palm is a registered trademark of Palm Inc.
FAfter EBook is started:
1. It will request a file to open.
2. Select the document to view. This should be an EBook file (.prc & .pdb extensions), a TCR file (.tcr extension) or a text file (.txt extension).
Note: Documents are opened as read-only and cannot be changed.
When you re-open a document, you will be returned to the page that you were reading when you last closed it.
When you open a new document your bookmarks for the previous document are automatically saved in a file with the extension .EBM. Also stored in this EBM file is the current document location. Opening an EBM file in the EPOC System file viewer will automatically start EBook and open the associated document.
EBook also has an EPOC recogniser (on ER5 machines) for Palm DOC and TCR files, this means it can detect a valid Palm DOC or TCR file in the EPOC System file viewer. The file does not have to have an extension of .PRC, .PDB or .TCR for it to be recognised. Opening a Palm DOC or TCR file from the EPOC System file viewer will automatically start EBook (if it is not already running) and open the document.
You can tell if a Palm DOC or TCR file is valid on ER5 machines without having to open it as the icon will be the EBook icon. Also its file type will be "application/prc" for Palm DOCs and "application/tcr" for TCR files.
Note: A file with a .prc/.pdb extension does not necessarily mean it is a Palm DOC file.
Also on ER5 machines EBook is associated with .TXT (text) files, opening this type of file from the EPOC System file viewer automatically starts EBook.
When you exit EBook all preferences and bookmarks are automatically saved. Alternatively you can exit EBook without saving the bookmarks and preferences by selecting the Close no save in the File menu.
FTo change the document formatting, choose View or Tools > View preferences.
By default the original formatting of the document will be obeyed, line feeds will reflect exactly how the document appears. To eliminate extra line feeds and save display space on screen, choose Tools > View Preferences > Format > Group By Paragraphs. To immediately change paragraph formatting press Ctrl+P.
To justify text press Shift+Ctrl+J. This does not work in vertical orientation.
By default there are 3 different fonts that can be used: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier. Arial and Times are proportional fonts. Additional fonts are supported through the EPOC font file format (.gdr).
To immediately change fonts press Ctrl+S, which rotates through the 3 default fonts only.
To change the font size choose View > Zoom in and View > Zoom Out.
The default font display is Bold, this can be changed from Tools > View preferences.
An adjustable margin around the displayed text is definable in Tools > View preferences > Other > Margin size.
To change the orientation of the displayed text between horizontal and vertical press Ctrl+Q.
EBook supports code page 850 documents. These are documents that are formatted using DOS and, therefore, some non-English characters do not display correctly under EPOC. If you find some characters are not displayed correctly, choose Tools > View preferences > Other > code page 850, which may fix the problem.
To increase the viewable display area by hiding the scrollbar choose Tools > View preferences > Other > Display scrollbar.
The document view settings are saved when you exit the program and restored when you restart the program.
Note: Exiting the program using File > Close no save does not save these settings.
uDTo set Bookmarks (placeholders within the document) press Ctrl+B or choose Edit > Add bookmark.
Up to 80 bookmarks per document can be defined. These are automatically saved alongside the original document in a bookmark file, which is read whenever the document is opened. If you have specified the Bookmarks Folder in the Tools > General preferences then the bookmarks will be saved in this directory instead. For each bookmark the following is saved:
A Description containing the first 32 characters of the first line
Current date and time
The document position as a percentage
To use a bookmark:
Open the Bookmark dialog by choosing Go to > Bookmarks
1. Select a bookmark
2. Press Go To to jump to that location.
If you return to the Bookmark dialog the last bookmark selected will be highlighted.
To delete a Bookmark:
1. Select the Bookmark
2. Press Delete
EBook can also scan for Palm DOC style embedded bookmarks. Read the Embedded Bookmarks section for more information.
Note: Whenever you save a bookmark, the bookmark list and current position are automatically saved.
Note: EBook will read bookmarks stored in the Palm DOC file.
DEBook has the ability to detect Palm DOC style embedded bookmarks in Palm DOC, TCR and text files.
These automatic bookmarks use markers defined at the end of the file surrounded by angle brackets (< and >) symbols. For instance, placing <(BM)> at the very bottom of a document file will cause all instances of (BM) in the document to be added as bookmarks when the document is scanned. The size of this marker must be no more than 16 characters and it is case sensitive.
The first time EBook opens the document, EBook will deliberately look at the special marker at the end of the document and make a special scan through the document creating bookmarks at each instance of the marker string.
To turn off Bookmark scanning choose Tools > General preferences > Scan embedded bookmarks.
Scanning for bookmarks may be done manually choosing Tools > Bookmark scan.
When bookmarks are automatically added, the first 32 characters of the line (including the marker) are added as descriptions.
Tip: Useful markers to use are *** and CHAPTER. Also the marker definition must be the last characters of the document otherwise any bookmarks will not be detected.
AATo locate a word or phrase choose Edit > Find. Searching begins from the current position to the end of the document, or to the beginning of the document if you are using the Up Direction.
To repeat the previous search, choose Edit > Find next.
Note: Pressing Shift+Ctrl+F will attempt to skip a Guttenberg etext header
bEPage Down using the space bar, enter, page-down key, tap the scrollbar or tap on the bottom quarter of the screen.
Page Up using the Del key, page-up key, tap on the scrollbar or tap on the top quarter of the screen.
Go down a line by pressing the down arrow key, scrollbar down arrow or tap in the 3rd quarter of the screen.
Go up a line by pressing the up arrow, scrollbar up arrow or tap in the 2nd quarter of the screen.
Go to the top of the document by pressing the Home key, dragging the scrollbar thumbwheel to the top, or choosing Go to > Top.
Go to the bottom of the document by pressing the End key, dragging the scrollbar thumbwheel to the bottom, or choosing Go to > Bottom.
Note: The tapping positions change according to the text display orientation.
To go to a particular position in the document press Ctrl+G and enter the percentage position in the document. You can also go to any position in the document by holding down and dragging the scrollbar thumbwheel.
To see the current position in the document press the P key.
Note: Document positioning and position information is not accurate when viewing TCR documents.
To navigate using bookmarks, select a bookmark in the Bookmarks folder or choose Go to > Prev Bookmark or choose Go to > Next Bookmark. These will select the next and previous bookmarks in the order that they appear in the Bookmarks folder.
oBTo copy text to the clipboard
1. Choose Edit > Mark to indicate the beginning of the text to copy.
2. Navigate to the end of the text desired
3. Press Ctrl+C or choose Edit > Copy > Copy.
This will copy text from the mark position to the bottom of the current screen into the clipboard.
To copy text to a file choose Edit > Copy > Copy to file or press Shift+Ctrl+C.
Note: Please remember to clear the clipboard when the clipboard data is no longer required by choosing Edit > Clear clipboard from EPOC System file viewer.
Tip: To copy the whole document to a text file simply press Home, Shift+Ctrl+X, End, Shift+Ctrl+C.
ATo automatically move the page up a line at a time without having to press any keys choose Tools > Autoscroll
To set the speed at which the lines scroll choose Tools > General preferences or press the + and
keys.
To start or stop Autoscroll choose Tools > Autoscroll > Start/Stop or press Ctrl+A (to start) and Esc (to stop).
Autoscroll is automatically stopped when you open a dialog, press a key or select another application.
<CHere you set a number of parameters:
Books folder - set this to the directory that contains your books. This is the directory that is accessed in the Open File dialog. The folder must be a valid drive and directory, e.g. C:\BOOKS\. Leaving this field blank causes the last folder opened to be remembered.
Bookmarks folder - set this to the directory where you want to store your bookmarks. If it is blank then bookmarks will be stored in the same directory as the document. The folder must be a valid drive and directory.
Scan embedded bookmarks - automatically scans for embedded bookmarks when a document is first opened
AutoScroll delay
specifies the delay in seconds for each line.
Tip: EBook checks the directory of the book for a bookmark and will use this if it exists instead of any bookmark in the Bookmarks folder.
=BThe Tools > Information > Document info displays information about the current open document.
For Palm DOCs the following is displayed:
Title - Contains the book title
Filename - the actual file name of the document
Bytes uncompressed - the filesize in bytes of the document when uncompressed
Document Type - "Palm DOC" or "Text/Unknown"
Compressed (Ratio) - Is the document compressed and if so what is the compression ratio
For "Text/Unknown" documents the Title and Records are not displayed.
For TCR documents the Title, Bytes and Compression Ratio are not displayed.
AThere are many utilities available for various platforms to convert existing documents to Palm DOC format. For EPOC I've ported MAKEDOC7 and made it a companion to EBook. You can download it from here: www.geocities.com/ebookepoc/ in the utilities section. A conversion utility for the alternative TCR format is also available there.
There are many utilities available for the PC to create Palm DOC documents, MAKEDOC7 is also available for DOS and Linux.
}AThe cost is
10 UK pounds.
EBook is shareware and may be used on a trial basis for the first 30 days. If you wish to continue using it please register.
Registering will remove all
screens and you will receive email notifications of new versions, which are free-of-charge for registered users.
To register go to: www.geocities.com/ebookepoc/register.html
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Starting EBookR
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View & formattingR
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BookmarksR
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Embedded BookmarksR
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FindR
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NavigationR
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ClipboardR
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AutoscrollR
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General PreferencesR
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View preferencesR
These allow you to set various formatting parameters for your document. These are global parameters and will affect all documents.
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MiscellaneousR
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How to create Palm DOCSR
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Registering EBookR
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Reporting BugsR
Please report any bugs to Simon Quinn, ebooksupp@bigfoot.com
But first please check the FAQ here: www.geocities.com/ebookepoc/faq.html
If that doesn
t solve your problem, then send a detailed explanation of the problem and if it is repeatable.
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