Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 Owner's Thread

[gbgbgb]

Originally Posted by md02439

@gbgbgb, @rem736: could you make a photo of the DPT-S1 in the Padfolio?

Thanks

The one I bought (which at $40+ costs twice as much as @rem736's) looks like this:
http://www.officedepot.com/a/product...Closure-Black/ (actually $20+ on Amazon..)
If you take out the pages on the right, the DPT-S1 fits in, along with its sleeve and pen. It is not anchored to anything but the whole thing fits inside the pad. Zipper easily closes on it. More a hardened carrying case than anything else.
HTH

[FarhanS]

I've tried searching, but any idea what the max SD capacity is on this device (in GB)?

[gbgbgb]

Originally Posted by FarhanS

I've tried searching, but any idea what the max SD capacity is on this device (in GB)?

The manual says 32GB. Not tried myself.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by ManDay

I just figured someone could be interested in the script I had lying around my computer for quite some time now. I use it to crop PDFs for the reader. Example invocation

:/croppdf -o outfile.pdf infile.pdf 10 20. 500. 700 20 30. 500. 700

If you just run it without arguments, it gives a command summary for all features. Runs on Linux/Bash with ghostscript (command gs) installed.

Worked great the very first run!

From time to time, I search the net for how to crop a PDF. It seems to be a common problem, and a wide variety of answers have been posted at a wide variety of sites. None of them have ever worked for me. This one does. I didn't even have any copy/paste errors. (It was a bit cruel not to also attach the file to the message.)

I was also in luck that the document I tried it on only needed a single crop specification. I have to confess to being completely confused as to how to specify cyclical groups of pages.

Does your example use the second group for all pages after the first?

How would one specify odd/even page cropping?

Thanks for a great script!

[ManDay]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Worked great the very first run!

From time to time, I search the net for how to crop a PDF. It seems to be a common problem, and a wide variety of answers have been posted at a wide variety of sites. None of them have ever worked for me. This one does. I didn't even have any copy/paste errors. (It was a bit cruel not to also attach the file to the message.)

I was also in luck that the document I tried it on only needed a single crop specification. I have to confess to being completely confused as to how to specify cyclical groups of pages.

Does your example use the second group for all pages after the first?

How would one specify odd/even page cropping?

Thanks for a great script!

Helo, I'm happy it works for you. Thanks to your telling me I found there is a bug in the page cycling :-/ I fixed it now. For odd/even pages you'd do something like that (I guess you already knew but were irritated because it didn't work)


croppdf file.pdf 10 10 500 700 40 10 500 730

I didn't know one can attach files to posts This time! (I had to rename it to croppdf.txt because it wouldn't let me upload it otherwise).

Hope it works better now!

(The cyclic thing works like that:

croppdf file.pdf <4 margins for 1st page> <4 margins for 2nd page> <4 margins for 3rd page> ... <4 margins for n-th page>

and the n+1-th page will start over with the margins from the 1st page again. hth)

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by ManDay

Helo, I'm happy it works for you. Thanks to your telling me I found there is a bug in the page cycling :-/ I fixed it now. For odd/even pages you'd do something like that (I guess you already knew but were irritated because it didn't work)

croppdf file.pdf 10 10 500 700 40 10 500 730

No, not at all irritated. I had not tried because all the documents I had cropped needed the same crop box for each page. I was confused about the multiple box case because I was assuming some more general and complicated scheme that probably does not even have an actual example.

I have since cropped "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon, which does have right and left pages shifted with respect to each other. It is also the only document I've come across so far with an ideal (actual text on page) aspect ratio taller than an android tablet (even with header and footer cropped). That worked great! Thanks again!

Originally Posted by ManDay

I didn't know one can attach files to posts This time! (I had to rename it to croppdf.txt because it wouldn't let me upload it otherwise).

I've found a number of things on this board only after accidentally scrolling down way more than I thought was present on the page.

You can gzip any file as .gz is allowed. For multiple files tar and zip are also allowed, which also means tar.gz is allowed.

I am having trouble with the -a option. It just goes into an infinite loop, I think stuck processing the option.

Syntax highlighting in vim turns the last ")" character on the line:
(( i++ ))
red, but I don't know what that is implying since the parentheses seem to match up.

Originally Posted by ManDay

Hope it works better now!

(The cyclic thing works like that:

croppdf file.pdf <4 margins for 1st page> <4 margins for 2nd page> <4 margins for 3rd page> ... <4 margins for n-th page>

and the n+1-th page will start over with the margins from the 1st page again. hth)

[ManDay]

Oh, well... more bugs Thanks for reporting I hope that's fixed now

[arabian]

Originally Posted by Marc Mertens

Thanks for your reply,

unfortunately Sony US refuses to sell the DPT-S1 to people outside the US, I have tried to buy from Sony US and their formal answer was that they will not sell the product outside the US. It is a pity because I think they have a great product for reading and annotating mathematical papers.

Marc

guys, sony affiliate resellers do sell to any one.

you can buy it and send it to a forwarding service within the USA. I have tried Iparcel which is in a deal with the local post in saudi arabia and I'm trying fishisfast for the 1st time. It has very acceptable shipping forwarding service but yet to see how good they are.

Currently my sony dpt s1 is on the way with fedex to my forwarding service!

in the reseller websie I did not see away to buy, so I sent them an e mail asking how and they gave me the number through whiich I made the order after I give them address order name etc through the e mail.

[Colognese]

To keep everything in a single thread - Calibre now supports the DPT-S1 from release 2.33 on.

[ManDay]

Is anyone aware of a website which can view the PDF with annotations? Unfortunally, none of the PDF viewers on my PC appears to be capable of viewing the annotations made on the DPT-S1 and none of the websites with PDF viewing capabilities appear to be able, either. I'd also gladly accept a way to just get them out there *somehow*...

[rem736]

Originally Posted by ManDay

Is anyone aware of a website which can view the PDF with annotations? Unfortunally, none of the PDF viewers on my PC appears to be capable of viewing the annotations made on the DPT-S1 and none of the websites with PDF viewing capabilities appear to be able, either. I'd also gladly accept a way to just get them out there *somehow*...

i just tested a pdf by handwriting on a page, creating a sticky note, and also adding highlights.
in either foxit reader or adobe reader for windows and i can see all that i've added. hovering over the sticky note shows the content. and double-clicking on it opens it up for editing.

i am unaware of any web-based pdf viewers. what pdf reader is installed on your PC?

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by ManDay

Is anyone aware of a website which can view the PDF with annotations? Unfortunally, none of the PDF viewers on my PC appears to be capable of viewing the annotations made on the DPT-S1 and none of the websites with PDF viewing capabilities appear to be able, either. I'd also gladly accept a way to just get them out there *somehow*...

xpdf for highlights and drawing/writing, but sticky notes just show up as an icon for a stcky note.

pdftk name.pdf unpack output outdir_name

puts pdfs of the sticky notes into the directory outdir_name with names like
ClipMemo_20150727_202446.pdf
which xpdf is able to display.

evince does even better. The drawing and highlighting are visible, and the sticky note icon is clickable. When clicked, the sticky note is displayed in a new window.

[ManDay]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

xpdf for highlights and drawing/writing, but sticky notes just show up as an icon for a stcky note.

pdftk name.pdf unpack output outdir_name

puts pdfs of the sticky notes into the directory outdir_name with names like
ClipMemo_20150727_202446.pdf
which xpdf is able to display.

evince does even better. The drawing and highlighting are visible, and the sticky note icon is clickable. When clicked, the sticky note is displayed in a new window.

Great. These are two really good solutions, thanks!

rem736: I'm using Linux and had only mupdf and zathura installed for viewers.

[rkomar]

You might also try okular. It has pretty good support for annotations. See the internal Help document for instructions.

[rem736]

Originally Posted by rkomar

You might also try okular. It has pretty good support for annotations. See the internal Help document for instructions.

foxit reader is also available for linux