KPV: a PDF reader for Kindle, based on muPDF, GPLv3 - Page 65

hawhill · 03-25-2013, 06:04 PM

I don't think so. But I need to get custom with it first :-) I'll announce koreader in a new thread soon, probably tomorrow morning (in Europe). You may want to ask the question there again. There's still a lot to flesh out in koreader, I guess. But we're now at the point where we have something we can release. It's an early release and there's a lot that can still be improved, granted.

dsmid · 03-26-2013, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

Better Leitor then Neivor!

wow I hope that is funny in other languages too...

Sounds like a bad guy name to me... Evil and cruel

hawhill · 03-26-2013, 04:53 PM

We settled on KOReader - I announced it here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=209276

Please continue to discuss the stable legacy code base in this thread - and head over to the new thread for discussing the new code base.

A note on the old code base: We have restructured the repositories. The new location is https://github.com/koreader/kindlepdfviewer (we switched to an organization account for the development of the projects).

kocoman · 03-30-2013, 12:58 PM

Has anyone tried this on k2 (kindle 2)? Thanks

dave2008 · 03-30-2013, 01:32 PM

Yes, both librerator and KPV should work in K2

dracodoc · 04-04-2013, 12:52 PM

I edited the wiki a lot, tried to make it as simple as possible for new users:
1. Change the order of topic: 1. introduction, 2. download and install, 3. basic intro, I think new user need a basic idea how kpv works and know he can press h in each different mode. This should answer half the questions new user may have.
2. added kite installation, and tips for launchpad. Many people have trouble using launchpad with default time settings.
3. The whole "user guide" page is deleted. I think the previous content is obsolete and accurately not suitable for "user guide". That page is the first page for beginners to learn what kpv can do and how to use it, but they didn't know to use "h" to get the help for each mode. And the most users of current kpv don't need to editing lua files anymore. If you think some of them are still useful, please move it out to somewhere from the history.

dave2008 · 04-04-2013, 03:49 PM

Many thanks to dracodoc! It looks much better now

ondasalfa · 04-16-2013, 12:46 AM

the new version "kindlepdfviewer-nightly-2013-04-15" crashes when opening the epub. already tried it with different books and always the same. which may be the problem?

hawhill · 04-16-2013, 06:17 AM

we'll have to look into it. It's in the nature of nightly builds that this may happen - they are not tested a lot.

dave2008 · 04-16-2013, 02:22 PM

Thanks for the report, we have fixed it in a new PR. As hawhill says, it's easy to crash a nightly build and there are known bugs in the build also. But you get double reflow speed ;p

We are trying to fix these bugs and hopefully can do a release for KPV. (has been a long time since the last one)

Lucas Malor · 04-20-2013, 09:04 AM

EDIT: nothing, a stupid error. Anyway you could say in git page that all the stuff can done by make fetchthirdparty... it seems some must be done manually and some automatically

I have a problem with getting the source code. The process is hanging after the command make fetchthirdparty. I think I've followed all the required steps (I'm not sure about popen-noshell, I have a popen-noshell dir that inside have one .patch file and a popen-noshell-read-only dir)

Steps:

Spoiler:

Lucas Malor · 04-20-2013, 11:09 AM

Ok, I'm emulating it on my pc. Where can I access settings? I can access the menu at the top of the page, but if I click at the bottom of the page no setting menu shows up.

knc1 · 04-20-2013, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucas Malor

Ok, I'm emulating it on my pc. Where can I access settings? I can access the menu at the top of the page, but if I click at the bottom of the page no setting menu shows up.

Are you certain that your emulation is showing you the very bottom of the page ?
Try it on one of the intended machines rather than in emulation.

Lucas Malor · 04-20-2013, 12:06 PM

Done. I clicked on some point near to the bottom since the window overflowed the screen. Since page was not turned I thought the setting menu was not showed. I had to change my screen resolution. Thank you!

PS: some other little remarks: package is not libsdl-dev1.2, is libsdl1.2-dev. Furthermore you must also have cmake installed. IMHO instructions are a bit confusing, I simply done:

Spoiler:

and this is in common with other building options. For emulating I've also done:

Spoiler:

Anyway a very good job, congrats

knc1 · 04-20-2013, 12:17 PM

Your welcome.
There was someone else that posted here recently that could not see that very bottom of the display.
Which is why it occurred to me that maybe you couldn't see/reach it also.
Translation: A lucky guess.

04-04-2013, 12:52 PM	#966
dracodoc Connoisseur Posts: 83 Karma: 322 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle DXG, Sony T1	I edited the wiki a lot, tried to make it as simple as possible for new users: 1. Change the order of topic: 1. introduction, 2. download and install, 3. basic intro, I think new user need a basic idea how kpv works and know he can press h in each different mode. This should answer half the questions new user may have. 2. added kite installation, and tips for launchpad. Many people have trouble using launchpad with default time settings. 3. The whole "user guide" page is deleted. I think the previous content is obsolete and accurately not suitable for "user guide". That page is the first page for beginners to learn what kpv can do and how to use it, but they didn't know to use "h" to get the help for each mode. And the most users of current kpv don't need to editing lua files anymore. If you think some of them are still useful, please move it out to somewhere from the history. Last edited by dracodoc; 04-04-2013 at 12:59 PM.

04-20-2013, 09:04 AM	#971
Lucas Malor Pain in the arse Posts: 758 Karma: 77856 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kobo Aura One, Kindle 4	EDIT: nothing, a stupid error. Anyway you could say in git page that all the stuff can done by make fetchthirdparty... it seems some must be done manually and some automatically I have a problem with getting the source code. The process is hanging after the command make fetchthirdparty. I think I've followed all the required steps (I'm not sure about popen-noshell, I have a popen-noshell dir that inside have one .patch file and a popen-noshell-read-only dir) Steps: Spoiler: mkdir kpv cd kpv git clone https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base.git cd koreader-base git clone --recursive git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/djvulibre.git git clone http://luajit.org/git/luajit-2.0.git git clone https://github.com/chrox/libk2pdfopt.git mkdir popen-noshell cd popen-noshell svn checkout http://popen-noshell.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ popen-noshell-read-only cd .. mkdir kpvcrlib cd kpvcrlib * manual download source * unzip ~/Downloads/crengine-src.zip rm ~/Downloads/crengine-src.zip make fetchthirdparty Last edited by Lucas Malor; 04-20-2013 at 09:12 AM.

04-20-2013, 12:06 PM	#974
Lucas Malor Pain in the arse Posts: 758 Karma: 77856 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kobo Aura One, Kindle 4	Done. I clicked on some point near to the bottom since the window overflowed the screen. Since page was not turned I thought the setting menu was not showed. I had to change my screen resolution. Thank you! PS: some other little remarks: package is not libsdl-dev1.2, is libsdl1.2-dev. Furthermore you must also have cmake installed. IMHO instructions are a bit confusing, I simply done: Spoiler: Code: git clone https://github.com/koreader/koreader.git cd koreader git clone https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base.git make fetchthirdparty and this is in common with other building options. For emulating I've also done: Spoiler: Code: EMULATE_READER=1 make thirdparty EMULATE_READER_W=746 EMULATE_READER_H=1024 koreader-base make bootstrapemu cd emu ./reader.lua -d ./ Anyway a very good job, congrats Last edited by Lucas Malor; 04-20-2013 at 12:14 PM.

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03-25-2013, 06:04 PM	#961
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	I don't think so. But I need to get custom with it first :-) I'll announce koreader in a new thread soon, probably tomorrow morning (in Europe). You may want to ask the question there again. There's still a lot to flesh out in koreader, I guess. But we're now at the point where we have something we can release. It's an early release and there's a lot that can still be improved, granted.

03-26-2013, 04:53 PM	#963
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	We settled on KOReader - I announced it here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=209276 Please continue to discuss the stable legacy code base in this thread - and head over to the new thread for discussing the new code base. A note on the old code base: We have restructured the repositories. The new location is https://github.com/koreader/kindlepdfviewer (we switched to an organization account for the development of the projects).

03-30-2013, 12:58 PM	#964
kocoman Connoisseur Posts: 97 Karma: 28464 Join Date: Dec 2006	Has anyone tried this on k2 (kindle 2)? Thanks

03-30-2013, 01:32 PM	#965
dave2008 Addict Posts: 251 Karma: 183457 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: k3G, KDXG, AuraHD	Yes, both librerator and KPV should work in K2

04-04-2013, 03:49 PM	#967
dave2008 Addict Posts: 251 Karma: 183457 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: k3G, KDXG, AuraHD	Many thanks to dracodoc! It looks much better now

04-16-2013, 12:46 AM	#968
ondasalfa Member Posts: 20 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: kindle dx	the new version "kindlepdfviewer-nightly-2013-04-15" crashes when opening the epub. already tried it with different books and always the same. which may be the problem?

04-16-2013, 06:17 AM	#969
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	we'll have to look into it. It's in the nature of nightly builds that this may happen - they are not tested a lot.

04-16-2013, 02:22 PM	#970
dave2008 Addict Posts: 251 Karma: 183457 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: k3G, KDXG, AuraHD	Thanks for the report, we have fixed it in a new PR. As hawhill says, it's easy to crash a nightly build and there are known bugs in the build also. But you get double reflow speed ;p We are trying to fix these bugs and hopefully can do a release for KPV. (has been a long time since the last one)

04-20-2013, 11:09 AM	#972
Lucas Malor Pain in the arse Posts: 758 Karma: 77856 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kobo Aura One, Kindle 4	Ok, I'm emulating it on my pc. Where can I access settings? I can access the menu at the top of the page, but if I click at the bottom of the page no setting menu shows up.

04-20-2013, 12:17 PM	#975
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	Your welcome. There was someone else that posted here recently that could not see that very bottom of the display. Which is why it occurred to me that maybe you couldn't see/reach it also. Translation: A lucky guess.