RichReader and RichReader Freeware

Copyright © 2000 Michael Arena. All rights reserved.
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Change History:

1.62 - 10/13/2000
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* Color screen rotation fixed.

1.61 - 06/13/2000
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* Color text! (from HTML or RTF files).
* Color icon for Launcher.
* Changed converters so that the small font will be used only for fonts which
  are 8 points or less.
* PDF converter now included in ZIP file.

1.60 - 01/24/2000
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* Categories!  Up to 30 user defined categories can be created for document
  grouping.
* Option for Large or Small View controls.  Several users have requested larger
  controls for the scrollbar and icons on the View screen to make tapping
  easier.
* Documents in the Main window are now sorted by name.  Also, the selected
  document will display the Date, Size, and Category in the status lines.
* Linux versions of the document converters RTF2Doc and HTML2Doc.
* Fix for non-ASCII character conversion in HTML2Doc.

1.54 - 08/02/1999
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* Released RichReader Freeware version!
* Fixed bug which caused a crash if View button was pressed and there was no
  document selected from the list.
* Fixed issue where Word created bookmarks which contained only blanks.
  RichReader will suppress any bookmarks which are blank.

1.53 - 07/21/1999
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* Lots of Bookmark improvements:
  - Bookmarks from a Microsoft® Word file will be added for:
    1. Any "Heading" style (eg. Heading 2): the selected text will
       be bookmarked.
    2. Bookmarks added manually through the Insert -> Bookmark... menu.
    3. A Table Of Contents (TOC): each item in the TOC will be bookmarked.
  - Bookmarks from an HTML file will be added for:
    1. Header tags (<H1>, <H2>, <H3>, <H4>, <H5>, <H6>)
    2. Anchor tags (<A NAME="abc"></A>).
* Fixed bug with Find Again shortcut and menu option.  Previously, only the 
  on-screen icon worked.  Now all three methods for Find Again work.

1.52 - 06/07/1999
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* Rotate the screen! Either Clockwise or Counter-Clockwise.
* The number of Bookmarks has increased to 200.
* The HTML2Doc converter now properly handles non-ASCII characters entities
  and many more HTML 3 tags.
* Footnotes are set off from the text by horizontal lines.
* The Unregistered version allows displaying of the first 8-9 screens of a
  document (double the previous value).

1.50 - 05/10/1999
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* Now you can convert HTML files to RichReader format with HTML2Doc!  This
  command line program behaves similarly to RTF2Doc.
* Minor GUI changes to WRTF2Doc.

1.47 - 04/26/1999
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* WRTF2Doc and RTF2Doc will now automatically install the converted files
  in the HotSync install directory and set the HotSync install flag in
  the registry.  This means it is no longer necessary to use the Palm Install
  Tool.  Moving documents from a Word Processor to the Palm is now only 3 steps:
   1. In the Word Processor: save the document as an RTF file.
   2. Run WRTF2Doc and set the Install flag when converting.
   3. Press the HotSync button on the cradle!

1.45 - 04/19/1999
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* Added a Preferences screen to the Options menu.
* Added an option to the Preferences screen to control the behavior of tapping
  the screen in View mode.  If option is set, then tapping the screen will
  scroll up/down one page.  If not set, then scroll up/down one line. (Many
  users have requested this: Bradley DeGouttes, Brent McPherson, Mark Hasseman,
  Gerold Krommer, etc.)
* The Main window will now remember the last document viewed and will
  automatically highlight that document in the list (suggested by Jacques
  Turbé)
* When using Find or Find Again, a small window containing the message
  "Finding..." will pop up while searching so that you know the program is
  doing something (suggested by Mark Hasseman)
* Changed the Find and Add Bookmark dialogs to automatically select the current
  text when the dialog opens so that typing will replace all text (suggested by
  Mark Hasseman)

1.42 - 04/14/1999
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* Added WRTF2Doc, a windows based conversion utility for converting RTF to
  compressed AportisDoc™ format .pdb files.  It is my first MFC application
  so it may not be pretty but it works.  NOTE: You may need some extra
  Microsoft DLLs to run this MFC program (see the web site).  The command 
  line program RTF2Doc is still supplied.
* View a document in a single font size/style.  Normally, "plain" documents
  (not created from RTF files) are displayed in the Normal Medium size font.
  This new feature allows you to select the font size and any combination of
  styles to use as the display font for these documents.

1.4  - 03/28/1999
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* RTF2Doc is now a one step conversion process!  A third party text conversion
  program is no longer needed!  RTF2Doc will convert directly from a Rich Text
  Format file (.rtf extension) to a compressed AportisDoc™ format file
  (.pdb extension).  You will still need to run 3Com's Instapp.exe to prepare
  the .pdb file for a HotSync.  See the Install.txt file.
* The unregistered version will now allow you to view the entire RichReader
  Documentation file.  This should greatly help anyone evaluating the program
  before deciding to purchase.  This file is supplied in the ZIP file as
  RichReader.pdb (with the name "RichReader Doc" on the Palm).  All other
  documents will remain limited to the first few screens in the unregistered
  version. (Thanks to Brent McPherson for the suggestion)
* Remember, always visit the web site for the most recent information.

1.34 - 03/25/1999
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* Fixed problem with files modified by SmartDoc.  It sets the "version" in the
  file header to an undocumented value which caused the text to appear
  uncompressed to RichReader.  (Thanks to Bill May for all of his help)
  IF YOU USE SmartDoc WITH RichReader, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION.

1.33 - 03/20/1999
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* Main window will now display an unlimited number of documents (previously
  there was a limit of 32)
* Fixed problem with paragraph bullets/numbering in RTF2Doc.exe.  There is
  still an issue with Word 97 style of numbering when saved to RTF.  (Thanks to
  Roland Soltysiak for helping me find the bug)
* Added more space around the tiny controls in the status/control bar on the
  View screen which should help prevent accidentally tapping the wrong control.
  (Thanks to Jacques Turbé for the suggestions)

1.3  - 03/15/1999
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* Manually Add and Delete Bookmarks!
* Read saved bookmarks created by "other" Doc reader applications!
* Find and Find Again!
  - Search from the Top of the document or from the Current Position
  - Case of letters is ignored (i.e. a = A)
  - Whitespace characters are all equivalent (Space = Tab = Newline = Carriage
    Return)
  - Wildcards!  A question mark (?) or period (.) matches any character.
* NOTE: It is recommended that you Delete older versions of RichReader on your
  Palm computer before installing this version.  Your will have to re-enter
  your Registration Key (which remains the same as for previous versions).

1.2  - 03/09/1999
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* Added Bookmarks feature.
  Bookmarks from the source RTF file will be converted to tags in the
  converted Palm document.
  Up to 100 bookmarks can be displayed.
* Now allows up to 32 documents to be displayed in the Main list.
* Modified some of the icons on the View control bar.

1.1  - 03/06/1999
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* Fixed calculation of record size while reading document which caused a crash.
  (Records which had been changed on Palm the device by a Doc editor like QED
  would modify the record sizes of a document).

1.0  - 03/01/1999
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* Released