#orb reader

Caution to ORB Reader Users!!!

Apple released OS X 10.10 GM Candidate in 9/30.

Selectable text (in Booster Mode) of certain books was not correctly rendered in this new OS.

The other functions perfectly worked as before.

If you need selectable text, please stay in OS X 10.9.5 or before until I fix this issue.

I hope to get it fixed before OS X 10.10 is officially released.

1. Export best quality PDF is optional that can be enabled in Preference.

If you like a smaller (about 1/3rd) PDF file, don’t check it. Enable for the best text quality if you want to print out the PDF.

2. Fixed the bug that can’t to open .zip file directly.

  This new update is still waiting for review. So… it should be available soon.

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Updated – 2014/09/08 – Ver 1.3

* Fixed the bug that failed to locate “Path to Workflow Temp Folder”.

  Trouble Shooting

What’s New in ORB Reader 2.4

Extract the shapes and images of the page

Use Extract to PDF or PNG Service provided by SWF to PDF Converter 1.6 or later to extract the graphics and images of current reading page directly. It’ll send the current page to SWF to PDF Converter for selection and extraction.

SWF to PDF Converter 1.6 or later should be installed to enable this feature.

If you have installed SWF to PDF Converter 1.5

A simple way to tell your .orb file is supported or not.

Most people would like to know if an app really works or not before they pay.

So do I.

Since there are some other audio/video .orb files with the same file extension, here is the simple way to tell if your .orb file is the supported format of ORB Reader/Viewer.

  1. Please rename the .orb file to .zip (System will warn you, just Use .zip)

2. Double-click on the renamed .zip file and decompress it.

What’s New in ORB Reader 2.2

New App Icon

1. Performance optimization of opening a book and scaling with mouse dragging.

2. Reduced 87% App binary size (1.1MB from 4.8MB)

3. Hotkeys changed * Toggle Toolbar (O) * Toggle Thumbnail (T) * Show Library (L)

4. UX refined * Auto show and hide the book library window * Added Library Icon  * New reading progress bar style

5. Bug Fix * Fixed the crash bug if closing the book…

What’s New in ORB Reader 2.0

1. Page Thumbnails  2. Cover Icons of your .orb Files

3. 4x Pages Browsing Speed in Normal mode 4. Important Clipping Bug Fixed

Now, all known rendering errors were fixed.

Thanks for your bug reports that helped to make this a better app.

~ Reading books should be instantly easy and fun ~

Cover Icons of .orb files in ORB Reader 2.0

Once you opened the .orb file with ORB Reader 2.0, the icon of the .orb file will be set to the first page which is usually the book cover.

Now, you can easily manage the .orb files in Finder.

Hope you can enjoy your books as it should be.