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: 55
- Release date: 30th March 2009
- Download link: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Read-55.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: This is essentially a backport of the entire stack (including Evince, Poppler, etc) from Sugar 0.84/Fedora 11). New features include
- Table of contents support (for files which contain TOC information)
- Objectchooser (which comes up when Read is started directly from the home screen)
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
| Filename | Type | Link | Activity | Activity Version | OS Build | Tested | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| abs-guide.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 | [2] | Read | No | Image heavy | |||
| Zzz.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 |