How About A Decent Pdf Reader And A Flash Player?

[exael]

Hey coders and users out there, anyone knows of (except for !reader for PDFs and something I read about a flash player for linux) something already out or on the way for any of these formats?
I was playing a flash game the other day and I kept wishing i could play it on my GP.
I wish I could code... Gonna start working on learning some programming skills real soon as the laptop comes back from repair!
What d'ya think? What d'ya know? Share your feelings

EDIT: BTW any news on that weird format MMF or whatever that was written about in the news a couple of months ago? Are there really games for that, coz I never heard of it

 

[Blah]

Well, someday I might write a PDF viewer, at a cursory glance it'd be pretty simple. I think a minimal PDF viewer would work just by displaying the inline JPG's and rendering the text on top (Freetype would work for that).

So... PDF format docs + libJPG + Freetype + several hours of coding = Minimal PDF viewer

 

[exael]

Yeah i just mentioned those stuff coz I think they're really missing on the GP.. If you go for it I wish you the best of luck!

 

[Magus 86]

I think a flashplayer would be cool, but I just don't see the point of a PDF viewer or PDF files at all... they do exactly what a bitmap or JPEG will do, but adobe lags my fricken computer(and takes forever to open... no, my computer isn't a slow piece of crap, it's 1.3ghz), and PDF files are always bigger than JPEGs. In some cases, the pdf files only contain text, which makes it even worse... a .txt or .doc would take up like 1 thousandth of the space a .pdf will take up. but hey... if someone really wants one, then go for it.

 

[spaceboygp32x]

I think a flashplayer would be cool, but I just don't see the point of a PDF viewer or PDF files at all... they do exactly what a bitmap or JPEG will do, but adobe lags my fricken computer(and takes forever to open... no, my computer isn't a slow piece of crap, it's 1.3ghz), and PDF files are always bigger than JPEGs. In some cases, the pdf files only contain text, which makes it even worse... a .txt or .doc would take up like 1 thousandth of the space a .pdf will take up. but hey... if someone really wants one, then go for it.

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as a lot of ebooks and uni txts come in pdf format - a PDF viewer would be awesome

sPaCe h34r:

 

[Titcher]

And if what you're trying to view is multiple pages with pictures, then JPGs won't do because you'd have to go through the menus again, oh and, stop complaining.

 

[exael]

Yeah, well you can always convert it to other formats, such as .doc or .rtf or whatever. There are a few programs that to that neatly (it has been discussed here before), however, it would be nice, I guess.