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

[Bert Freudenberg]

Ah, hadn't heard about DjVu before - that's exactly what I was  
looking for. Thanks :)

- Bert -

Am Jan 21, 2007 um 11:29  schrieb 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
>>>>>>> Internet Archive