[sugar] notes on 8.2.1, specifically 767

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:44 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>
>> I agree that it sucks, and I had done some work to enable PDF viewing
>> from within Browse: check out
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/Screenshot.png
>>
>> To make it work, install the RPMs in
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/ and copy the uncompressed
>> version http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/sugar-pdf-viewer.gz
>> into /usr/bin and make it executable.
>
> We set up our own digital library and digitized Nepali books because
> there are so few in digital form. This is true for many developing
> countries.
>
> When I open this link I get "confirm download" option and then get
> nothing
>
> http://www.pustakalaya.org/eserv.php?pid=Pustakalaya:209&dsID=Uhu_Uhu_web.pdf&date=Mon,%2026%20May%202008%2013:30:26%20GMT
>
> URL is a little weird because we are using Fedora-Commons (unrelated to
> fedora linux) an open-source library management server.
>
> I could open this w/ Browse on 703 but I can't recall if that was using
> the latest Browse. The pdf won't open on 767 w/ Browse v98
>
>

Is this after you install the embedded PDF related stuff ?
Thanks,
Sayamindu





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