#orb viewer

ORB Viewer 2.0 only supports iOS 8 or later, and it’s the heavily refactored to support following important new features.

Import Books from iCloud Drive or other apps

Not only import .orb files via iTunes File Sharing, but also from iCloud Drive and any app that can export the file. Now, it’s your choice to use any service you want.

Faster and Power Saving for SWF Animation

SWF animation is supported since ORB Viewer 1.8. Now, the animations were rendered with Core Animation that’s much faster and saved over 80% power. Seeing the SWF animation in the page won’t drain out your power anymore.

Support Landscape Orientation

Some users asked me to support it for the iPad covers. Now, you don’t have hold the iPad anymore while reading the books.

By the way, the text would be larger and easier to read when enable Reader Mode in landscape orientation.

  Enjoy your reading.

Limits of animation pages of an ORB book

Before 1.9, ORB Viewer only parsed and rendered the first frame(page) of .swf file.

Beginning of The Animation Support

The animation pages were supported since ORB Viewer 1.9. It can play the frames after you touched the play button.

So readers can see the animation of the .swf page directly on iPad. I think it is very useful if you need to explain a complex idea or concept with animations. That…

  What’s New?

Support iOS 8.

Fixed the missing replaced objects bug in the page animation.

Optimized the hit testing to zoom in the text or image you exactly tapped with animations.

Refined UX with fade animations without flashing our eyes.

More

How to package Flash documents (.swf) to an ORB book to read or demo on iPad

ORB Viewer Product Web

Free Trial – ORB Viewer Lite (No support animations…

ORB Viewer Lite (Free)

It’s approved few hours ago and free to download on App Store.

The Lite version contains limitations different from ORB Viewer, such as:

Import books with iTunes File Sharing only and you can’t delete books in App.

Only the first book can be opened.

Contains Ads.

For people who want to try it, just download it for free.

Caution!!

If you paid for the official version, please delete the lite…

What’s New in ORB Viewer 1.6

Bookmark Note

If you take note in the bookmark page, the following note will show up.

Tap the note to toggle it’s position.

If you don’t want the note to show up at all, you can turn off the note in the setting of the toolbar.

Search Book by Name

If you have many books, you can search by the book name now.

There are also some other minor UI refinement.

Hope you can enjoy the books any time…

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.