CSpotRun Features
- Selectable Fonts
Click the font button to change the font used to view the document.
- Justification
- Selectable Line Spacing
Click the linespacing buttons to change the line spacing used to
view the document. The largest spacing is the standard line spacing.
Smaller spacings let you fit a few more lines on the page.
- Per-Document Preferences
- Font and line spacing preferences are saved seperately for each
document. When you open a document for the first time, it gets the
default settings. To save the current document's settings as the default
settings, select the "Make Settings Default" option.
- Landscape Mode
I know that the screen is square! This makes reading
long documents more comfortable
for some users, especially those with smaller hands. You can also reverse the
behavior of the page up and page down when the text is sideways.
- Unlimited number of documents
- The number of documents is limited by available memory, of course.
But it is not arbitrarily imposed by CSpotRun as in some readers.
- Jump to
Positions to jump to are in 10% increments. This is quicker
than entering the exact percentage.
- Full Screen View
- The on-screen controls can be hidden by choosing "Toggle Controls" from the
"Options" menu. (Even better, use menu shortcut T.)
- Configurable User Interface
- Choose "Controls..." from the "Options" menu. From this window, the user can
choose exactly which controls appear on the screen. Note that it will not allow
you to remove all controls from the screen. To do this use the "Toggle Controls"
menu item. For convenience, each on-screen control has a corresponding menu item
in the "Controls" menu. Use these menu items if the control you need is currently
hidden.
- Search
Searches for text in the current document.
- Auto Scroll
Auto Scroll allows you to read long documents without constantly hitting the
page down button. Auto scroll can be configure to scroll one line at a time or
one pixel at a time.
The speed can be set in the Preferences window. The speed can also be adjusted
while auto scrolling using the page up/down buttons.
- Bookmarks
Bookmarks let you quickly jump to other locations in the document.
- Justification
Click the "J" button to justify the text. Click the "L" button to
left-align the text.
- Hyphenation
- Choose "Hyphenation" from the View menu to toggle hyphenation.
This is most effective when justification is turned on. Hyphenation
will only work if you have installed the hyphenation database for your
language. (If a hyphenation database is available for you language,
it will be included in .zip file which you downloaded.)
- The goofy name
-
It's sort of a pun. "See Spot Run" was a
phrase from a beginning simple reading book from grade school. CSpotRun is a
simple DOC reader. Get it? Thanks to those of you who have suggested alternate
names. But, I think "CSpotRun" is going to stick. Plus it allows me to use the
coolest icon ever.
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