Re: [NTLK] PDF reader. Also, MobiPocket?

From: Marisa Giancarla <fstltna_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri May 01 2009 - 07:41:50 EDT

I was the one who wrote about working on a MobiPocket ebook reader. I
ran into a problem in getting the ebooks imported on the newton as
stand-alone packages, and was thinking of trying to make a nethopper
plugin to do it...

Marisa

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Aaron Brigati wrote:
> On May 1, 2009, at 5:00 AM, Tony Kan wrote:
>
>
>> Sounds like you have a (semi)automated way of converting pdfs to a
>> readable
>> format. What is it? Thanks in advance
>>
>> Tony
>>
>
> I'm sorry, I might not have been clear enough. I was talking about
> reading PDFs on a device with a screen of similar /size/ to the
> Newton, and greyscale, my CyBook V3 (www.bookeen.com) which is a 4
> shades of grey device, screen a little bigger than the Newt's. It has
> PDF handling built in.
>
> However, I did some poking around, and if you want to convert PDFs to
> something the Newton can handle, perhaps try one of these:
>
> Mac: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10528959
> Windows: http://www.zan1011.com/
>
> They're printer drivers that save the printed page as image files
> (jpeg, bmp, png, gif, etc.)
>
> I recall someone saying they were working on a MobiPocket format
> reader for the Newton. Did anything ever come of that, I wonder?
>
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