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diff --git a/noncore/unsupported/qpdf/README b/noncore/unsupported/qpdf/README index 36ce6bc..65e7aaf 100644 --- a/noncore/unsupported/qpdf/README +++ b/noncore/unsupported/qpdf/README @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ QPDF - a PDF viewer for the Qtopia environment -This tool is based on xpdf (currently 1.00). It uses the (mostly unmodified - +This tool is based on xpdf (currently 1.01). It uses the (mostly unmodified - see below) xpdf PDF rendering engine. The Qtopia adaption was done with a new OutputDev which renders directly to a QPixmap via QPainter calls. Changes in 20020406: - Font substitution handling improved. - Unknown characters are simply ignored now. @@ -17,18 +17,25 @@ Changes in 20020407: Changes in 20020408: - Progress indicator added - Problems with type 3 fonts (not fully supported by XPDF) solved - Heavy optimizations in the image rendering code -Changed in 20020413: +Changes in 20020413: - Fixed crash in find routine - Stylus selection reworked - Cursor-key navigation added - Various crashes related to recursive calling of XPDF fixed +Changes in 20020417: + - Fixed crash in XPDF regarding 0-length strings. + - Fast sqrt, rint and fabs functions added. + +Changes in 20020524: + - Ported to xpdf 1.01 + Changes to xpdf: - xpdf calculates nearly everything with doubles. Since ARMs are not equipped with a FPU, all doubles have been replaced with a C++ class "fouble" (fixed double), which operates on 32bit integers with fixed point arithmetic. This gave a speedup of up to 800% for image rendering. @@ -49,41 +56,25 @@ ToDo: in detail. - Links are currently simply ignored. Install: - - xpdf-1.00 - Get the tarball for xpdf, version 1.0, untar it and ./configure it. - (No special flags are needed for ./configure - it simply has to run) - - - qpdf - Make sure your QPEDIR / TMAKEPATH variables are correctly ! - - cd into the xpdf directory (xpdf-1.00) and untar the qpdf tarball. This - should create a subdirectory qpdf. - cd into this directory and start the script "./setup-qpdf". This - incorporates the above mentioned patches into xpdf. - - Now do a make. - - Copy the files qpdf, qpdf_icon.png and qpdf.desktop to the appropriate - directories on your iPaq or: - If you want a ipk, just run ./mkipkg + - Qpdf is now fully integrated into Opie. For compilation and installation + instructions see http://opie.handhelds.org. - compress / uncompress - If you run a normal familiar installation, it the standard gzip (I tested - 1.2.4-33 ipkg) can handle the compression format used in PDF files, when + If you run a normal familiar installation, the standard gzip (I tested + 1.2.4-33 ipkg) can handle the compression format used in PDF files, when called as uncompress. The BusyBox version of gzip can _not_ handle this old format. - If you do not have a working uncompress installed on your iPaq, you can - simply use the one in the contrib directory of the tarball (make uncompress - a link to compress). - [I could not find an official tarball for compress -- this is the SuSE - version cross-compiled for ARM] - + If you do not have a working uncompress installed on your iPaq, you could + simply use the old compress package. + (I could not find an official tarball for compress -- I used the SuSE + version cross-compiled for ARM for myself, but I will make an ipk soon) + Have fun ;) Robert (griebl@gmx.de)
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