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Old 10-28-2006, 08:30 AM   #44
R2D2
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Device: Zaurus, HTCMagician, iLiad
Replace xpdf and minimo with something else: Picsel Browser

Excuse me guys and let me give you some out of the box input:

There is a company called Picsel which produces viewers for graphics, HTML, XLS, DOC and PDF for embedded devices. The software, called Picsel Browser, is also available for the Sharp clamshell VGA Zaurus which has hardware very similar to the iLiad:



The software is extremely fast and the display of the files is of a very high quality.
Pan and zoom is no problem at all, regardless of the document format:


click on image to download video...

So why don't you call them and ask them to make a iLiad version of the Picsel Browser (essentialy a simplified, low frame rate version of the existing Zaurus one)? This would have some advantages:

* Rapid and rather inexpensive development, because a Zaurus version does already exist.
* No need for Minimo anymore, because HTML support is already supported by the Picsel Browser. Web-Browsing is also possible.
* No need to create a pan and zoom solution on your own.
* Support for office documents. Not that unimportant in my opinion...
* Extremely high performance rendering.

This approach would be much less dirty than trying to implement all kinds of improvements into the existing open source viewers.

In case that you have never seen the Picsel Browser on Zaurus, you have to see it with your own eyes.
So click onto the above screenshot to download a divx movie I created some time ago.

Sorry for repeating myself. Opinions?

btw.:

Scotty you are either drinking to much coffee or having too much spare time and/or a very understanding wife/girlfriend.
In any way, please continue to do so. ;-) Great, impressive work!!!

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