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Originally Posted by nrapallo
I (Nick Rapallo) have been hacking PDFRead v1.7 since fall 2007 (prior to my join date here) and became a developer along with Ashish Kulkarni.
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For the history buffs (and anniversary celebrants):
My initial exposure to PDFRead was an April 2007 announcement made by Ashish in the REB1200 Yahoo group.
Below is my first post on those modifications that would eventually find themselves into PDFRead v1.8.2. See the attached image for a screenshot of that post (or the text form here):
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Message #4639 of 5148
Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:47 pm
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"nrapallo" <nrapallo@yahoo.ca>
nrapallo
reading PDFs on the REB1200
Re: reading PDFs on the REB1200
Ashish:
My compliments in providing a way to expand the number of ebooks
accessible by our legacy device, namely the REB 1200.
I noticed that the resulting .imp files are grayscale for the
REB1200. I realize that to keep file size to a minimum, grayscale
is the way to go. But since the REB1200 is capable of 15-bit color,
could you provide an option to convert to color .png files using 'n'
colors where 'n' is at least 16 and at most 32768 (default could be
256).
I know that the resulting files will be HUGE, but that could be for
the user to contend with. Possibly choosing 'n' to be a lower
figure could reduce the files size significantly. The user can
experiment and settle on the most acceptable trade-off.
I surmise that you may have also chosen to work with grayscale .png
files as most current ebook readers, that your software is intended
for, are non-color devices, however, displaying color (from well-
formatted .pdf files) is what the REB1200 is suited to!
Just a suggestion...
Regards,
-Nick
--- In REB1200@yahoogroups.com, "Ashish Kulkarni" <dustinefog@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've released a new version of this tool (PDFRead 1.6). It adds lots
> of new features and fixes some problems encountered while creating the
> IMP using eBook publisher. Please see this page for details:
>
> http://pdfread.sourceforge.net/#changes
>
> Regards
> ashish
Two years and counting...
