[maemo-developers] Fast PDF library

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 05:09:49 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
> Should I just abandon the idea of straight PDF rendering on Maemo and
> convert documents into HTML instead and view them using browser?

This is also an issue for being able to use the tablet to show presentations.  
I have experimented with exporting presentations to PDF but they just take 
far too long to render on the tablet.  A particular problem is that it is not 
predictable: the time taken depends on the number of elements in the slide 
with complex slides taking as long as 20 seconds.

I have concluded that the only option for presentations is to pre-convert the 
slides to images and display those.  See the Xsisusb documentation 
(http://xsisusb.garage.maemo.org/powerpoint.html) for more discussion of 
this.

Graham