<div dir="ltr">I thought read also opened pdf's from the journal too. (Not sure if it saves what page you were on).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Anna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aschoolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">aschoolf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>If possible, deploy epubs rather than pdfs.<br><br></div>You can always convert an epub to a pdf. You can't easily do it the other way round. Go ahead and search, the pdf format is a bane for people who use ereaders.<br>
<br></div>Also, epubs open from the Journal in the Read Activity, where kids can use bookmarks. PDFs open in Browse and there's no bookmarking mechanism. So you're halfway through a PDF, shut down your XO for the day, then the next morning open the PDF back up and have to scroll to where you left off. Not cool.<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Curt Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:curtathompson@gmail.com" target="_blank">curtathompson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the short term, I just followed Anna's suggestion and put the PDFs in<br>
a directory I made "/var/www/html/science". I tested it out with the<br>
Browse activity in the XO-1 James is lending me as a client and it seems<br>
to work relatively well - opens in-browser, which is nice.<br>
<br>
Not super fast but the images/text load up within a few seconds and it's<br>
scrollable with the buttons near the monitor (once you click inside the<br>
PDF). I'm considering whether it's worth it to extract each page as an<br>
image and convert all these PDFs into essentially an HTML-based "e-book"<br>
to make it more responsive.<br>
<br>
In the long term, I'd like to be able to train teachers in how to add<br>
content. If we can send them a USB stick with PDFs, for example, it'd<br>
be nice for them to be able to simply copy it into place and enjoy the<br>
updated content. Would this be the case once I got Pathagar set up and<br>
working?<br>
<br>
I'll also work on documentation when I can. I started to write setup<br>
documentation but the online install info on the wiki is pretty good.<br>
What's missing (in my humble opinion) is what to do with XSCE once it's<br>
up and running. I'll try to make some time to document the things I<br>
learn as I go.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help<br>
<div><div><br>
<br>
On 11/17/2013 12:05 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Anna <<a href="mailto:aschoolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">aschoolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Pathagar is still a work in progress. I'm not sure if it can handle pdfs,<br>
>> though. Last I saw, it was just epubs.<br>
>><br>
> By design, Pathagar will serve *any* kind of file. The file serving is<br>
> done via HTTP (Can be apache, nginx, or lighttpd, etc). Here is an<br>
> example of PDF: <a href="http://108.171.173.65/book/10/view" target="_blank">http://108.171.173.65/book/10/view</a> and here's an<br>
> example of epub: <a href="http://108.171.173.65/book/8/view" target="_blank">http://108.171.173.65/book/8/view</a> Pathagar itself<br>
> doesn't care about the file format, as long as the http server has a<br>
> way (MIME) to handle it. As far as the Pathagar software itself is<br>
> concerned, there are no showstopping bugs that I know of.<br>
><br>
> A couple of notes on the *installation* of Pathagar, where we do have<br>
> a bunch of problems:<br>
><br>
> 1) The *current* version of Pathagar is borked. I haven't gone back to<br>
> see where it fails or how, but there should be a prior version that<br>
> works. There is also a version (patch) that apparently fixes the book<br>
> edit and upload problem. I have not tested it. I hope someone else can<br>
> take a look?<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar/issues" target="_blank">https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar/issues</a><br>
><br>
> 2) There seem to be multiple deployment approaches. We have PIP, RPM,<br>
> fabric, and the good old way of installing and configuring by hand<br>
> (which is what I follow, because I haven't had the time to test the<br>
> other methods). At the OLPC SF Summit, Jerry told me that they have<br>
> the RPM part addressed, but the current bug (cannot add/edit books)<br>
> gets in the way.<br>
><br>
> Hopefully the latest patch can address these things.<br>
><br>
>> For your immediate purposes, I'd suggest `mkdir /var/www/html/science` and<br>
>> put the pdfs there. Then clients can go to <a href="http://schoolserver/science" target="_blank">http://schoolserver/science</a> to<br>
>> download them.<br>
>><br>
>> Anna<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Curt Thompson <<a href="mailto:curtathompson@gmail.com" target="_blank">curtathompson@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> So I've been tinkering around XSCE School Server for a while now - I<br>
>>> have it set up with Internet-in-a-box via USB drive and I spent a while<br>
>>> trying to get my laptop to work as AP/server.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've also been poking around looking for basic setup info. In<br>
>>> particular, I'm trying to upload these ~36 Science Textbook PDFs and I'm<br>
>>> not sure where to put them, if I should just be copying them to some<br>
>>> directory (etc/Moodle or etc/pathagar or /library/pathagar/media?) or<br>
>>> uploading them via one of these systems. Any advice on which method is<br>
>>> best?<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've looked around the Wiki but I can't find anything like a basic setup<br>
>>> guide (such as a reference that could be used by teachers, students,<br>
>>> and/or volunteers in the field.) Is there such a guide?<br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
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