e-paper
7 min
e papers can be displayed on the web through the presenter, which allows reading the pdf in browser and experience page flipping behavior as in a real magazine or newspaper for better reading, you may activate an additional read mode, which is based on html and can be accessed through the presenter in apps, the presenter is a native feature both views on these contents are available on web and app, yet are implemented differently also, governed by the platform, the feature set varies functionality clicking on the pdf page leads to the article in the read mode view the read mode contains the text of the article and the images the following functions on the top bar of the read mode article are available close the close button (x) is placed on the right side of the top bar, clicking the buttons leads back to pdf, the pdf opens on the same page, where this article is placed change of the font size clicking on the font size icon, the font size can be adapted a small pop up appears the font size can be adapted in five steps using the bar in the pop up the font size chosen remains for all articles in the read mode until it is changed again by the user night mode clicking the night mode icon, the colors of the background and of the text are inverted to make reading at the night more comfortable clicking on the icon again inverts the colors back to the day mode the night mode remains active until it is manually deactivated by the user prerequisite if a pdf issue has been processed using the xml workflow for a read mode, you also have the option to activate an audio read aloud mode in this way, readers can have the complete issue or individual articles read out to them for this feature, purple ds uses the latest language algorithms from amazon polly https //docs aws amazon com/de de/polly/latest/dg/what is html prerequisites xml based read mode set up amazon aws account functionality read mode with text to speech if a pdf issue has been processed using the xml workflow for a read mode, you also have the option to activate a text to speech (tts) engine in this way, readers can have the complete issue or individual articles read out to them for this feature, purple ds uses the latest language algorithms from amazon polly https //docs aws amazon com/de de/polly/latest/dg/what is html prerequisites xml based read mode set up amazon aws account top bar icons start/stop tts clicking on the headphones icons tts function starts, the speaker begins to read the article the word currently reading is marked after the article is read out until the end, an overlay opens automatically, where the user can press play to hear the next article if the user does not do anything, the next article starts after a few seconds clicking on the head phones again deactivates the tts function the icon can be customized change of the speaker two variants here clicking on the icon for speaker change immediately changes the voice clicking on the icon for speaker change opens a small pop up where the user can change the voice tts player when tts function is active, tts player is shown the reading can be paused with the pause button, and played again with the play button the user can jump to the next or last article the user can open the settings and change the speed of reading between 5 steps the user can jump 10 seconds forward or back the user can use the slider of the player to forward back or forth