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clip · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

or someone is developing one?

rest05 · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 12

i need one too, i was trying pixie but i dont really find it useful.

Agoln · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 326 Location: Fort Wayne, IN

search for ebook in the forums.
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sasq · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 16

There are none and I don't think one will turn up in the foreseeable future - the best soloution is probably to convert PDF to JPG and view it as pictures.

(You really should try to learn what is hard to do and what is not. Rendering PDFs is hard.)

clip · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

yes, I guess it's hard.
how about a .chm reader?

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sexdwarf · Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 34

i've got plans to work on a pdf reader once i get my wave library completed (tonight)...
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rest05 · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 12

Arwin · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 426

the format description is available, at least. In theory, it seems to be doable - you could start with just displaying the text and then work your way up. And the good thing is that the fonts are usually embedded, and if the Pixie reader comes with sources, that'd be a great place to start.

I've actually been looking into pdfs a bit before. The simple ones I have no problems with, but the ones I don't quite understand is the ones where the text consist of weird streams. How are they encoded? The documentation doesn't really say much about it - if it had really been just text with layout then I should be able to see the characters as ansi, but unlike the pdf descriptor tags (subject, author, renderware, etc.) I can't decypher them. I don't recognise them as transposed unicode either, so what remains is that I guess that PDFs created by converting PostScript printout doesn't in fact contain characters but it contains graphics descriptors with lines and coordinates of fonts that have been drawn by the computer and are sent as vector graphics data to the printer. This is then converted to a description that the PDF document can read.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

sasq · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 16

First of all you I think the idea if writing a pdf-renderer from scratch is pretty insane, especially if you want it to render somewhat correctly. Rendering text "properly" is very tricky as I've come to realize lately.

chm is just packed html so thats equivalent of wrting a html browser, again not something you do over a weekend.

mirrorsawlljk · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 5

Doesn's openoffice have a PDF rendering engine? That's open source, so it might be something to look at for example code.

liquid8d · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 66

Just to hold anyone over until someone does.. just found this today..

http://pdf2psp.sourceforge.net/

Converts pdfs to images and gives some options for image layout

EDIT: MacOS X only

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clip · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

jpadams · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Los Angeles

you might want to look at this ?
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
its a PDF rendering lib opensourced

sexdwarf · Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 34

Arwin · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 426