I exist I swear!
;)
My book maker project became REALLY bogged down once I got into the text rendering mechanisms on OS X. Basically, the cocoa text manipulation interface widgets don't like the old screen-only fonts that NewtonPress and the Newton used. Combine my inability to focus on learning how to convert them to truetype fonts with a goal of pixel-accurrate on screen rendering to match that of a real newton (and thus proper pagination) and I sort of threw up my hands in disgust.
Along the way I've convinced my program to read in and display the text of a newtonbook without many hiccups, was exploring image support, and have nifty GUI / command line tools for delving into the contents / structure of newton .pkg files.
Other projects (car computer and writing it's associated music player software, work, more work, moving, paintball) have eroded my time for the book project.
Considering classic is GONE, I'm likely to start work on it again soon. At the very least I'll revamp my website, and put some of my work up for download (open sourcing this thing in the long run - but my code right now is SOOO sloppy).
As for the website being down ... when I started this project my site was hosted by a friend, and along the way I picked up my own server / domain name... but never changed the links to point to my local server instead of my friend. He and his server have truly disappeared from this earth so I guess it's time to actually update my links.
A couple of my updates may have been lost along the move to a new server... I'm still trying to sort out where everything was stored when things went kablooie a couple months ago. Anyway:
On Saturday, November 10, 2007, at 04:57PM, "Morgan Aldridge" <morgant@makkintosshu.com> wrote:
>On Nov 10, 2007 5:06 PM, Andrew Forrest <andyf@cwgsy.net> wrote:
>>
>> Now to get the dev system out and write an os x maker. could be fun!
>
>J. Tyler Nichols started such a project (Newton X Press) around April
>of last year. You can see some of the discussion here on NewtonTalk in
>the archives:
>
><http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk.2006-04/index.html#318>
>
>I believe his work was based on the developer documentation and some
>of Eric W. Brown's (of <http://www.newtonslibrary.org/>) reference
>materials originally published for a CS course at BU. Unfortunately,
>Eric's BU page is down, but it looks like it was grabed once by the
>Internet Wayback Machine:
>
><http://web.archive.org/web/20060904191234/http://metcs.bu.edu/~feneric/cs331/Archives/Project2002/>
>
>He also developed and maintains the Newton Book Reader Extension for
>Firefox <http://www.newtonslibrary.org/nbrdr/>, so he hopefully still
>has the info archived elsewhere as well.
>
>Tyler went silent part way into the project and his site is down as
>well, but a couple of his news pages are cached by Google:
>
><http://www.google.com/search?q=jnichols.slightofcode.com/nxpress/>
>
>Morgan Aldridge
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>http://www.makkintosshu.com/
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