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Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: woverin on January 26, 2005, 11:10:38 am

I used hentges rom based on OZ 3.5.2 on Collie
I can't find any working pdf & chm  reader.
I tried qpdf2 but got a problem with qpe-base depedence. So, I opened Package Manager(AQPkg) to find qpe-base to install but it did not in the list.  So where is it ?

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: freizugheit on January 26, 2005, 08:21:48 pm

Use ABC chm converter,http://www.thebeatlesforever.com/processtext/abcchm.html, convert chm files into html files and use browser to read.

I hope this interim solution will help.

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: woverin on January 26, 2005, 09:07:24 pm

Thanks for your solution but I do really need need a real chm reader eg. xchm   I hate to convert 500mb of ebook and end up with cripple format.

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: woverin on January 26, 2005, 10:44:12 pm

I found qpdf2 package from opie feed. Installation went without any error but when i launched qpdf, it complained about missing libt1.so which i can't find in the feed. Anyone have a hint ?

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: systemparadox on January 27, 2005, 10:46:54 am

the package is called 't1lib' for some reason. install that, link that (if needed), then try qpdf2. There has been quite a lot of discussion about a qpdf and trying to get any pdf reader working, but as far as I know no-one has got round to sorting one out, however:

I recently installed t1lib and qpdf2 and have found that it does actually work. It sigsevs if you start it using the icon, but I found that it worked fine when you open a file on the docs tab with it. Then I told it to open the last pdf on each boot and now it works fine from the icon. So- it may be a little buggy and you may have to go round sometimes, but it is possible to use it.

Hope this is useful
Simon

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: Greg2 on January 27, 2005, 12:19:38 pm

After you install the 't1lib', open your 'qpdf.desktop' file and change the line

'Exec=qpdf' to 'Exec=qpdf -d 0'

Credit goes to Teletubbie for posting this fix.

Greg

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: woverin on January 27, 2005, 09:48:32 pm

Finally, I found the problem. t1lib in hesges feed is broken. It complained about missing t1lib.so.5
I tried to change setting in ipkg.conf to oz.pdai.org (mirror) and it worked.

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: ksignorini on January 29, 2005, 08:29:05 pm

Yay!  I was looking for this fix, too!

Kent!

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: Harlequin on February 01, 2005, 05:48:51 am

Hello,

I'm getting this complaint too, and I can't find t1lib on pdai.org.  What's the full url you added to ipkg.conf?  Or if it has been removed from the pdai mirror, does anyone have a copy of it?


Thanks,

Harry.

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: systemparadox on February 07, 2005, 10:14:20 am

http://oz.pdai.org/official/unstable/3.5.2....0.2-r0_arm.ipk (http://oz.pdai.org/official/unstable/3.5.2/feed/libs/t1lib_5.0.2-r0_arm.ipk)

It's there, and I think that's the one I used (which worked).

Check that the libs feed is added to the servers list (some are not there by default, though I don't think libs is one of them).

Hope this helps
Simon

Title: Need Pdf & Chm Reader
Post by: Mongoosefred on March 14, 2005, 06:59:05 pm

Just got qpdf working on hentges.
Just remove then reinstall the t1lib and libfreetype6 packages and then qpdf seems to work.
Hope this helps....