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PigMaster:
Hello all.
No, I'm NOT making a feature request (I know where they go, don't worry...), just wondering why there doesn't seem to be any developer interest in the idea of a PDF viewer.

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/2613

I think it would be a great idea. If PDFs would be too hard to render or a view too hard to code, would there be any interest in a HTML viewer? (I might just add that to the feature request)

Cheers.

Genre9mp3:

--- Quote from: PigMaster on January 29, 2007, 11:16:04 PM ---... PDFs would be too hard to render or a view too hard to code ...
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You answered your question yourself!

Also about HTML, it maybe easier code-wise to get implemented compared to PDF but again, there would be many obstacles and problems to overcome (how to display pictures, different fonts etc.) that wouldn't worth the result of viewing html pages on such small screens. Besides, there are more interesting things for the developers to work on.

GodEater:
There are already feature requests for the HTML viewer - and I think most of them get closed with a reason something like "hahahaha - no."

HTML would be a complete nightmare to try and parse, let alone display on a hand held target.

Have you ever asked yourself why pocket interet explorer on WinCE devices sucks so much ?

Yotto:

--- Quote from: GodEater on January 30, 2007, 11:13:29 AM ---Have you ever asked yourself why pocket interet explorer on WinCE devices sucks so much ?

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One thing I have never ever asked myself is why Internet Explorer on WinCE sucks so much.

On topic, most PDFs need at *least* an 800x600 screen to render well, and a lot of them aren't text, but compressed images of the pages.  The idea of scrolling back and forth for *every line* of text I'm reading makes me shudder.

MaximillionUnlimited:
Even though PDF viewer sounds cool im gona have to go with the guy above me to complicated even if they could make it view it. If they found some way of viewing it like 1 page at a time and the zoom feature combinded with a scroll then maybe there would be a chance. But that would be a pain of code.

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