PDF reader: any news? (Fuze v2)

[Datman]

Does anyone have any news about the PDF reader?

[saratoga]

I don't think anyone is ever going to port one to the Fuze V2 if thats what you're asking. 

[Datman]

Are you saying it's available for other devices?

[saratoga]

Are you saying it's available for other devices?

Not in rockbox.

[Datman]

I'd like to read the Rockbox manual in the player

[saratoga]

I'd like to read the Rockbox manual in the player

You have the raw latex data, maybe its easiest to convert the data into some format simpler then pdf, then write a plugin to view that.

[Chronon]

There's latex2rtf, but I don't know how well it works.
http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/latex2rtf.html

There are also tools to convert PDF to RTF:
http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-rtf.htm

So, if someone has the desire, it seems that an RTF viewer could be a useful thing.

[nls]

you can generate a plain text version of the manual (make manual-txt) that can be viewed with the viewer plugin.
pdf viewer has been requested many times and noone has, afaik, shown any interest in porting one.

[gbl08ma]

To not talk about the difficulty of use of a PDF viewer on smaller-screen Rockbox targets... like the Fuze v2!?

IMO viewing PDFs won't be too difficult on a bigger resolution device with touchscreen, like Cowon D2, but for devices with traditional keyboard and scrollwheel it would be a, at least, somewhat difficult task to read a single A4-size page... now imagine a bigger document (like the Rockbox Manual)...

(I know by experience what is viewing a PDF on embedded devices as I have contact with several touchscreen Windows Mobile mobile phones and PocketPCs that have a PDF viewer, and I can tell you that these devices have a bigger screen than the Cowon one)