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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Oh, I see archive.org have djvu formats. Then I guess that would be much
better than bitmap pdfs. Evince supports djvu, so I think you still can
use xbook for that.

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 11:23 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 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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