Announcing version 0.2

[Robert Schroll]

I'm pleased to announce version 0.2 of PRSAnnots, the PDF annotation
manager for the Sony PRS-T1 ereader (and maybe others). This version
provides new features, including:
- Cropping PDFs before loading them onto the reader.
- Previewing PDFs before loading them onto the reader.
- Better handling of PDF annotations, including an option to fake the
highlight annotations.
Additionally, a number of bugs have been fixed.

Those of you following development on Github [1] can pull to get the new
version. It's also available as a tarball [2] and a Windows installer [3].

[1] https://github.com/rschroll/prsannots
[2] https://github.com/rschroll/prsannots/tarball/version-0.2
[3]
https://github.com/downloads/rschroll/prsannots/prsannots-0.2.linux-x86_64.exe

And, as you can obviously see, there is now a Google Group for
announcements and discussion about PRSAnnots:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/prsannots

There's still work to be done to improve PRSAnnots. Here's some areas
where I could use some help:

- PDFs on microSD cards. I'm told that this doesn't work right now, but
I don't have a microSD card handy to trouble shoot. I expect the card
has its own database, and I hope it's the same format as the one on the
reader. If so, it should be easy to make this work.

- The PRS-T2. I'm not sure if PRSAnnots works on the T2 right now. If
you have one and can test it, please let me know what happens. Even if
it doesn't work, it shouldn't be too hard to fix.

- pdfloc values for highlighted text. Right now, PRSAnnots tries to
find highlighted text by matching the phrase stored in the database.
This is error-prone, and it limits highlights to 200 characters or so.
There's better information stored in the database as "pdfloc"
coordinates, but we haven't reverse engineered them yet. The details:
https://github.com/rschroll/prsannots/issues/4

I hope you find this release useful.

Robert