[Owncloud] eBook Reader App

[Frank Karlitschek]

Thats a very good point and idea.


Frank


On 21.08.2012, at 16:00, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:

> 
> Maybe this is good point in time to bring the various viewer's together under one hood.
> The pdf viewer and odf viewer introduce almost the same snippets regarding e.g. inserting tags 
> to display the rendering content, action buttons, register on click handler.
> (The image viewer to some extend as well)
> 
> In addition it would be great to find a mechanism to load the javascript and css files to some kind of sandbox
> as they could interfere with owncloud. iFrames shoud do the trick here - maybe someone has a better idea.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> Am Dienstag, dem 21.08.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Duarte Velez Grilo:
>> It looks like so: 
>> http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/source/browse/#svn/trunk/epubtools/epubjs
>> 
>> Em 21-08-2012 14:38, Alessandro Cosentino escreveu:
>>> iirc we use pdf.js to render pdf. Is there something similar for other
>>> formats, like epub?
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Priyanka,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> this sounds great. I can try to mentor you if you agree.
>>>> 
>>>> The idea of the eBook app is that it show all the pdf (and perhaps other formats too) that are uploaded to ownCloud in a nice interface.
>>>> For the beginning would be a simple list. Cooler would be to have it as thumbnails in the future.
>>>> We want to have a class in the ownCloud core than can generate thumbnails for different filetypes anyways.
>>>> 
>>>> If the user clicks on a pdf than it open with the existing pdf viewer that we already have in ownCloud for reading.
>>>> 
>>>> Cool addition features would be to share it with others (MTGap has a nice sharing API to do that)
>>>> or we could add a button that sends the pdf by email to a Kindle or converts it to different formats.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Frank
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 21.08.2012, at 14:40, Priyanka <priyanka.menghani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wanted to know if anybody is working on the eBook reader app for the Owncloud project. I am really intrested in working on it. It would also be great if someone would like to mentor me, or if anybody had some suggestions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have previously participated in SoK 2011 and worked under Owncloud. This year I was selected for GSoC under openSUSE.
>>>>> I have good experience with PHP, MySQL and HTML but am flexible with learning new things as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks & Regards
>>>>> Priyanka M
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