[bd-users] Broken link, and the font choice is too limited!

[DM Smith]

David,

Many thanks for your kind words and your report.

I'll see to fixing the download problem asap and the font problem in  
the next point release, which should be by the end of the month. I  
think I'll make the maximum size configurable.

I've noticed that laptops are getting resolutions that are much  
higher than 100 pixels per inch, but did not consider what that means  
in terms of readability in BibleDesktop.

In His Service,
	DM Smith


On Jun 11, 2006, at 8:33 AM, David Fong wrote:

> Dear BibleDesktop team,
>
> I have enjoyed using BibleDesktop over the past few months, and I  
> find its
> 'ot1nt2' devotional a handy aid to reading the Bible during the  
> year (and
> that must be a good thing!)
>
> It looks like the link to download v1.0.2 via JavaWebStart is broken.
> Clicking on the link results in the error...
>
> =====================================================
>
> An error occurred while launching/running the application.
>
> Title: Bible Desktop v.1.0.2
> Vendor: Crosswire Bible Society
> Category: Download Error
>
> Unable to load resource: file:/E:
> \Eclipse\JSword\bibledesktop/target/installed/bibledesktop-1.0.2.jnlp
>
> ======================================================
>
> Both these errors occurred with Firefox, or if starting from javaws.
> Systems
> - SuSE Linux 9.1 (SunJava 1.4)
> - Ubuntu 6.0.6 (SunJava 1.5, Blackdown Java 1.4)
>
> Downloading the archive and running that archives works okay  
> (except for
> proviso below). The javaws link for the daily snapshot works okay.
>
> I would also really like a wider range of offered font size, i.e.  
> bigger than
> 19 'point'. I use BibleDesktop on a laptop with a small screen,  
> just 8.4
> inches diagonal (WXGA). This works okay when running BibleDesktop with
> Windows, probably because Windows refuses to recognise that I have  
> a 1280x768
> screen and operates at a lower resolution. However, it does not  
> work well
> when I am using Linux, even 19 'point' is too small!
>
> By the way, BibleDesktop crashes Ubuntu/Xubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper  
> Drake) Java.
> This is a bug with the Java implementation, and is because Java mis- 
> handles
> some Truetype/TTF fonts. I have posted a comment about this on my  
> web-site,
> currently ...
>
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/SuSE_notes/node104.html
>
> but the node number changes regularly. The page will be accessible  
> from
>
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/SuSE_notes/index.html
>
> via Installing Ubuntu 6.0.6 -> Software -> Java
>
> Cheerio, David.
>
> -- 
> David Fong : Ivanhoe, 3079, Victoria, Australia.
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