PDF reader

[liquidcross]

That's the one app I think I'd want above all else.

 

[JDUK]

You know what. I was thinking this exact thing in the car on the way to uni this morning. That it would be good to have an online GP32 mag inPDF format that we could just download and read on the GP.

 

[r0lf]

both of you get my vote....

i would love a html viewer
a pdf viewer

or at least an html viewer avant go style...

 

[Shrike]

ah yes but is there an open source pdf viewer or html viewer?

 

[Sonic-NKT]

xpdf for linux is opensource
as well as many browser i think (Firebird, Mozilla...)

 

[Shrike]

then all we need is a psycho coder who wouldn't mind porting it

 

[Axeman]

Would be good...


Good luck to anyone willing to attept it...

 

[rcx21000]

How long would it take to load??? My comp 866MhZ takes about 4secs to load and 1sec for each page I goto, and if a page is loaded, it wouldn't be able to quickly load it again, because all the RAM would be filled with what the GP was currently viewing (I wouln't like ~30secs to load and ~10secs to loade each page). I think that HTML would be more practical (sp?), faster load and PDF can be converted pretty easily with some programs (I think?)

 

[Shrike]

yeh html reader would be a lot better, but! it'd take more space on a smc if you were using images

 

[Sonic-NKT]

hmm dont think it would load long for normal 5MB PDF... sure it takes long when you try to open one wich is bigger than 10MB (does this work on GP32? are PDF readed whole in the ram), i have a mac 68k here and with Acrobat Reader 3 and it works ok... And the gp32 is faster i think

 

[Shrike]

heh, all it would have to do is load one page unload it then load the next, there would be loading time but when don't you get loading time

 

[rcx21000]

heh, all it would have to do is load one page unload it then load the next, there would be loading time but when don't you get loading time

but when you don't get loading time what?? IMHO HTML is better, no conversions for websites needed, and PDF conversion is easy

 

[Shrike]

hey you get loading time on everything...maybe only a second but its still loading time

 

[Sonic-NKT]

both would be great... but if html is easier than this... we only need a small HTML viewer, not a real browser would be too big and full of thing we dont need...

 

[Intruder]

It surely possible to make a PDF viewer on our beloved GP32, hey I have use the version that Adobe released for PalmOS and I have run it on my Visor Platinum (which use a Motorola Dragonball 680x0 at 33mhz ;-)). So i am sure with an ARM9 at 133mhz it should be quite enough ;-).

 

[Tobriand]

There's no doubt that its possible (in my mind, at least), but smone's still got to sit down and code the thing...