#106988 - biohazard_star - Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:53 pm
I was wondering if anyone has found a way to play stuff like animated gifs and PDFs yet in Moonshell. If anyone found a way to play PDFs then I'm sure many people will be happy.
#106997 - darkgilson - Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:18 pm
You can use Dsorganize to see animated gifs.
But for a pdf reader, it's very difficult, because the ds has only 4 mo of ram !
_________________
Soon Blubb in 3D !
#107006 - ?hr - Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:11 pm
| darkgilson wrote: |
You can use Dsorganize to see animated gifs.
But for a pdf reader, it's very difficult, because the ds has only 4 mo of ram ! |
doesnt moonshell support animated gifs too?
also, pdf is too complex and too large for the 4mb ram and slow cpu.
#107015 - darkgilson - Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:16 pm
Yes, but I saw some bugs with Moonshell. Some frames aren't showed.
In dsorganize, it's sometime slow, but all the frames are there !
_________________
Soon Blubb in 3D !
#107055 - Darkflame - Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:43 am
Just curious...what does everyone want PDF so much for anyway?
_________________
Darkflames Reviews --
Make your own at;
Rateoholic:Reviews for anything, by anyone.
#107058 - josath - Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:42 am
you could always convert your PDF into a bunch of JPG or PNGs :P
#107072 - biohazard_star - Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:29 am
| Darkflame wrote: |
| Just curious...what does everyone want PDF so much for anyway? |
books? game manuals? >_>;;
#107075 - OOPMan - Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:27 am
Hmmmmmm, the memory barrier can be gotten around. The CPU issue would be more of a problem...
I'm sure some work could be done though. I mean, it's not as though a DS PDF reader needs all the whistles-and-bells of Acrobat Pro or anything...
For example, a PDF reader w/o image support and with a fixed resolution might work. (By fixed resolution I mean that one would use a DS Opera style of document navigation)
_________________
"My boot, your face..." - Attributed to OOPMan, Emperor of Eroticon VI
You can find my NDS homebrew projects here...
#107082 - Darkflame - Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:25 am
| biohazard_star wrote: |
| Darkflame wrote: | | Just curious...what does everyone want PDF so much for anyway? |
books? game manuals? >_>;; |
Txt is good enough for a book. (and much smaller)
Game manuals, I guess...I never use manuals much though.
_________________
Darkflames Reviews --
Make your own at;
Rateoholic:Reviews for anything, by anyone.
#107415 - jenswa - Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:25 pm
What exactly would be the problem with the CPU?
Is it too slow to decode/format a PDF file for proper screenreading?
Foxit Reader is a small freeware viewer and it's even smaller for mobile devices. But I don't think it's open source, but a nice example of a smaller pdf viewer.
Another one is Xpdf and the source can be downloaded.
But I've no experience in DS coding nor in coding pdf applications, so I wouldn't know what problems could arise.
But displaying one page at the time should be possible, I think.
_________________
It seems this wasn't lost after all.