[Dtb-talk] A BookShare Book and DAISY Players

[Dan Burke]

Mike,

Tried it and it works fine.  Navigation by several heading levels
successful (there are five heading levels).  Page navigation failed,
though it appears as an available option.

HTH
Dan

On 9/11/11, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I'll download it and see.  You didn't by chance download a version
> with images, did you?
>
> Dan
>
> On 9/11/11, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is anyone on this list using a Book Port Plus and has a BookShare
>> membership? I'd be curious as to whether the BP+ can handle the following
>> BookShare book in DAISY format: Windows Power Shell Cookbook by Lee Homes.
>> I
>> haven't tried this with Amis or FSReader on a PC but Internet Explorer on
>> the PC almost chokes on the XML file due to its complexity. Both the
>> BookSense and BrailleSense Plus are brought to their knees with this book
>> due to running out of memory. The Victor Reader Stream, on the other
>> hand,
>> handles the book although it takes a glacial age to process before
>> beginning
>> reading. I'm curious as to what happens when one tries to read this book
>> with the Book Port Plus.
>>
>>
>>
>> I suspect that the reason the HIMS products can't handle the book is to
>> the
>> relative primitiveness of memory allocation and paging under Windows CE.
>> The
>> Stream, by contrast, runs a flavor of LINUX so I surmise can handle the
>> virtual memory required to deal with the complexity of this book.
>>
>>
>>
>> T I A.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Freeman
>>
>>
>>
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