Revision History

What's new in Book Wizard Reader

Adds a fall-back if the media type is absent from audio info. This prevents the invalid file error in the bookshelf.
Adds AMR and AMR wideband plus decoding capabilities. (This is for unprotected books only.)
Fixes a bug that caused a crash when BWR was unable to retrieve preview information for Book Port Transfer.
Fixes a bug that caused an error saving and retrieving keyring files. Users who update to this version may have to reinstall their RFBD authorization keys.
Improves error messages to provide more precise information about the file that caused an error.

Fixes an issue that caused the Alt-letter hot keys to fail in the text and braille views.
Fixes errors related to saving and restoring the view positions.
Status line now shows the class and ID for the current nav point, current page, and the SMIL Ref.
Fixes the Braille view so that images are shown.
Fixes navigation in DAISY/NISO 2005 books.
Fixes path for images in some NIMAS files that prevented images from appearing.
Fixes an issue with the dublin core (dc) namespace in Bookshare periodicals.

Fixes problems with namespaces when loading NIMAS files that caused text not to be displayed.

Fixes a bug that caused a "blank" book to be opened when a special book CD such as the Verbal View series was presented. This also caused the license prompt and open-file dialog to come up.

Fixes an error loading XML documents encoded as "ISO-8859-1" (latin-1). This was causing some Spanish characters such as accents to be dropped.
Adds the "Go to time" command available from the Audio menu or by using Ctrl+Shift+G. Allows the time to be entered in a variety of formats including relative time (+ or -).
Fixes errors in sending lattin-1 characters, such as used in Spanish, to the speech synthesizer. Text is now both displayed and spoken correctly in Spanish

Fixes handling of blank nav point text labels. The text level falls back to the time in minutes.
Fixes a bug that caused the first section of a book to be left out when sending to the Bookport.
Improves efficiency of loading the nav map.
Goes back to loading the textual content in segments for improved performance using large files.
Updates the toolbar with new graphics.
Adds the ability to send books with various combinations of MP3 and RIFFWAVE formats to the Bookport.
Handles skipped pages in audio DTB's sent to the Bookport.
Fixes a bug in the number-keynavigation of some books.
Fixes bugs related to page numbers when books are sent to the Book Port
BWR now opens and plays a "dtbook" xml file or a "NIMAS" file as a book.
Provides the Bookport (tm) transfer software with up to 6 levels of navigation.
Fixes a problem with page numbering and "Goto Page".
Fixes incorrect parsing of clip times when times are expressed in fractions less than 1 ms.
Fixes problems recognizing and playing books from "www.audiobookstand.com" due to a missing class attribute on the title node of the NCC.
Uses a new method for navigating in a book that is faster and more efficient. This improves performance for all books especially books with the full text included.
Corrects a problem that caused optional content consisting of more than one segment to be read even when turned off.
Corrects errors in the loading and playing of some DAISY 2.02 books caused by unconventional markup in the navigation control.

Corrects a problem, recently introduced, that causes page numbers to be incorrectly interpreted in Book Port.

Adds the Lists item to the Navigation menu to let you navigate directly to optional areas in a book. (Such lists might include lists of note references.)
Adds the Optional Content dialog to the Audio menu to let you control announcement of optional audio such as page numbers, notes, etc.
Adds the Select Text option to the View menu.

Fixes problems with XML images not being displayed by the Internet Explorer browser.
Respects all user and producer stylesheets.
Further improves load time and performance for large text books.
Fixes a problem that caused some book files to be left after deleting a book from the bookshelf.
Adds additional features to support multiple section levels in Book Port

Adds the Delete Book feature to the bookshelf.
Adds the Find Text command to the Navigation menu.
Adds accessible character text navigation in the Text view.
Adds support for "mouse click" navigation in the text view of a full-text DTB
Supports the use of style sheets for DTBs.
Generates pseudo GUIDs for invalid DAISY 2.x books that do not have a GUID.
Updates the Braille view to take advantage of new speed and functionality enhancements.
Relaxes the way Daisy 2.x books get interpreted, so more invalid books should work properly.
Adds protected Z39-862002 support.
Views are now automatically reopened based on which views were open when the last book was closed and the content of the book being loaded.

Fixes a navigation problem specifically related to Book Share books and periodicals.
Fixes a problem starting playback when certain books are loaded and need to return to a last-mark position.

Fixes missing last page in navigation list sent to book Port for audio DAISY books.
Adds a 100 MS tolerance for books with clip times that exceed the end of the audio file.