[Sugar-devel] [olpc-nz] Test results from Fabiana

[Jim Simmons]

Thanks for your feedback.  Get Internet Archive Books has been
submitted for Pootle translation.  I haven't done a git pull on it in
awhile, so it is possible that translation is already done and I
should release a new version.  Read Etexts has been in Pootle awhile
and at least some of the menus should be translated into some
languages.  I don't know how to go about testing this myself, but
every string in both apps should be in a POT file.

As for reading the downloaded files, PDF is the best format for use
with the Read Activity on the XO using Sugar .82.  DjVu will be
supported in later versions of Read which require a newer version of
Sugar.  Some Internet Archive books will cause out of memory errors in
Read.  One enhancement I believe Sayamindu was looking at was to use
evince in one page at a time mode.  That might help the memory issue
quite a bit.

I too have noticed that PG books in ISO-8559-1 format occasionally
have odd characters or symbols in them.  I'm using Python's functions
for handling text encoding.

James Simmons


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Forwarding the work of Fabiana to sugar-devel and Jim.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
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> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:37, Brenda Wallace <shiny at cpan.org> wrote:
>> see below - our spanish fluent test ninja from Auckland tested both
>> apps from James Simmons.
>> I don't have his contact details - can someone pass this onwards?
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: M Fabiana Kubke <f.kubke at auckland.ac.nz>
>> Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:22 PM
>> To: Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz>
>>
>>
>> Read E-text: According to
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Read_Etexts the activity should read
>> either .txt or .zip. I tried both and it reads fine (txt with iso-8859-1, I
>> couldn't find an ascii encoded file). I checked for the accents on the five
>> vowels, the inverted question marks and exclamation marks (at opening of
>> sentences) and the 'n' with the wiggle on top. Whenever I found an error, it
>> was also present in the original document (as per my mac reader). So
>> probably typos.
>>
>> Get internet archive activity seems to run well, I am able to download, but
>> I cannot find a way of opening the files. It says in
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Get_Internet_Archive_Books that I
>> should be able to read them using the core read activity. I downloaded this:
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4028, and when I click on
>> it it starts downloading and then I go back to the mojo circle. So I don't
>> know why it is not opening. However, the downloaded files try to use this
>> activity to open. I then downloaded this one
>> http://dev.laptop.org/%7Emorgan/bundles/Read-52.xo, and that seems to at
>> least not crash, and it can open some of the image files that I downloaded
>> and that are small enough for it to handle.
>>
>> Both activities have all the menus, etc all in english, so especially with
>> the internet archive it is hard to know what they want to have tested. In
>> the panel that shows the titles, the titles are showing ok in spanish with
>> characters looking OK (as far as I can tell), the description of the
>> download etc is all in english. But as far as I can tell I cannot look
>> inside the document from that activity. It only gives me the option to
>> download in djvu, or b/w or color pdf. Most of the stuff in the library are
>> scanned books, so they download as images (so the text will look ok).
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