A quick question - Implemented
Posted: Sun 7. Apr 2013, 08:35
Hello, this is the first time for me posting on this forum but I'd like to ask a question.
Recently I've been using FFDL to download fanfics from various sites and I was quite content to use the 6.7 version of the downloader because at one point I had downloaded the 7.2 version and the font changed and was almost unreadable it hurt my eyes so badly. I switched back to 6.7 and I've been using it ever since. However with the newest update to 7.3 my downloader stopped rendering the layout of chapters correctly. The stories would be saved without an author or story name and would show up as "-" in my download folder. I updated the FFDL to 7.3 to see if I could fix it and it thankfully did. However I noticed that the font had changed yet again in this new update to something, while not entirely unreadable like the 7.2 version I had updated to but it is still a bit hard on the eyes.
Compare the before and after 6.7 to 7.3 font in this image
http://i.imgur.com/EXzvCve.png
You can see the differences clearly. Not only has the font changed but the spacing between sentences and paragraphs grew larger making it harder to read and enjoy, the spacing between words and letter grew as well and it's just much much harder on the eyes. The font is just too...jagged is all I can explain it as, it's just too sharp for comfortable reading.
Now My question is this. How can I change the font for saved files without having to go through and use a PDF editor to change them? Is there a file I can edit in the FFDL folder or in calibre that will allow me to change the font back to something that doesn't hurt my eyes as much? And if not would it be too much to ask you to use a different font in your updates. I've shown the before and after image to all the people I know in the fanfiction community and they all agreed that the after font isn't the best when you spend a lot of your time reading, which I read a lot and it's starting to become noticeably harder to read these new stories I've saved in this font.
So again, is there any way to change the font, if not on your end then some way to change how it saves the font on my end?
And if you do change the font on your end I could recommend something to add to the options UI. Maybe add the ability to save in a different font, to choose the font you want to save in from a drop down menu in configuration settings of FFDL? It's a nice idea so people can choose a font style that they prefer.
Other than that I'd like to thank you guy/s who made this downloader, it's made things much easier for me to download my favorite fics and read them on the go, thanks for making this thing so easy to use and thanks for just being awesome
Recently I've been using FFDL to download fanfics from various sites and I was quite content to use the 6.7 version of the downloader because at one point I had downloaded the 7.2 version and the font changed and was almost unreadable it hurt my eyes so badly. I switched back to 6.7 and I've been using it ever since. However with the newest update to 7.3 my downloader stopped rendering the layout of chapters correctly. The stories would be saved without an author or story name and would show up as "-" in my download folder. I updated the FFDL to 7.3 to see if I could fix it and it thankfully did. However I noticed that the font had changed yet again in this new update to something, while not entirely unreadable like the 7.2 version I had updated to but it is still a bit hard on the eyes.
Compare the before and after 6.7 to 7.3 font in this image
http://i.imgur.com/EXzvCve.png
You can see the differences clearly. Not only has the font changed but the spacing between sentences and paragraphs grew larger making it harder to read and enjoy, the spacing between words and letter grew as well and it's just much much harder on the eyes. The font is just too...jagged is all I can explain it as, it's just too sharp for comfortable reading.
Now My question is this. How can I change the font for saved files without having to go through and use a PDF editor to change them? Is there a file I can edit in the FFDL folder or in calibre that will allow me to change the font back to something that doesn't hurt my eyes as much? And if not would it be too much to ask you to use a different font in your updates. I've shown the before and after image to all the people I know in the fanfiction community and they all agreed that the after font isn't the best when you spend a lot of your time reading, which I read a lot and it's starting to become noticeably harder to read these new stories I've saved in this font.
So again, is there any way to change the font, if not on your end then some way to change how it saves the font on my end?
And if you do change the font on your end I could recommend something to add to the options UI. Maybe add the ability to save in a different font, to choose the font you want to save in from a drop down menu in configuration settings of FFDL? It's a nice idea so people can choose a font style that they prefer.
Other than that I'd like to thank you guy/s who made this downloader, it's made things much easier for me to download my favorite fics and read them on the go, thanks for making this thing so easy to use and thanks for just being awesome