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PDF reader: any news? (Fuze v2)

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saratoga:

--- Quote from: Datman on February 15, 2011, 11:47:53 AM ---I'd like to read the Rockbox manual in the player

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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)

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