-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote:
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier a écrit :
Oh, I know all about that sort of thing. Also, it's nice to be able to browse through the manual away from the computer...
also think at a version for PDA's. Most of them can read pdf (I must say than my Zire 31 is very bad on this respect - just tried) and paperless reading should become more usable now, with high def devices.
however, they need much smaller files, my zire can't even open a 6Mb file like the manual - could be spread on one file by chapter and may be the page layout can be different
jdd (just tried with my nokia E65, acrobat refuses to open the file - may be too big)
This is an excellent idea except for some issues, one which you seem to have already discovered. Large PDFs usually cause problems on symbian mobile devices mainly because acrobat reader seems to try to load the whole document into "application memory". (HTML causes similar problems). Apart from the dedicated Linux e-Reader devices, Linux open source e-Reader software seems to be in short supply, but the real problem is settling on a reasonable format and pdf is not it. What would be good is to have something like Tomeraider (which is a good e-book based format for reference documents). Unfortunately, this is *not* free and *not* open source. The MobiPocket Reader is free but *not* opensource, there are some free tools to create MobiPocket documents. (The MobiPocket reader works quite well and if you raid things like the Gutenberg Project, one can get a awful lot of free books). The MobiPocket desktop client is Windows only. Neither of these suffer from the memory issues with acrobat reader on a mobile device. People with s60 phones (such as E65) could try out qreader which is free. http://www.qreader.com/ There is also something called ReadManiac that I have not tried, which seems to generate books as Java midlets.... http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/ReadManiac/ As an approach this is intriguing.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHqxWpasN0sSnLmgIRAuIyAJ9MZccE5RlQeaMm/tldpBQ/AgpZBgCeO6WV pKalPvSNOsQE4b0lPs8mFgk= =ayQU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org