do the directional pad (d-pad or directional buttons) work on B1 hardware?

[Bert Freudenberg]

So it appears it is just scanned bitmaps, you're not doing OCR on them.

I wonder ... is there an image compression method taking advantage of  
the subject being printed text?

- Bert -

Am Jan 21, 2007 um 8:47  schrieb Brewster Kahle:

>
> we can construct anything, but pdf is the best for us-- we have  
> them built now.
>
> the old revision of software used to play our pdf's (but crash  
> after a minute or so), but they dont run at all in the new release  
> (by clicking from the web browser).   the "flip book" javascript  
> viewer works, but the pages should be one-up and rotated so they  
> fill the screen.
>
> Here is an example book:
> http://www.archive.org/details/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft
>
> flip book is here:
> http://www.openlibrary.org/details/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft
>
> pdf is here:
> http://www.archive.org/download/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft/ 
> flatlandromanceo00abbouoft.pdf
>
> thank you for the help.
>
> -brewster
>
>
>
> Jim Gettys wrote:
>> What format is the book source in?  HTML, PDF, bitmap?
>>                              - Jim
>> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:49 -0800, Brewster Kahle wrote:
>>> thank you for the quick reply.   we will be hacking something  
>>> tomorrow.
>>>
>>> would you guess the quickest way to get a demo is browser/ 
>>> javascript?
>>>
>>> the other approach seems to be python GTK.
>>>
>>> Any early guidance to keep us from a rathole would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> -brewster
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Gettys wrote:
>>>> Hi, Brewster,
>>>>
>>>> This sort of question would normally go to the devel at laptop.org  
>>>> list,
>>>> where the low level types hang out.  I might discuss the  
>>>> detailed UI
>>>> design on sugar at laptop.org, where the UI people tend to hang  
>>>> out, and
>>>> this list for library related items themselves.  At least that  
>>>> would be
>>>> my take on it.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the buttons should work.
>>>>
>>>> They appear to be keyboard keys.
>>>>
>>>> I don't remember if we have X keysyms all hooked up for them this
>>>> instant or not, but it should be possible without much trouble:  
>>>> we only
>>>> got rotation running very recently.
>>>>
>>>> On the BTest-1 systems, holding multiple keys down at once may not
>>>> result in separate key events; this should be fixed in BTest-2.
>>>>                                 Best regards,
>>>>                                       - Jim Gettys
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:02 -0800, Brewster Kahle wrote:
>>>>> We are trying to make a quick and dirty demo of a few images of  
>>>>> book pages showing up on the screen.    tablet mode, we think,  
>>>>> will make the best demo.   we would like to use the directional  
>>>>> buttons to flip between pages.
>>>>>
>>>>> In preparation for a programmer working on this (sorry if this  
>>>>> is obvious) does anyone know if these buttons send a character  
>>>>> to the machine?
>>>>>
>>>>> also, is this the right list for talking about book viewers?
>>>>>
>>>>> -brewster
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