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Old 01-24-2011, 04:52 AM   #91
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I had a pdf-file of which the title was 'Layout1', which obviously was wrong. I had the impression that I could not change the metadata of this file. Can you point me to a tool that can?

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http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

It's multiplatform and has some external GUI frontends [1], but afaik this frontend doesn't allow to change file metadata, you'll have to do it from command line (look at dump_data*, update_info* commands).

[1] http://www.paehl.de/pdf/?GUI_for_PDFTK


The program I mention (python-based, of course ) can trim the borders and (non-written yet) use pdftk to edit metadata.

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Old 01-24-2011, 08:03 AM   #92
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Hi Iņigo,

The program functions indeed as specified, but it is not a very convenient way to edit the pdf metadata...

I tried your sysinfo script and I got had the problem that the script has windows line-endings, converting them to unix made it all work. (I did not kill any process yet )

I also tried info.lua, but I am missing some lua libraries (base64) I guess I need to install a newer lua port.

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Old 01-24-2011, 09:13 AM   #93
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I tried your sysinfo script and I got had the problem that the script has windows line-endings, converting them to unix made it all work. (I did not kill any process yet )
Can't understand.
I wrote the code on my home computer, a linux machine. The only windows computer my hands touch is this work laptop, but I don't develop here...
Besides, the script worked both on the qemu and on my DR800.
Haven't you uncompressed and edited the file on your computer before copying on the DR?

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I also tried info.lua, but I am missing some lua libraries (base64) I guess I need to install a newer lua port.
You need lua package v3 at least.

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Old 01-24-2011, 09:51 AM   #94
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sysinfo works very nicely on both devices for me, a convenient way to switch off the keyboard left over from usbnet or rxvt for instance ...
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Old 01-24-2011, 10:00 AM   #95
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Can't understand.
I wrote the code on my home computer, a linux machine. The only windows computer my hands touch is this work laptop, but I don't develop here...
Besides, the script worked both on the qemu and on my DR800.
Haven't you uncompressed and edited the file on your computer before copying on the DR?
The work PC has WinZip, which seems to 'conviently' convert Unix files to Dos-files. I tried with 7-zip and then all is fine.
Found it, there is an option 'TAR file smart CR/LF conversion'. Guess it was too smart ...


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You need lua package v3 at least.
Aha probably forgot to update to the latest version, will do that.
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Old 01-25-2011, 08:40 AM   #96
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great info. I'd just like to know which is the lates lua package version available? Thanks
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Old 01-25-2011, 09:41 AM   #97
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great info. I'd just like to know which is the lates lua package version available? Thanks
The latest is here v3, released 20101214.
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Hi Iņigo,

I looked at your example:
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An example of my idea, 3 books with tags:
Hacking the DR -> Computers
Programming in Lua -> Devel, Lua
Algorithms -> Devel

We are at HOME, now we tap on "Tags" entry, we see:
Code:
    Tags
    [Up] [Computers] [Devel] [Lua]
    "Hacking the DR" "Programming in Lua" "Algorithms"
(this is a normal DR iconview, think in the [tags] as special folders. As no tag is selected we see all books).

Now we tap on "Devel", we see:
Code:
    Tags: Devel
    [Up] [Lua]
    "Programming in Lua" "Algorithms"
(no [Computer] because there is no book sharing Devel and Computer tags. We see the 2 files with Devel tag).

Now we tap on "Lua", we see:
Code:
    Tags: Devel, Lua
    [Up]
    "Programming in Lua"
(only one book has both tags).
The problem is that the tags are normally not extracted from the database into memory. Therefore it is not that easy to determine the tags that are 'present' in the current set of documents.
So I experimented with another 'interface' for selecting extra tags using a dialog. See the attached picture.
In the top-right you see an extra icon next to the search and short-cut icon.
Pressing it will show the dialog.
Which allows to select a function (E.g.: A and B and C and D, A or B or C or D) and 4 fields to select the value for A..D.
(See bitbucket for code, I only experimented on qemu sofar.)

Currently I still have several limitations/issues in the code, but in the future these could be removed when needed. (Among others: limited number of functions, what will be the behaviour of the comboboxes if too many tags are defined?)

Please give me your feedback.

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Old 03-13-2011, 08:26 PM   #99
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bah .. cmon.. stop wasting your time in this device..
there is no more support..
it's time to buy something else..
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Old 03-14-2011, 03:18 AM   #100
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bah .. cmon.. stop wasting your time in this device..
there is no more support..
it's time to buy something else..
Why would I do that, I have a perfectly working device that allows me to do all the things I expect from an ereader, with no matching device available in the market. I have a nice development environment that allows me to practice/shape my embedded software capabilities and expand my linux knowledge.
To rephrase your words:
cmon ... please stop wasting your time in this part of the forum ...
there is no-one interested ..
it's time to move to a different part of this forum..
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Old 03-14-2011, 03:30 AM   #101
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repods, I am not completely sure what you are talking about but for some of us users out there, the improvements by Mackx and Iņigo (and a few others) on the DR's ARE precisely the support we are looking for. To my mind and for my purposes, they make the devices better than most readers you can buy, even today. In fact I have not been able to find other readers with a similar set of features (pdf & djvu reading + most (all?) other formats out there through fbreader, xournal for annotations, lots of improvements and tweaks on the UI....)

When I bought the readers, the company was already bankrupt, but at that stage, who cares if the support is "official" or graciously provided by the some developers on this forum?
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Mackx was apparently typing faster than myself, and I just realize that I spend more than 12 minutes on my reply, back to work then ....

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Old 03-14-2011, 10:23 AM   #103
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bah .. cmon.. stop wasting your time in this device..
there is no more support..
it's time to buy something else..
After more than 1 (DR800) or 2 (DR1000) years there isn't any better ereader in the market.

Anyway, people spend their time in what they want, so please refrain yourself of telling people what they can or can not do.

As Mackx has already said, if you don't like what this forum does or represents, go away, and don't insult the work people are doing or even their interests.

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Old 03-14-2011, 11:01 AM   #104
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Hello,

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The problem is that the tags are normally not extracted from the database into memory. Therefore it is not that easy to determine the tags that are 'present' in the current set of documents.
Sorry, can't understand.
As I understand, tags are extracted before selecting which documents will be shown, not the other way.


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So I experimented with another 'interface' for selecting extra tags using a dialog.
[...]
Please give me your feedback.
What about a list of ("operation", "tag") dropboxes inside a scrolled vbox:

Code:
+-----------------------------+
|                             |
| Label here                  |
|                             |
|   |     v|    |tag1    v|   |
|   |and  v|    |tag2    v|   |
|   |or   v|    |tag3    v|   |
|   |not  v|    |tag4    v|   |
|        |ADD ROW|            |
|                             |
| Result:                     |
|  tag1 & tag2 or tag3 !tag4  |
|                             |
+-----------------------------+

Problems with this design:
- disambiguation "(tag1 & tag2) | tag3" or "tag1 & (tag2 | tag3)"?
- list (and dialog) could grow too much => use a scrolledwindow for the verticalbox


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Well, that was constructive.
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