UX suggestions for tabletReader

[Bogdan Cristea]

On Wednesday 02 May 2012 22:25:24 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > I would never propose it for PDF reading. Poppler and the rest of the
> > Okular libraries is probably perfect for that.
> > 
> >  To be honest, I'm not that familiar with the internals of ebook
> >  readers but> 
> > there is one thing that struck me when I read about the epub format:
> > It's
> > intended to be relayouted on the fly for different screen sizes or
> > orientations (landscape / portrait).
> > 
> > The Calligra office engine can do that quite efficiently on even
> > thousand
> > pages long documents but I don't know if the Okular engine can do it. My
> > impression was that okular is mostly for fixed formats where the page is
> > fixed as is is and cannot change.  But that impression could be wrong of
> > course.
> 
> Ah okay, that makes sense :). I don't have any experience with ebooks, so I
> don't know how well the Okular libraries handle them. However, reading PDFs
> is probably at least as important a usecase as ebooks for our reader. So in
> case the Calligra Words engine actually handles ebooks better than Okular,
> it would make sense to use different backends for the two file types.
> @Bogdan: Would that be possible for your reader?

Everything is possible, but I need to know in what format the data to be 
displayed is presented by the backend. Currently only pixmaps are used, even 
if for chm is not the most efficient way.

> 
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Bogdan