Pocket PC Viewer, Vade Mecum, version 0.2 Alpha

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Vade Mecum, the Pocket PC plucker document viewer, is now at vesion 0.25~ (but still alpha, since not all features have been implemented yet). This would have been out sooner, but Harry Potter happened...

NOTE: If you have version 0.1 installed, you MUST remove ALL of the metadata files, the metadata.vmd file, and the vade-mecum.dat file before installing this version. Failure to do so may cause your device to freeze up when you try to open Vade Mecum. Sorry about this; from here on out, such drastic measures should not be necessary when installing a new version.

This version fixes several bugs and adds a few new features:

• Added history support. You can now go back to previously viewed pages, and then forward again (just as in a web browser). There is currently a limit of 10 items in the history... at some point, this limit will be customizable.
• You can now sort the library list by tapping the column header for the column you want to sort on (title or file size).
• The fullscreen setting is now persistent.
• There are now options on the Reader settings tab for enabling or disabling the "auto link up" and "auto link down" features (ie, scrolling up at the top of a page automatically follows the first link on the page, and scrolling down at the bottom of a page automatically follows the last link on the page).
• Documents without a "title" attribute now correctly display an alternate title.
• Added a minimum special interparagraph space (for when a paragraph or its prior paragraph is right- or center-aligned, or when the left margin changes between paragraphs). This value is not currently user-modifiable, but makes things look much prettier when using a book-like format setting (see screenshots).
• Fixed percentage report when reopening a previously opened page
• Fixed minimum special interparagraph space computation to only happen once per paragraph
• Fixed a bug that caused the program to crash while paginating if the page had 5 or more images on it.
• File suffixes on metadata files are now being added correctly.

Head on over to http://vade-mecum.sf.net to pick it up. Let me know what you think, if you use it!