GP32 Palm Doc (PDB) Viewer

[M^4]

I have a lot of books in PDB format and I know I could convert them to text and read them using Windups' KReader but I thought it would be cool to write my own Palm Document viewer. Also, some PDBs have built-in chapter/bookmark points.

Right now I am just working on the file requester, etc. In the meantime I was looking for some decent information on the PDB format. I found the Palm OS site but it did not seem very clear on some things. I was wondering if anyone else is working on a PDB viewer (or started but never finished) or if there are any PDB experts out there that could give me some pointers.

Thanks in advance!

 

[zboy9]

That sounds cool. I found this site: OmniFormat. It converts different file types. Haven't tried it myself, but it sounds too good to be true. What do ya think?

 

[Makenai]

At the very least, here are a couple of structs: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/pilot/pdb.txt Once you have these I guess all that's left is to get an actual .PDB ebook and check how it's broken up along the records for chapters etc.

 

[M^4]

At the very least, here are a couple of structs

Yeah I am looking at that (well, the updated version on PalmOS site). Was just hoping someone had some free code i code look/modify. You know how lazy programmers are! -_-

 

[SatanClaus]

A PDF Viewer would be better

 

[nerd of nerds]

There is always xpdf. but i looked at the source and it needs alegro.h (which was ported to gp but never released :angry: ) i think a pdf viewer would be MUCH better than plain text

 

[M^4]

There is always xpdf. but i looked at the source and it needs alegro.h (which was ported to gp but never released :angry: ) i think a pdf viewer would be MUCH better than plain text

I agree a PDF viewer will probably have more usage but PDB stuff can also be databases and such so it would expand to other things. And I have lots of PDB things since I had a PDA.

I will look at xpdf and this alegro stuff but I am not an expert C coder so this is like asking for a miracle to happen.