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Old 04-24-2011, 02:40 PM   #4
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Netherlands
Device: iRex DR1000S
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Originally Posted by bokjeid View Post
Now I tried the pViewer. It was too slow but still ran.
I think it is based poppler, an open source pdf-library. It was also used in the older versions of the DR firmware (until 1.7). It is indeed slower then the abode version.
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Originally Posted by bokjeid View Post
And I didn't mean caching all of the pages but just some pages, about 5~10 or so enough to prevent buffering. Only 1 page is so insufficient, compared to any other program which buffers or pre-fetchs.
I think that the biggest problem is that pre-fetching does not work correctly any more. For sequentially reading pages (spending at least 30sec per page) caching one page would be sufficient. But then, I also read magazines which have commercial pages in them that I want to skip, so caching multiple pages would also be better for me. During the design of the pre-fetching mechanism, this kind of use-cases was probably not considered (or they found a reason to exclude this, maybe a compromise between battery usage and functionality?)
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Originally Posted by bokjeid View Post
If it can't be improved, it seems that the last option would be to hide or minimize the loading dialog box.. I posted another thread about this in the past, not recently and dima_tr said he/she succeeded it in my recent thread. Now I'll ask him how..
I have been playing with making the dialog smaller, but I bump into my limited gtk knowledge. I can get the dialog smaller, although it still has the double height that I want it to have; and I don't seem to get it moved from the centre. Any tips appreciated!
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Originally Posted by bokjeid View Post
ps. Another thing:I don't expect it, but can't we upgrade Adobe reader mobile inside DR1000S? I visited Adobe website and it seemed that the newer version came out..
It would not solve the caching issue, since that is in the 'wrapper' between the adobe-library and the uds-viewer.
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