Display blanking & scroll jankiness in a book

Hi! I've been a daily user of Logos for 10 years now, and I encountered this unnerving issue for the first time.

In God and Money: Chapter One , only the leading part of the chapter is shown. If I scroll, everything becomes blank. If I scroll more, eventually the content appears (with a table whose rich content display might be somehow in cause).

See what I experiment: https://share.cleanshot.com/0x4Bx4PmLxfNV3pW0J4k

I reproduce the issue on my M2 Macbook Air with Logos 35, but not on the iPhone. I might try installing Logos on the iPad to read this book more comfortably, then, while you look into fixing the issue. Thanks!

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Daniel Jomphe

BTW the Logos web app also experiments this issue in some possibly worse form, as you can probably reproduce by following my first link above.

JT (alabama24)

If I scroll more, eventually the content appears (with a table whose rich content display might be somehow in cause).

I can't confirm the issue because I don't own the resource. However, the video was disturbing!

This is a FLEB title but Logos may be able to reprocess the file to get better results.

LINK: https://www.logos.com/product/62162/god-and-money-how-we-discovered-true-riches-at-harvard-business-school

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310373#Comment_1310373

In the meantime...

Have you tried sending the tab to a floating window and adjusting the width of the panel?

Daniel Jomphe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310374#Comment_1310374

Have you tried [...] adjusting the width of the panel?

Weird! Adjusting panel width (wider OR narrower) and/or font size sometimes puts it in a "correct" ratio or setting that makes it display and scroll fine.

Thinking about it, I realize it's not the first time I've had to fix a book thusly! Thanks for the help, JT!

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310589#Comment_1310589

Thinking about it, I realize it's not the first time I've had to fix a book thusly! Thanks for the help, JT!

Correct me if I misremember but hasn't this been found to be a side effect of not using the default scales for displaying the screen?

Any chance this may be a place to look Daniel?

Daniel Jomphe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310630#Comment_1310630

not using the default scales for displaying the screen?

Oh yes, I started again playing with those, to save real screen estate.

Looks like I should set them back to 100%. Thanks Mike for chiming in!

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310684#Comment_1310684

Looks like I should set them back to 100%. Thanks Mike for chiming in!

Great! Now I have evidence for the current wife that my memory isn't playing up. [:D]

Daniel Jomphe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310684#Comment_1310684

not using the default scales for displaying the screen?

Now having set the scales back to 100%, things are simpler:

as long as the panel is wide enough to display the table, things work fine.
as soon as I resize it narrower than the table, I get all the mentioned issues.

So, for some reason, they chose not to allow reflowing of text inside tables in this book (tables can't shrink their width by squeezing text). I suppose there are some more complex ones later in this book, with more columns which wouldn't support any kind of reflowing.

So my situation is simpler now, yes, but since I have less control over the scaling of things, I find the "wide corridor" required for this book to require too much screen real estate to my liking. My "bible corridor" is a bit too squeezed.

Oh well, aren't all these imperfections in life here to remind us to turn our hope towards Christ, and focus on our contentement in God's grace? [:)]

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310734#Comment_1310734

I find the "wide corridor" required for this book to require too much screen real estate to my liking.

Not a solution but maybe a workaround.

In your case I imagine I would put this, recalcitrant, resource in a floating panel and stick it on an extra workspace or just bring it to the front when I actually need it.