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So now we have the privilege of paying to difuse Palm's proprietary format. The format may be adequate, but Palmreader is inferior as a reader. It doesn't support 3rd party fonts, it will disable a font hack and not reactiveate it when you exit-an thinly veiled ploy to get you fork out $20 to buy Palmreader Pro w/the skimpy AGFA font pack. Even using Palms burn-into-the-rom standard large font, the doesn't wrap screens in a consistent manner, which means you have to find your place at the top of every new page. You also have to readjust the contrast on greyscale devices upon exit.

I've taken all these issues up with Palm support, which was unresponsive, to put it nicely. Now Palm is offering 3 new ways to get e-book authors to pay to promulgate its sub-par format or, should I say, a format that only works on a sub-par reader. What's the big fat hairy deal? I use PalmReader Pro and have none of the complaints that you have described and I think it is an excellent reader. I have had no problems with formatting and a page turn has consistently led me to the next line of text (although I would prefer that there was a option to retain the last line from the previous page).

Not only is the reader able to use the Agfa fonts you mention but it is able to use all of the custom fonts that are available for use with Font Hack. I also use Font Hack and PalmReader has never 'turned' it off. Hi I.M., Although it is true that Palm Reader doesn't work with FontHack, it doesn't do anything to actively disable the hack you just get poorly paginated books. We recommend that you configure FontHack to be turned off when using the Reader. As several others have noted, Palm Reader Pro does support the same types of third party fonts that you can use with FontHack. If you are using an older greyscale device you may have problems with the contrast. If this is the case you should go to the Screen Preferences in the Reader and switch the display quality to 'Low'.

This puts the Reader into black and white mode and will eliminte most contrast problems. Carl Fristrom Palm Digital Media Group. The big hairy deal is we should have the freedom of choice on reader. There are plenty of eBook readers out there with better features and nicer fonts than Palm's Peanut, pro or not. Their proprietary (closed) format is bad for eBooks in general, and for competition in readers. After all, we don't have to play Sony-brand VHS tapes on a Sony VCR, do we?

We should have 'fair use' of any eBooks we paid for on our own gear - but if you support the Peanut format you are basically supporting a flawed DMCA and limiting your choices as a consumer. Personally, I really like Palm Reader.

I used both the free and the Pro version with my m505 and I now use the free version of Palm Reader on my Pocket PC. In terms of Digital Rights Management (DRM) I.much. prefer Palm Digital Media's method over Microsoft's Reader, which links your reader software to a Passport account. Last time I checked, MS Reader could only be activated twice per Passport, even if you activate the software on the same PC after you reinstall the OS. There is also no way to deactivate the software to 'free up' an activation. If you want more, you either beg MS for more, or just create another Passport account. Palm's method, on the other hand, is to use your name and credit card number.

How many of us are likely to give that info out to others in order to pirate the e-book you've just bought? I certainly wouldn't. The same e-book file can be read on the Palm and Pocket PC versions of Palm Reader. You can even read the book on different Palms at the same time if you wanted to do that for some reason. I am irritated by the license terms of the new Studio software, however. According to that, this software - which you pay $30 for during the introductory period - can only be used to create e-books for your own personal use or for use by family members and the like. What the heck is the point of that?

If you want to distribute a book that you've written to the general public, you have to purchase a different version of the Studio software for over $100. The current version of DropBook does not carry these license restrictions and I think it's absolutely absurd that they've set things up this way for the new software. I've been converting the Star Trek stories of an independent author to Palm Reader format in order to make them available in another format. It's a very time-consuming process to do all the markup by hand in Notepad. I was excited to hear that the new Studio software was now available, but am now concerned that by posting these converted stories publicly, that I'll now be in violation of a license agreement.

I like Palm Reader, I really do - especially on the Pocket PC. (It also reads Palm Doc files on the Pocket PC, which is nice since I have such a large collection from my Palm days.) I like the selection of mainstream authors that are available through Palm Digital Media.

I don't think many of these are available elsewhere, and I feel that's a testament to Palm's DRM method. However, for the average user, wanting to create and distribute content in Palm Reader format, I guess the format leaves a little to be desired. 'There are plenty of eBook readers out there with better features and nicer fonts than Palm's Peanut, pro or not.' PalmReader supports hyperlinks, which few other eBook viewers support. The ones that do are not freeware. One quasi-popular eBook viewer vendor told me that they will 'NEVER' support hyperlinks.

This is the hyperdoc age and viewers without such support are substandard. 'Their proprietary (closed) format is bad for eBooks in general, and for competition in readers.' Please explain how introducing cross-platform, free and pro versions of the viewer, and inexpensive compilers is bad for competition. Has anyone tried this yet?

I am interested but the site does not reveal enough to assure me that it will meet my needs. I have used dropbook and would love to have something more user friendly and intuitive. It sounds like it does everything that Palm Markup Language does without having to know PML but I need to know which formatting it supports and which it does not before plucking down my hard earn dollars. I e-mailed PDM and they say they are looking into releasing the manual for download but have not decided to do so yet. Any input would be welcome. We purchased eBook Studio as a way to help speed up the process - we have a 600-page (yes, I said 600) reference guide we are tweaking now, which we will distributing to our customers for free from a beaming station when they attend our conference this summer. There are some compability issues between the PC and Mac versions that I've been able to work around, but which I am not really pleased with.

There are some major problems saving large PML files on the PC version as well. I have submitted a number of bug reports to Palm Digital Media, and I've gotten satisfactory responses for a few of them (but the software is still seriously buggy). 'Why should we care that they now let someone create an ebook to read on their reader?' Because using PML is a pain. 'We have scores of options like Mobipocket, iSilo, Quickword, Wordsmith, etc.' Like we should ask readers to buy word processors so they can read our books. Like it couldn't use some American competition.

Odd UI - get it off my Palm! ISilo is fantastic, but it requires readers to pay for the viewer application while the compiler is free.!?? From a publishing standpoint this model is bass-ackwards. Adobe's Acrobat Reader had this same problem in the beginning, but quickly fixed it.

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There is a crippled freeware iSilo viewer that doesn't support hyperlinks, so it is of little value in serious Palm E-publishing. 'we don't need to support a $30 'file creator' that cranks out files that only can be read on Peanut Reader.' We do need to support a modern UI, cross-platform IDE that is made and supported by the people who make the OS.

Is any other program available that can read Palm Reader ebooks? Or is the file format available so that a program that uses this format could be written. I downloaded a free book from the Peanut Press site, and used DocReader to convert the.pdb file to text with PML markup.

Then I converted this.txt file to.pdb file using DropBook. Palm Reader for Windows could read both.pdb files. But DocReader could only read the.pdb file downloaded from Peanut Press, not the one I created using DropBook. Has the format changed? What compression method does Palm Reader currently use? Jeffrey Kraus-yao, MCSD.

There appears to be a serious bug in macOS High Sierra that enables the root superuser on a Mac with a blank password and no security check. The bug, discovered by, lets anyone log into an admin account using the username 'root' with no password. This works when attempting to access an administrator's account on an unlocked Mac, and it also provides access at the login screen of a locked Mac. To replicate, follow these steps from any kind of Mac account, admin or guest: 1. Open System Preferences 2.

Choose Users & Groups 3. Click the lock to make changes 4. Type 'root' in the username field 5. Move the mouse to the Password field and click there, but leave it blank 6. Click unlock, and it should allow you full access to add a new administrator account. At the login screen, you can also use the root trick to gain access to a Mac after the feature has been enabled in System Preferences.

At the login screen, click 'Other,' and then enter 'root' again with no password. This allows for admin-level access directly from the locked login screen, with the account able to see everything on the computer. It appears that this bug is present in the current version of macOS High Sierra, 10.13.1, and the macOS 10.13.2 beta that is in testing at the moment.

It's not clear how such a significant bug got past Apple, but it's likely this is something that the company will immediately address. Until the issue is fixed, you can with a password to prevent the bug from working. We have a full how to with a complete rundown on the steps. Update: An Apple spokesperson told MacRumors that a fix is in the works: 'We are working on a software update to address this issue. In the meantime, setting a root password prevents unauthorized access to your Mac.

To enable the Root User and set a password, please follow the instructions here: If a Root User is already enabled, to ensure a blank password is not set, please follow the instructions from the 'Change the root password' section.' Update 2: Apple to address the vulnerability on Wednesday morning. The update can be downloaded on all machines running macOS 10.3.1 using the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.

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Apple says it will automatically push out the update to all users who have not installed it later in the day. In a statement provided to MacRumors, Apple said the company's engineers began working on a fix as soon as the problem was discovered. Apple also apologized for the vulnerability and said its development process is being audited to prevent something similar from happening in the future. Security is a top priority for every Apple product, and regrettably we stumbled with this release of macOS. When our security engineers became aware of the issue Tuesday afternoon, we immediately began working on an update that closes the security hole. This morning, as of 8 a.m., the update is available for download, and starting later today it will be automatically installed on all systems running the latest version (10.13.1) of macOS High Sierra. We greatly regret this error and we apologize to all Mac users, both for releasing with this vulnerability and for the concern it has caused.

Our customers deserve better. We are auditing our development processes to help prevent this from happening again.All users should download the new security update immediately.