Author Topic: LTR="false" issues  (Read 1587 times)

softcorner

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LTR="false" issues
« on: June 13, 2009, 04:53:25 am »
This is great application.
I see these several issues when using ltr="false" with v1.36

1: The book shows up blank unless you click on the first page
2: The first page is not in the center but to the left
3: Start Slideshow button does not work
4: Jumping page thru input box does not go to the correct page. Some page#s do not do any thing. Some initialization issue here.
5: "Previous page" button flips 2 pages.
6: Page navigation (dots) does not reflect the correct page numbers. The first from left says "First Page" and it takes you to the last page. In a Right-to-Left book the right most dot on the first line should say "First Page" and should take you there.
7: "Next Page" button does not work.
8: Last Page button takes you to the 2nd last page. It should take you to the backcover.
9: When I used Arabic language (I created Arabic language file) the button shows up the Arabic text but in REVERSE order. I will email you the language file and you can see this by comparing contents in it against what is shown on the buttons.
10: The biggest of all issues is that to create a proper Right-to-Left books, pages have to be arranged in reverse order. The Front-outer Cover (which is the Back outer cover in a Left-to-Right language, such as English) has to be placed at the very bottom and the Back-Outer cover has to be the top page in the megazine.xml file. All pages in between also have to be placed in reverse order... I had to modify the pdf2swf.bat file to create swf pages in reverse order to make the book appear right.

All these issues go away when ltr="true" but, off course, the book is displayed in reverse order.

There is the example book here:

www.carymasjid.org/eQuran/quran.html

Please mute the sound as most of the pages have sound associated with. I am still using English language on this page to avoid confusion among the visitor due to item 9 above.

I hope you could produce all these bugs but if need help send me an email.

Thanks

More Info:
In v1.36 the anchor:xxx also does not work properly.
I moved back to v1.35 (on my local copy) and using the same xml files, most of the issues were gone. So the fix for ltr="false" in v1.36 has created more issues.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2009, 06:51:46 am by softcorner »

Florian Nücke

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Re: LTR="false" issues
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2009, 08:21:02 pm »
Confirmed. To my big surprise, because I was pretty sure I tested the attribute rather extensively (and actually fixed some issues)... don't know what went wrong there. Will try to fix this with the next version. Thanks for the comprehensive list!

Hopefully all fixed in 1.37. Closed.
« Last Edit: July 05, 2009, 08:35:03 pm by Florian Nücke »
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

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