Pdf reader, Evince working

Hello all Pdf sufferers,

I have built Evince 0.3.2 with poppler 0.4.0 (cairo) and it works! No
segfaults and renders every document I have tried, including Koen Kooi's
test documents.

Gpdf built with oe and the same development meta-gpe also works better
but is still prone to segfault, and is quite slow.

It seems Evince and Poppler are the way to go :)

Richard

Re: Pdf reader, Evince working

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:36:01PM +1030, Richard How wrote:
> Hello all Pdf sufferers,
> 
> I have built Evince 0.3.2 with poppler 0.4.0 (cairo) and it works! No
> segfaults and renders every document I have tried, including Koen Kooi's
> test documents.
> 
> Gpdf built with oe and the same development meta-gpe also works better
> but is still prone to segfault, and is quite slow.
> 
> It seems Evince and Poppler are the way to go :)
> 
Unfortuneately evince trys to load the whole document into memory, which
is all very well until I try and read some of my 120M PDF's 

But its good to know that it is now working better than ever, is this
with the bitstream fonts used as well?

G

ANN: gpe-conf 0.1.26 released

Hello!

I just finished the new 0.1.26 release of gpe-conf. It is already tagged in CVS
and available from the ftp server.

So what's new?

- Main window UI restructured to look more similar to the GPE PIM applications.
- Fixed a bug which caused the Look&Feel  applet to freeze.
- USB gadget mode selection applet by Philipp Zabel.
- Some minor improvements and bugfixes of gpe-sysinfo, moved to the utilities desk.
- Bugfixes and cleanup of the network applet.
- New Slovenian translation, some updated translations.
- Some more bugfixes and cleanups.

Enjoy!

Greetings

Florian

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Re: Re: bootsplash and default theme

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:42 +0200, Florian Boor wrote:
> I think that's pretty nice too... just do it!

Pushed. Along with a landscape version.

Rene

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Re: ANN: gpe-conf 0.1.26 released

Hi Florian

I would like to get more comprehensize and informative list timezones to 
gpe-conf time applet but I am not sure what
would be the best way to go. It seems that the nowadays preferred method 
would be to set TZ
variable to be any of the timezones listed in 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab (Europe/Berlin, Europe/Helsinki, etc...)
instead of using names like "EET", "GMT", "MET", "BT". For me it took 
some time to learn that I should select mystic word
"EET" for example as I live in Finland-

The problem is that for those to be functional, the actual zoneinfo 
files should be set somewhere, propably to /usr/share/zoneinfo
but they take quite a lot of space (1.9 MB) at least in my linux box.

Another possibility would be to just to try to set values like EET, MET, 
GMT and BT to TZ variable but instead of showing those directly show 
more descriptive name like these "Europe/Berlin".

The good thing in the first option is that in that we way we could also 
get the daylight saving information more easily.
If that is wanted to do with the second option, then we would need to 
find out a way how to generate that kind of info
automatically from somewhere so that it could be easily pasted to the 
code...

Do you have any kind of opinion of these?

Mika

[ANN] gpe-screenshot 0.4 released

I've just released GPE Screenshot 0.4 which is the first public release.

GPE Screenshot allows the user to save a screenshot to the local
filesystem or upload it to http://handhelds.org/scap/. Thanks go to Russ
Nelson for adding PNG upload support to the cgi scripts on
handhelds.org.

Screenshots are taken from the X server using some code from
gnome-screenshot which is part of gnome-utils. With minor modifications
to the source code it is, however, also possible to use external
applications such as fbgrab or import to grab screenshot images.

A screenshot of the main dialog can be found at [1], source code is
available from the usual place [2], a .bb is in OpenEmbedded already,
and binary packages for familiar will follow soon.

Rene

[1] http://handhelds.org/scap/port.15368.png
[2] ftp://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/gpe/source/
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Re: Pdf reader, Evince working

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:54:45 +0000
Graeme Gregory <dp <at> xora.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> Unfortuneately evince trys to load the whole document into memory, which
> is all very well until I try and read some of my 120M PDF's 

This is the downside, it is currently slow and uses too much memory.
One day I would like to write a simple gui to the poppler library and
ditch all the Gnome dependencies.

> But its good to know that it is now working better than ever, is this
> with the bitstream fonts used as well?

Yes bitstream fonts (Vera), it seems happy with both true type and type 1
fonts. Or any other fonts for that matter, it always outputs something.

Re: Re: bootsplash and default theme

Rene Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:42 +0200, Florian Boor wrote:
> 
>>I think that's pretty nice too... just do it!
> 
> 
> Pushed. Along with a landscape version.

Cool. Now that's in I think we should seriously consider making
Industrial the default theme for gpe-login and remove all the blueishness.

regards,

Koen

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gpe-mininet Makefile and GTKCFLAGS

Hi!

In the gpe-mininet Makefile I find this line:

GTKCFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 libmb`

build/Makefile.dpkg_ipkg contains:

GTKCFLAGS = $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0)

As the latter overwrites the first value, the build is missing the
libmb CFLAGS (same for the LDFLAGS) and fails when trying to build
with the cairo enabled version of gtk.
There are similar issues in other packages as well (next stop gpe-what).

Attached patch fixes the build for me. Does this look ok?

cheers
Philipp

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Re: gpe-mininet Makefile and GTKCFLAGS

Thanks for the patch.  This is fine; please go ahead and check it in.

p.

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:43 +0100, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In the gpe-mininet Makefile I find this line:
> 
> GTKCFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 libmb`
> 
> build/Makefile.dpkg_ipkg contains:
> 
> GTKCFLAGS = $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0)
> 
> As the latter overwrites the first value, the build is missing the
> libmb CFLAGS (same for the LDFLAGS) and fails when trying to build
> with the cairo enabled version of gtk.
> There are similar issues in other packages as well (next stop gpe-what).
> 
> Attached patch fixes the build for me. Does this look ok?
> 
> cheers
> Philipp