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PDF Viewer?
soap:
Porting/creating a project like Plucker http://www.plkr.org/ would be more reasonable. Desktop side parsing and conversion with only the viewing side of the equation done player side.
man:
hmm... and what about porting a text-base open-source browser like ELinks (http://www.elinks.cz) to Rockbox?
Genre9mp3:
ELinks seems to be a very nice and interesting project overall but again... it doesn't worth to port such a thing in Rockbox! IMO, even on the biggest screens (Gigabeat/iPod Video) it would be a pain to read html pages. Besides, what html files would someone carry with him/her? The only useful thing I can think of is the html manual. But even on this, a txt file of that would be equally good.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: man on January 31, 2007, 04:39:30 PM ---hmm... and what about porting a text-base open-source browser like ELinks (http://www.elinks.cz) to Rockbox?
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The problem you'll find with most of these projects that are designed for actual computers, and not handheld devices, is that they will make extensive use of malloc() calls all the way through them (or equivalents). Rockbox has no support for such a function, and not only are there no plans to make one, there are very vocal people wielding pitchforks that hunt down and burn people that suggest we ought to include one.
Even if those vocal people could be silenced, and convinced not to hurt people that suggested such a thing - you're then talking about two lots of things which need to happen. Firstly, the system programmers, the ones who actually write rockbox would have to work out how to properly implement malloc() in rockbox. This is not a trivial problem to solve on hardware which mostly doesn't include an MMU. Secondly, the application programmers, the hypothetical people who are going to do the port, are going to have to sit down and work out how to make elinks work properly on such a tiny target.
In short - I think hell will freeze over long before you see a port of elinks to rockbox. But I'm willing to be proved wrong.
nbigaouette:
--- Quote from: soap on January 31, 2007, 01:18:27 PM ---Porting/creating a project like Plucker http://www.plkr.org/ would be more reasonable. Desktop side parsing and conversion with only the viewing side of the equation done player side.
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I use Plucker on my Palm Zire 21 (1 bit color depth, small screen) and it is really great. Even on that kind of screen the rendering is really good.
--- Quote from: GodEater on February 01, 2007, 03:25:38 AM ---The problem you'll find with most of these projects that are designed for actual computers, and not handheld devices [...]
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Plucker was designed for handheld devices. I don't know if it uses mallocs but it wasn't designed for computers. Hence it is a good candidate for document viewer on RockBox.
I think it could be quite interesting to see Plucker on rockbox. Each morning I was downloading my news and with plucker I read it in the metro.
Unfortunatly I never managed to view pdf on the palm. Is it possible to convert a pdf to a plucker file?
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