Ands-pdf - PDF-Viewer für den NDS

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First, on the PDF compatibility side, I've managed to solve the issue of non-embedded fonts not displaying. The program now uses a set of built-in fonts; so it might not always display exactly how the author wanted it to if the font is something obscure. Or dingbats, which I stripped out because it was simply too big to include.

Please please be sure to message me if PDF's don't work now, I have no test pdf's that break that don't have large images at this point.

On the features side, I've added a 'preview' button that displays a 'mini' view of the document. The button is the only filled in icon on the small status bar at the bottom; it looks like a bulls-eye. I'll change the icon later to something that makes sense.

If you just tap the mini-image, it will pan to put the point you clicked in the upper-left corner.

If you draw a line with the stylus, it will adjust the zoom on the document to fill the screens with the size of the line you drew. Hopefully this is more intuitive in practice than it is in description. For instance, if you draw a line from the left to right of the document, it will zoom to fit the width of the document to the screen. If you draw a line from the top to the bottom of the document, it will zoom out to fit the height of the document to the screen.

I'd really like comments on the GUI functionality. Does it do what you expect? Especially if it doesn't, tell me why and what you expect it to do. Ideally I'd have it so the user can not read any instructions and be up and running with this.

I've also provided the ability to change files. This hasn't been extensively tested, and there may be memory leaks in it, so beware of that. If you hit 'start', it should pop up with the file browser.

Another new tool is the console, which you can layer over the screen with the 'Select' button. This should make the 'debug' builds not necessary so I will not release anymore of those.

Lastly, rendering should be signifigantly quicker now. Still could be better, but for now it seems usable.

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A new release! This one is mostly a bug fix and a clean up of all the old functionality. This includes:

Made the zoom functionality more intuitive based on feedback I got from alot of you. Now you draw a box around what you want to see on the DS. It will use the current orientation and come up with a zoom that fits that box to the DS screen. Try it out, if you don't get it or plain don't like it, leave me some feedback.
Made the screen dim whenever you go to open a new file or you open the mini document view.
Changed the old god-awful icon to the new god-awful icon for the mini document view. Its now a magnifying glass.
Made the current location on the page reset when you go forward or backward a page.
The page number now appears in the little bar on the bottom/left.
Thats all the big stuff, and covers alot of ground in terms of the feedback I've been getting.

The controls are largely unchanged, but I'll post them here for completeness sake:
'X' changes the orientation of the page. Starts off in 'book' style orientation.
Right and Left shoulder go to the next or previous page.
Start brings up the dialog to open a new file.
Select toggles whether or not to show debug messages. Most users won't want this.
'B' resets the zoom to the default value of 100%.
One of the peices of feedback I've gotten has to do with this control layout. I want to get a good feel for what people think would be the best way to go on this before I just start changing stuff. What do you think the controls should be? What other controls would you want to see added?

The next major feature, and major release, is going to involve a reader mode. As it is, this pdf reader is great for viewing and looking at PDF's, and perhaps even grabbing some key facts from it, but noone is going to read a 100 page e-book in it. You'd get arthritis from so much scrolling and the rendering is so slow as to make it really annoying.

Instead, the plan is to allow you to be able to choose a viewing mode where you can display the textual blocks of a PDF document on its own screen. You'll lose the formatting from the PDF document, but then you'll be able to fit the text in the DS nicely. And if you want to see the formating, just pop back into the normal viewing mode and you'll have the experience that exists now!

Would this be something you'd want? Leave a comment if you have ideas on how to make this feature work like you'd want or if you just think its a good idea.

What's New?

* Made the zoom functionality more intuitive based on feedback I got from alot of you. Now you draw a box around what you want to see on the DS. It will use the current orientation and come up with a zoom that fits that box to the DS screen. Try it out, if you don't get it or plain don't like it, leave me some feedback.
* Made the screen dim whenever you go to open a new file or you open the mini document view.
* Changed the old god-awful icon to the new god-awful icon for the mini document view. Its now a magnifying glass.
* Made the current location on the page reset when you go forward or backward a page.
* The page number now appears in the little bar on the bottom/left.

Changelog from 1.3 to 1.4:
Features:

* New viewing mode. This is the 'reader' mode. More on that later.
* D-pad now pans the screen. I got alot of requests for this one!
* File browser is now filtered; will only show PDF files. Note that it will show folders that don't have PDF files in them.
* You can now adjust the backlit brightness by holding down Select + Up/Down arrows.
* You can now cancel out of the file browser with 'B', or by clicking the file browser button again.
* Rendering is getting progressively faster.
* Mini-help screen and info screen on startup.
* Added splash screen. If you find this annoying, remove the splash files in the FONTS folder, and it will bypass this step.
* Fonts are external now. This gives us alot more memory to play with at the expense of higher load times on certain PDF's. (Note: I took out the dingbats font. If anyone as a PDF that has dingbats, I will hand out that file too... It is much larger though).

Bug Fixes:

* You can no longer scroll off the bottom of the file browser.
* Some memory issues resolved that led to instability.
* The zoom-tool used to mess up if you clicked it more than once. Doesn't anymore.
* Tons of other stuff I'm sure...