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Old 07-24-2006, 05:04 PM   #3
Roceh
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I've been getting a little frustrated with the page turn speed on the pdf viewer and the font size on the xeb viewer is to big. Having noticed the picture show demo was always pretty quick on page turns, pressumably because a lot of cpu time is spent rasterizing the vector text for pdf/html. I wrote a little proggy that generates a picture show from a text file, similar to how the sony librie works i guess. Get the PC to do the hard work, and just have the device blit the bitmap to the screen.

It works pretty well, as fast as the xeb reader. I've attached an example chapter and the VERY basic proggy for anyone interested.

The generated book is put in a subfolder called books in the same directory as the proggy.

UPDATE: improved the text rendering, looks a lot nicer now. Both attachments updated.

UPDATE2: Fixed a couple of small bugs, and added proportional text option
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File Type: zip bitmap_ebook_test3.zip (354.2 KB, 351 views)
File Type: zip TextToImage3.zip (269.2 KB, 409 views)

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