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#11
Originally Posted by jzencovich View Post
Kooda, I just use evince. What does PDF reader offer that Evince doesn't? I hope that the PDF reader is upgraded, but if not I'm fine with evince.
I like Evince but it doesn't open PDF files directly from the browser (you have to save them locally first, which is not always the most convenient option). Also, Evince is a little less stable and crashes when viewing large PDF files during zooming in or out or scrolling. Evince also takes longer to load/display/render many PDF files especially with images and I frequently see "Loading..." in Evince. But I still end up using it because the default PDF viewer on N800 lacks continuous page scrolling and PDF links while evince is great with those. Evince also has option to rotate right (akin to portrait mode) and when you view a PDF in rorated/landscape mode, Evince allows single finger touch scrolling through pages (right to left) like iPhone picture application.

If Evince becomes more stable and faster in OS2008, I would be very happy. I don't know if it will allow opening the PDF's in browser though...
 
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#12
Anything is possible

I'm sure it requires just a little editing somewhere to change the default loading app for a certain file extension. I'll look into it if I get a chance.

--Jon
 
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Originally Posted by jzencovich View Post
Anything is possible

I'm sure it requires just a little editing somewhere to change the default loading app for a certain file extension. I'll look into it if I get a chance.

--Jon
I was looking at this page for the Gnome version of Evince and if you look at item number 9 of this list, it says it doesn't allow browser plugin but then again, that is not the N800 version:
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/ComparingEvinceAcroread


Also, here is a page with bunch of PDF's that could make Evince cry and also could be used in testing the PDF reader that comes with N800/N810:
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Testing

Last edited by kooda; 2007-10-22 at 03:40.
 
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#14
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
I don't see any blue color on the links on the N800 whatsoever.
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
If it's such a problem, there's bound to be a bug on it. If not, I'll file one. FWIW, most Linux PDF readers also do not support hyperlinks within a document/table of contents.

Bug filed: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2150
I filed it against 4.0 in the hopes of getting it fixed before IT2008 is released. Might be too late for the first version.
Thanks zerojay. The links are actually on page 13 (Chapter 1 where page footer says Oracle Database Lite Concepts 1-1) in blue and not on page 3 of this PDF:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B...103/b28924.pdf

More example PDF's:
Here are more examples of documents with blue links that PDF reader on N800 completely ignores but they work fine in Adobe Reader on a PC:
Would it be possible for you to update your bug report to prevent any confusion?
 
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Im not to worried about a table of contents tab because evince does have a TOC. Also I say it's a slow but the manuals I work with get up to 50mb. So I understand that it gets a little slow at times, and I dont see anything better so far. It should run alot faster on ITOS2008.
 
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#16
I think it is important for the PDF Reader to save the reading pages of each PDF. It i s very inconvenient to remember page no and jump back to the page next time. Especially that I got many PDF have a fancy first page which need to more then 1 min. to render.

Besides, it will back great if it can provide some annotate function
 
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