FAKKU Reader Help, Feedback and Bug Report Thread

Welcome! This is the help, feedback and bug report thread for FAKKU Reader.

FAKKU Reader has been built with both desktop and mobile platforms in mind, and aims to provide a native-like experience on both of these. This means that you will need a decent enough browser to run it - latest Chrome, Firefox and IE11/IE10 should do on the desktop, Chrome should serve you well on both Android (4+) and iOS (7+).

Now, you'll probably want to know how it works. Read on to learn about the User Interface, Controls, and User Settings.

User Interface


FAKKU Reader running on a desktop browser


FAKKU Reader in two-page mode on desktop


FAKKU Reader running on a tablet browser

FAKKU Reader has been built with the idea of an immersive fullscreen experience (we really like CDisplay here at FAKKU, and it has been a huge source of inspiration for the new reader), which is why it has a rather minimal user interface consisting primarily of a top that automatically hides itself. In top right you have three buttons: The Go To Index button paired with the page numbers, the Settings button for customizing the reader to your liking, and finally the Enter/Exit Fullscreen button, which I highly recommend using!

Index Mode

Depending on what you're reading, the Index Mode can either give you a Thumbnail View:



Or a Chapter View:



(However, if neither thumbnails nor chapters are available, index mode will be disabled and won't be accessible.)

Controls

The reader can be controlled with a wide variety of methods via keyboard, mouse and touch. The keyboard & mouse controls have been influenced a lot by CDisplay, so if you've used it before, you will likely find the controls quite familiar. Here is the breakdown of the available controls:

Keyboard

• Up / Down, W / S: Scroll up / Scroll down

• Left / Right, A / D: Scroll left / Scroll right / At page edges: Previous Page / Next Page (or vice versa if using Right to Left UI controls)

• Page Up / Page Down: Previous Page / Next Page

• Home / End: Previous Chapter / Next Chapter

• Q / E: Previous Chapter / Next Chapter (or vice versa if using Right to Left UI controls)

• Space: Next Page

• Enter: Show / Hide UI

• F: Enter / Exit Fullscreen Mode

• C: Enter / Exit Free Scroll Mode

Mouse

• Left Click / Right Click: Next Page / Previous Page

• Scroll Wheel Up / Down: Scroll up / down, Previous / Next Page (when at top or bottom with Scroll Wheel Page Change enabled)

• Ctrl + Scroll Wheel Up / Down: Zoom In / Out

• Scroll Wheel Press / Middle Click: Enter / Exit Free Scroll Mode

• Move cursor near top: Show UI

What's this Free Scroll Mode?

Free Scroll Mode allows you to use mouse movement to scroll the page. In this mode left & right click work as usual, while scroll wheel movement allows you to zoom in / out. You can toggle this mode with either the C key on the keyboard or by pressing the scroll wheel / middle click on your mouse.

Touch

• Swipe Left / Right: Previous Page / Next Page (or vice versa if using Right to Left UI controls)

• Tap: Show / Hide UI

• Double Tap: Zoom In / Out

• Pinch In / Out: Zoom In / Out

User Settings

Clicking the Settings button (the gear icon) opens the User Settings menu, which allows you to customize reader behavior to your liking. Slightly different settings can be available depending on whether you're on desktop or using mobile touch devices:



Your settings are unique to each of your devices and browsers, so you can have different settings for each of them. As for what the available settings mean:

UI Control Direction

Determines how directional page change commands work. As you might know, most content on FAKKU is read right to left, so with this you can also make for example the arrow keys work so that left goes forward and right goes back, etc. The available options are Left to Right, Right to Left or Use Content Direction - the last one simply means that the controls will be left to right for content that is read left to right, and right to left for content that is read right to left.

You can also change this setting on the fly on the first page of everything by moving into either direction, and the reader will follow suit. Try it out!

Background Color

Simply determines the color of the background behind the pages. The default setting, Automatic, will set this background color according to the colors in the actual page(s) being displayed. If you'd prefer the color not to change, you can always choose from any of the static options: Black, Dark, Gray, Light, or White.

Page Display Mode

Determines how pages are displayed. If you like to view two pages side by side, then Two Pages When Possible is the option you're looking for. By default the reader uses Singles With Spreads, which displays one page at a time unless the action spans across two pages, like so:



Besides there, there is also the option for Single Pages Only, which does exactly what it says on the tin - as such, the above kind of two page spreads will be shown as two separate single pages.

Page Scaling

This setting determines how pages are scaled for display. Defaults to Original Size, which will display pages at their full resolution (usually 1360x1920). Besides this, the reader offers options for Fit Width, Fit Height and Set Height, which should be pretty self-explanatory. The subsetting Target Height will be available for the last one, allowing you to set a specific size for pages to be displayed at.

Fit to Width if Overwidth

Enabled by default and does exactly what it says - it scales the image down to fit width if it would be too big otherwise. Very useful when using the Original Size or Fit Height Page Scaling options! The subsetting But Not When Viewing Two Pages will suppress this behavior when the reader is displaying two pages at a time, and is enabled by default as well.

Page Scaling Method

Displaying black & white pages in smaller sizes can result in ugly patterns emerging in gray areas. For that reason, the reader by default uses a Smooth resizing method when downscaling images to reduce the amount of said patterning. Unfortunately, this method also makes the pages look somewhat blurrier, so you can also choose a Fast scaling option if you prefer a sharper image and don't mind the patterning all that much. This faster method is also the only one available on mobile devices due to performance reasons. Here is an example comparison between the two options.

Set Current Zoom Level as Default

If you've used zooming on a page, you can use this button to set your current zoom level as the default page scaling. This will change the page scaling method to Set Height with the appropriate Target Height set to your current zoom level.

Smooth Scrolling

Makes scrolling smooth. Simple and nice, enabled by default.

Mouse Dragging Speed

One of the ways to scroll the pages in the reader is by click-dragging them with the mouse. This setting controls the speed of said dragging. Default 1.0, with a range of 0.50-2.00.

Mouse Sensitivity

This setting controls the speed of scrolling when moving the mouse in Free Scroll Mode. Default 1.50, with a range of 0.50-2.50.

Scroll Wheel Sensitivity

Controls the scroll speed of both mouse scroll wheels as well as (two-finger) touchpad scrolling on laptops. Default 1.25, with a range of 0.50-2.50.

Scroll Wheel Page Change

You can use the scroll wheel (or touchpad scrolling) to change pages by scrolling at the top and bottom of images, which enables you to navigate a book with the mouse wheel alone. However, if you don't like this behavior, you can disable it by changing this setting from the default Enabled to Disabled.

Version Information

At the bottom of the Settings menu you can see version information on the reader and the device you're currently using. When reporting issues it is highly recommended that you copy and paste this string into your report.

We want your feedback

Due to the wide range of devices that the reader can potentially run on, we can't possibly test them all internally - as such, bugs can appear from time to time. If you run into any, you should report them in this thread. Make sure to include the device and browser you're using with any bug reports, as well as much details as you can think about the situation. Most importantly, if you can consistently replicate the issue, please include the information how to do this.

We're also interested in general feedback on the reader - tell us what you like and don't like about it! Feature requests also welcome.

Looks very nice, although for some reason scrolling with the mouse seems slower than normal.

Some things I like about this reader are the different zoom in features and the simplicity of the controls.

Things that I like about the current Fakku reader for the website are the ability to open up different pages in different windows and tabs, and the ability to hop to any specific page instead of chapter hopping.

One big gripe that I had was that when I scroll sometime I would hit the bottom of the page and it would hop over to the next page when I wanted to see the bottom of the page. Something like being able to lock the page that you are on so it doesn't scroll to the next page when you scroll down would be nice.

Overall though I am liking the new reader.

This was a bit of a problem, yes. Doesn't happen with keyboard scrolling, though, so you could use that.


Also, download links name themselves "[Homunculus].htm" by default and due to this offer opening with the browser, you might want to look into that as well.

The eventual introduction of a thumbnail mode should solve this.



If the page is taller than your window's height, there is a buffer period when scrolling at the top & bottom before it actually changes the page. This is an intended feature, though I guess there could be an option to turn it off in the future.



You can't directly download images from the reader. If you want to download pages, you should use the book's download options instead.



Was your mouse cursor near the top or bottom? As long as the mouse cursor is outside the "show UI" zones, the UI should automatically hide and stay hidden. There does seem to be a slight issue where the UI will stay visible if the cursor is still in the show zones and you scroll the page via other means, you should be able to expect a fix for this later.

Suggestion: Add double page view.

A majority of the time I saw this buffer, but sometimes there was no buffer and it would scroll to the next page if I kept scrolling down on my mouse. With the keyboard its no problem though, scrolling down won't cause problems with accident page turning.

Or it could be my cluster brain, I'll keep testing the scrolling.

That's what I did. The HQ zip version I downloaded also tells me (redownloaded again to check as well) that the archive is corrupted, although it does unzip everything except the first image (000).

This is something I want to do eventually, though it'll be further down the line, because it's going to be pretty big workload and there are other big features that I want to implement first.



The buffer period is always there if the displayed page height is taller than your window, you might just be scrolling too fast. If your mouse wheel has the ability to spin freely, I recommend using normal step spinning instead.



The downloads should hopefully be working properly soon enough. This is not a reader issue, though.

me too, and I tried repair achieve but it doesn't work

Yeah changed mouses and the buffer is definitely there and noticable. I was using a logitech mouse that had a mouse wheel which could spin freely so that probably was the problem.

Will continue to test my logitech mouse and see if there are any issues with the reader.... for science.....

Downloads should be working know, the problem was related to the earlier issue.

The reader works perfect, my pc it's a normal laptop so no problem expected. I like it's simplicity and options, automatic background color was nice. And I agree with adding some page/chapter menu to go directly to the one you want to read.

[color=#EB9100]The new reader is really good, scroll up and down to view the beautiful original sized pages, left click to go forward, right click to go back. WASD works, arrow keys work, its all so good.[/color]

BUGS FOUND:

• While in Chrome, I noticed the bottom of each page was cut off by at least 10 pixels, maybe more. Some dialogue is cut off. Pressing F11 to go into full screen mode in Chrome shows the full page.
  [*]Full Screen button on the reader doesn't seem to work. It is grayed out both in and out of Chromes full screen mode.

SUGGESTIONS:

• When holding S or the down arrow key, you do not jump to the next page. This is not the case with the mouse wheel. Could page turning be turned off for the mouse wheel as you can simply click to get to the next page.
  [*]Already suggested, but double pages would be nice. To add to double pages, could there be some form of smart page placement? Some suggestions:
  
  • Cover page will never be a double-page.
    [*]Over sized pinup pages will never be double-pages
    [*]the online reader will always be able to jump into the correct double-page (as if you were reading a book) regardless of the previous page number. If a page shares a page before it where the particular page was shown as a single page due to any of the above rules, then the page will show either just a single page before going into double-pages, or will show partial/full of the previous page as well, starting the double-page sequence.
  
  [*]Already suggested, but thumbnails.
  [*]Bookmark a page to automatically start where you left off.
  

[color=#EB9100]Haven't quite finished all of Renai Sample, but I am loving the book and this reader. Great job Fakku, I can not wait for the next two books![/color]

So how does automatic coloring take color into effect? Was really curious while testing the reader.

Does it take the most prominent color of the current page? For example I saw the reader take a shade of pink that closely matches the dress of the girl on the first page, while it took a hue of purple on the 4th page, and multiple colors on the chapter "Rule of Bikini"

Particularly curious because of pages that have multiple prominent shades of color such as the cover page in which the blue also stands out a lot.

The way the arrows change functions when changing the UI controls is a bit confusing. Also the fact that the page you're viewing stays the same after changing the setting. Maybe have the page reload after changing the setting?

I'm getting the same thing And everytime i try to DL the zip files it sends me to the fakku home page.