Stanza beta 5 released

Thu, 06/12/2008 - 12:27 — marc

We are happy to announce the release Stanza 1.0 beta 5! You can download it from http://www.lexcycle.com/download.

This release fixed some formatting flitches on the Kindle/Mobipocket reader, as well as allows the user to set a custom background and font color.

Please enjoy this new release, and, as always, your feedback, bug reports, and opinions are all welcome and appreciated.

Stanza Support

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 14:32 — Scott Richardson (not verified)

Editing Metadata using Stanza

I would completely love your program if I could edit the metadata (mainly author, title, and type). Right now I have to use MobiCreator, which only runs on windows, which is a pain since I use a Mac. The ability to load a non-Drm'd prc or mobi or azw file and edit it would be fantastic. When do you plan on having this feature available?

Thu, 07/10/2008 - 14:41 — mores

iPhone App?

Wouldn't this be the perfect day to announce a Stanza for iPhone & iPod Touch?

;)

Fri, 07/11/2008 - 01:23 — admin

Funny you should mention that...

We are just putting the finishing touches on Stanza for the iPhone & iPod Touch, with integration with Stanza Desktop. Expect to hear an announcement very soon!

Sat, 07/05/2008 - 03:26 — connorp1

Mobipocket Book Format

I have opened a few books that were in .lit and.html format and exported them as .mobi format, and while the content seems to display OK on my eBook reader (Cybook Gen 3), when I open the exported file again in Stanza, the characters for quotes are changed to:

â€œ and â€ (question mark in diamond)

Also there are Â characters which seem either to represent tabs, or blank lines.

I haven't tried to do the same with other export formats.

I'm enjoying the work you have so far put into Stanza - keep it up. I'm glad to have come across it after it was mentioned by Andy Ihnatko on the Macbreak Weekly podcast.

Sat, 07/05/2008 - 08:00 — admin

RE: Mobipocket Book Format

We have had other reports of a similar problem and we believe we have fixed it for the next upcoming beta (which should be released sometime in the next week). The the problem persists after the next beta, please do let us know and we will investigate more deeply.

Thanks for taking the time to let us know about the problem!

Sat, 06/28/2008 - 20:08 — alan

HTML Ebooks

I have several (hundred) ebooks in HTML format split up so each chapter is a separate file, with links to the next and previous chapter as well as the table of contents.

HTML files from BAEN are typical.

Stanza opens a single HTML file fine, but doesn't seem to follow links to other chapters.

Any chance of a fix for this?

Sat, 06/28/2008 - 21:07 — admin

RE: HTML Ebooks

Stanza currently only supports opening individual files. We do support OPF formats (which are basically zip archives of HTML files with some XML metadata describing the order of the chapters), but for HTML files, they do need to be in a single file.

Thu, 06/26/2008 - 09:58 — FSFunky

Admin privileges needed?

I can't run Stanza under my normal account - I can however if I login as the administrator account.

This on Leopard 10.5.3 with all the latest updates applied.

Thu, 06/26/2008 - 20:10 — admin

RE: Admin privileges needed?

We haven't seen that problem. I just tested running /Applications/Stanza.app from a guest account with no privileges at all, and everything seemed to work OK.

What happens when you try to run it? Does it give an error message, or does it simply not launch?

If you open /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and watch the console messages as you try to run Stanza, do you see any error messages?

Fri, 06/27/2008 - 04:41 — FSFunky

The app bounces a couple of

The app bounces a couple of times in the dock and then disappears.

I get the following in Console.app:

27-06-08 13:39:10 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] [JavaAppLauncher] A 64-bit JVM is available for 1.6.0 27-06-08 13:39:10 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] [JavaAppLauncher] and it is the only version available 27-06-08 13:39:10 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] [JavaAppLauncher] JVMArchs not found in Java dictionary 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] stanza.util.Log WARNING 13:39:15: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.getDefault(Unknown Source) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at stanza.container.swt.Stanza.display(Stanza.java:218) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at stanza.container.swt.Stanza.initDisplay(Stanza.java:200) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at stanza.container.swt.Stanza.(Stanza.java:226) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at stanza.container.swt.Stanza.(Stanza.java:222) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at stanza.container.swt.Stanza.main(Stanza.java:5389) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:115) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:50) 27-06-08 13:39:15 [0x0-0x657657].stanza[10673] at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.launch(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:52)

Sat, 06/28/2008 - 20:17 — admin

RE: The app bounces a couple of

Ahh ... unfortunately, Stanza does not yet run on 64-bit machines. We hope to have that fixed in the near future, but for now it can only be run on 32-bit Macintoshes.

Thu, 06/19/2008 - 15:01 — raluke

Editing title and author

I'd like to send copies of long pdf articles I find on the web to my Kindle. The title of the article is automatically set to the name of the pdf file and the author is automatically set to my name (since it's my computer, presumably). Is there, or will there, be any way to edit these before converting to Kindle format?

Thanks,
-Robert

Thu, 06/19/2008 - 15:12 — admin