Is there any pdf reader for psp exist?

clip · Post by **clip** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:44 am

or someone is developing one?

rest05 · Post by **rest05** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:14 am

i need one too, i was trying pixie but i dont really find it useful.

Agoln · Post by **Agoln** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:20 am

search for ebook in the forums.

sasq · Post by **sasq** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:10 am

There are none and I don't think one will turn up in the foreseeable future - the best soloution is probably to convert PDF to JPG and view it as pictures.

(You really should try to learn what is hard to do and what is not. Rendering PDFs is hard.)

clip · Post by **clip** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:01 pm

yes, I guess it's hard.
how about a .chm reader?

Agoln · Post by **Agoln** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:26 am

clip wrote:yes, I guess it's hard.
how about a .chm reader?

Nope, but would be glad to hear when you are finished with making it :)

sexdwarf · Post by **sexdwarf** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:49 am

i've got plans to work on a pdf reader once i get my wave library completed (tonight)...

rest05 · Post by **rest05** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:07 am

i've got plans to work on a pdf reader once i get my wave library completed (tonight)...

nice to hear this hope it happens

Arwin · Post by **Arwin** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:09 am

the format description is available, at least. In theory, it seems to be doable - you could start with just displaying the text and then work your way up. And the good thing is that the fonts are usually embedded, and if the Pixie reader comes with sources, that'd be a great place to start.

I've actually been looking into pdfs a bit before. The simple ones I have no problems with, but the ones I don't quite understand is the ones where the text consist of weird streams. How are they encoded? The documentation doesn't really say much about it - if it had really been just text with layout then I should be able to see the characters as ansi, but unlike the pdf descriptor tags (subject, author, renderware, etc.) I can't decypher them. I don't recognise them as transposed unicode either, so what remains is that I guess that PDFs created by converting PostScript printout doesn't in fact contain characters but it contains graphics descriptors with lines and coordinates of fonts that have been drawn by the computer and are sent as vector graphics data to the printer. This is then converted to a description that the PDF document can read.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

sasq · Post by **sasq** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:56 am

First of all you I think the idea if writing a pdf-renderer from scratch is pretty insane, especially if you want it to render somewhat correctly. Rendering text "properly" is very tricky as I've come to realize lately.

chm is just packed html so thats equivalent of wrting a html browser, again not something you do over a weekend.

mirrorsawlljk · Post by **mirrorsawlljk** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:53 pm

Doesn's openoffice have a PDF rendering engine? That's open source, so it might be something to look at for example code.

liquid8d · Post by **liquid8d** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:37 pm

Just to hold anyone over until someone does.. just found this today..

http://pdf2psp.sourceforge.net/

Converts pdfs to images and gives some options for image layout

EDIT: MacOS X only

LiQuiD8d

clip · Post by **clip** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:37 pm

sexdwarf wrote:i've got plans to work on a pdf reader once i get my wave library completed (tonight)...

cool! keep us updated, I think it will be extremely valuable!

jpadams · Post by **jpadams** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:31 am

you might want to look at this ?
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
its a PDF rendering lib opensourced

sexdwarf · Post by **sexdwarf** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:17 am

jpadams wrote:you might want to look at this ?
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
its a PDF rendering lib opensourced

i'm trying to stay away from anything x based, and am working with a library at the moment that should be an easy port... rendering things properly is what i am concerned about...

Arwin · Post by **Arwin** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:38 am

sexdwarf wrote:
jpadams wrote:you might want to look at this ?
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
its a PDF rendering lib opensourced
i'm trying to stay away from anything x based, and am working with a library at the moment that should be an easy port... rendering things properly is what i am concerned about...

If there is anything I can do to help ...

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Is there any pdf reader for psp exist?

Is there any pdf reader for psp exist?

yea

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