User:Sayamindu/BookReader

Reading Books on the XO-1

The page serves as a progress report cum test matrix for the BookReader development efforts currently going on at OLPC. Apart from the latest (test) version of the activities, this page also provides a set of test files in different formats, which should be readable after the activities listed in this page are installed on an XO.

Activities

Please note that these Activities are not upstreamed yet, and one should ideally contact the bookreader list in case of problems/suggestions/etc. To download a particular activity, from your XO's Browse activity, click on the Download link, and choose to save the file to your Journal. Once download is complete, you can launch the newer version from your Journal.

Read

• Version: 56
• Release date: 21st April 2009
• Download link: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Read-56.xo
• Works with: OLPC XO OS 8.2.x
• Supported formats:
  • PDF (including compressed variants)
  • Postscript/EPS (including compressed variants)
  • Comic Book Archive (only the zipped variant)
  • DJVU
• Changes: Adds bookmark support.

FBReader

• Version: 2
• Release date: 8th April 2009
• Download link: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/FBReader-2.xo
• Works with: OLPC XO OS 8.2.x
• Supported formats:
  • Epub
  • PluckerDB
• Changes:
  • Update to FBReader 0.10.7
  • Ensure that pdb files open
  • Add support for the game-keys (square, cross, triangle, etc)
  • Make keypress based navigation more efficient/foolproof
  • Better state preservation (last open page/paragraph is now remembered)

Note that both the above activities may need a slightly modified version of Browse, which can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-102.xo We are currently working on getting the changes to Browse accepted upstream.

Test Matrix

Test Files for Book Reader(s)

Filename	Type	Link	Activity	Activity Version	OS Build	Tested	Notes
abs-guide.pdf	PDF	[1]	Read	55	8.2.0	Yes	Works fine (including Table of Contents)
US_Government_Lands_and_Native_American_Reservations_in_Nevada_USA.pdf	PDF	[2]	Read			No	Image heavy
Zzz.pdf	PDF	[3]	Read			No	Image heavy
samplebook.cbz	Comic Book Archive - Zipped (cbz)	[4]	Read	55	8.2.0	Yes	Renders fine, though is a bit hazy if zoomed to fit to page (resolution/upscaling issue). Page count and jumping between pages breaks with older versions of Read due to bug in Evince backend.
yantrakoshaorat00tagogoog.djvu	DJVU	[5]	Read	55	8.2.0	Yes	Renders fine. In a non-European language. Older versions of Read will crash trying to open this
abs-guide.pdb	PluckerDB	[6]	FBReader	2	8.2.0	Yes	Older version of the FBReader activity is not able to open the file