iLiad Java Viewer Booster Pack

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by azerty

Are there Java-based pdf vieuwers out there?
[edit] This could be a starting point? http://www.jpedal.org/viewer.php

Jarnel (a Java Notetaker and PDF Annotator ) credits JPedal and iText.

[scotty1024]

I've already been prepping Jarnal.

Swing is off the burner for now, the GNU Classpath swing has issues with Intent.

I've confirmed that Momma Tao Group allows you to supply java.awt.TextField, java.awt.TextArea, java.awt.TextComponent and I have them mostly written. More work needed on the preferred size code, but we're very close to having them.

I also learned that iRex trimmed the display for Java, we can't write to the whole display.

/device/ave
-w768
-h935
-t0x10000008
-p160
-kdev/keyboard/cooked/gb-table.img/ave
-gave/toolkit/tao/class

Maybe this can be over ridden some how...

[bedwere]

I installed the package and tried one of the DJVU books from the Internet Archive but neither it was recognized by Mobipocket nor I was able to view it. I could view the book on my desktop after I installed DJVuLibre. I guess I must be missing something

[scotty1024]

So which book? If you don't want to say here: PM me.

[bedwere]

The book is this .

Thanks!

[scotty1024]

The JavaDjvu Release 0.8.09 code definitely doesn't much care for those DJVU's on that site. I can get them to work by being very patient and giving it lots of time to decode each page image (some take nearly a full minute to decode).

You are welcome to poke around http://sourceforge.net/projects/javadjvu and see if they have any clues. If you come up with anything I can implement please let me know.

[bedwere]

I downloaded JavaDjvu on my laptop (Dell XPS M1210 running Ubuntu 6.10), I opened the book without problem, and could turn pages instantly. But I have much larger CPU power than the iLiad.

[scotty1024]

I ran the applet on my Mac and its memory consumption on that ebook was 97MB.

I used -Xmx32m to cut it back to roughly the amount of heap available on the iLiad and it started acting much like it does on the iLiad.

With those Archive titles, with other DJVU titles it runs happily on 32MB.

At a guess the de-compressor used in the Archive ebooks needs a bit of optimization.

[mill0r]

Great I managed to view my unmodified CBZ files on the iLiad ... superb work scotty

[Annah]

I've downloaded the zip file and extracted to my iliads internal memory but when I tried installing, nothing happens? Any ideas? *is perplexed* (and many thanks in advance!)

[tororebelde]

Originally Posted by Annah

I've downloaded the zip file and extracted to my iliads internal memory but when I tried installing, nothing happens? Any ideas? *is perplexed* (and many thanks in advance!)

Hi Annah,

you'll probably need the shell script package to use any iliad external program, I mean, you need this to use the DJVU viewer from Scotty or any other ported program refered here.

You could do this from here: http://www.irextechnologies.com/node/45

[scotty1024]

Where I'm at with the booster development:

I've been wrestling with java.awt.TextArea and I'm almost happy with the results. This one has been a big project because not only have I had to implement a light weight TextArea (not a trivial thing in itself) but I've also had to make it operate in a manner that I think makes sense in the context of e-Ink.

I'm also playing with my new shiny shiny Macbook Pro 2.4GHz with LED back lite and Santa Rosa (zoom zoom) and the new Leopard I got last week at WWDC (toys many shiny new toys!) But we'll get there. Once I've got it to happy happy I can also release my email viewer, it uses the TextArea for various essential chores (like displaying the email itself.)

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by mill0r

Great I managed to view my unmodified CBZ files on the iLiad ... superb work scotty

You are welcome.

So far I haven't heard any questions about cbr support so I've put that waaay back on the stove.

On the Mac I've been using Finder's archive feature to archive up JPEG's and then I rename the archives to .cbz and toss them over onto the iLiad using Mac FUSE and sshfs. They are not comics but are a nice quick way to take along a series of images to show off for various purposes: My Trip to WWDC '07... et al...

I've also had some success with converting Power Point's into .cbz files as well.

[Riocaz]

OK I'll raise questions about cbr support.

In my experience CBR is far more common than CBZ. Though that might just be the circles I move in.

[realityloop]

It there any likelyhood of full screen mode for this, or are we limited by mobipocket viewer at the moment?

Alternatively is it possible to scale images so that they arent under the icon and page number section at the bottom of the screen?