Revision History

What's new in Book Wizard Reader

Version 1.2.0.582, January 2, 2007

• Release candidate without AMR WB Plus support.

Version 1.2.0.268, September 22, 2006

• 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

Version 1.2, June 2006

• 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.

Version 1.0.8, May 2005

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

  Version 1.0.7, April 2005

• 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.

  Version 1.0.6, September 2004

• 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

  Version 1.0.5, August 2004

• 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.

Version 1.0.4, June 20, 2004

• Fixes a missing file problem with the previous release.

Version 1.0.3, June 10, 2004

• 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.

Version 1.0.2 June 7, 2004

• Speeds up the loading of text-only DTB's such as those from Bookshare.

Version 1.0.1, May 24, 2004

• 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.