hi all,<br><br>the current liqbase has a simplified text based book reader - its available in maemo extras.<br><br>its
got super sliq kinetic scrolling through the document and fullscreen
tearfree rendering of booktext with an autoscroll function :)<br>
it remembers your position and allows you to select a new book (what else do you need..)<br><br>its
principle limitation is that it reads only text files (the other being
its all mixed in with everything else that I expect to have)<br>
<br>there are discussions underway and plans to make use of my new
libliqbase framework to allow multiple book formats to be read on the
device using the same sliq UI :)<br><br>theres a video of my work here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaY</a> which shows the initial framework a couple of months ago and I have advanced further already (theres a followup video)<br>
<br>We (myself, community council member keesj and jeremiah the maemo
debmaster) have just spent some time at the mozilla maemo weekend
preparing a proper debian package for the library itself so that myself
and others can build on the library to create apps which work well on
this and future devices (I have run the framework on omap3 prototypes
with even more impressive speed!)<br>
<br>hope that gives a little foodfor thought :)<br><br>gary (lcuk on #maemo)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Erik Hovland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@hovland.org">erik@hovland.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Hubert Figuiere<<a href="mailto:hub@figuiere.net">hub@figuiere.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 06/01/2009 01:49 PM, Erik Hovland wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> The real bonus points for reading electronic documents is to make evince<br>
>> be<br>
>> small screen aware and make it be able understand page layout so that it<br>
>> focuses<br>
>> away whitespace (like margins). Bonus points if it understands two and<br>
>> three column<br>
>> layouts as well. PDF reading on small devices is the sux0rs.<br>
><br>
> The real problem is that PDF is not a format for electronic books. Because<br>
> it hardcodes paper size and layout, it is not independant of the media. PDF<br>
> is a format for digital rendering of printouts.<br>
><br>
> As long as this will not be understood, then the problem will stick.<br>
> (and this also applies to people who think PDF is also for the web)<br>
<br>
</div>I totally agree. But as long as this issue is not understood we are stuck w/<br>
lots of ebooks in PDF.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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Erik Hovland<br>
<a href="mailto:erik@hovland.org">erik@hovland.org</a><br>
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