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scotty1024 · 11-07-2006, 04:46 AM

The cold hard realities of the ashes of hope are settling in.

Collaboration with iRex is going nowhere. I'm working on software that has a high potential of bricking the iLiad of someone that doesn't exercise enough caution with its installation. And iRex did not design things like er_registry.txt with 3rd party software installers in mind.

The pluggable ipdf is all good stuff from a technology view though.

I inspect ZIP files. A Baen RTF file gets paged into Pango (solved some issues for me from my previous backend PDFBox). A collection of JPG/PNG's gets paged as a graphic novel or you can put a slideshow time value into the manifest.xml and it flips pages automatically as a slideshow.The same self advance value can be applied to PDF's and DJVU's as well.

I've figured out where to modify Poppler to do the enhanced image ED and accelerate CITT decoding via libtiff. But swapping out libpoppler has a very high pucker factor.

Even my x48 port requires a dangerous edit to the er_registry.txt to install the SHELL hack.

With no means of safe software distribution its all beginning to look very pointless.

11-07-2006, 04:46 AM	#5
scotty1024 Banned Posts: 1,300 Karma: 1479 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Peoples Republic of Washington Device: Reader / iPhone / Librie / Kindle	The cold hard realities of the ashes of hope are settling in. Collaboration with iRex is going nowhere. I'm working on software that has a high potential of bricking the iLiad of someone that doesn't exercise enough caution with its installation. And iRex did not design things like er_registry.txt with 3rd party software installers in mind. The pluggable ipdf is all good stuff from a technology view though. I inspect ZIP files. A Baen RTF file gets paged into Pango (solved some issues for me from my previous backend PDFBox). A collection of JPG/PNG's gets paged as a graphic novel or you can put a slideshow time value into the manifest.xml and it flips pages automatically as a slideshow.The same self advance value can be applied to PDF's and DJVU's as well. I've figured out where to modify Poppler to do the enhanced image ED and accelerate CITT decoding via libtiff. But swapping out libpoppler has a very high pucker factor. Even my x48 port requires a dangerous edit to the er_registry.txt to install the SHELL hack. With no means of safe software distribution its all beginning to look very pointless.