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IDEA: The Holy Grail of text reading on a PC
Ruffnekk:
What kind of documents should this reader be able to display? Plain text only or other formats as well?
urlwolf:
I would *LOVE* an app like that displaying pdfs and html at least. Other than adobe, there is no pdf scrolling apps that I know off. and I do use opera for HTML. This would be a killer app. I'd be willing to pay top donationCoder credits to whoever gets this done (if it's possible at all!).
rjbull:
smooth scrolling text reader on PC/Windows
-MerleOne (December 05, 2006, 05:08 AM)
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There is/was one... but it's DOS, from 1989! PC Magazine's SMOOTH.COM, from before the days they started charging. Obviously won't read (in the sense I think you mean) PDFs or HTML, though you could try reducing PDF to plain text with XPDF and HTML to plain text with {insert your choice of tag stripper here} But then, being an old-time DOS person, that's the way I think...
f0dder:
It's perfectly possible to do even under windows, but it would require double-buffering (ie: don't draw directly to the visible surface, but draw to an off-screen surface and flip to visible when all drawing is done) - and it might require using DirectDraw (dunno if GDI bitblit is synced to refresh).
Ruffnekk:
I have been fiddling with GDI+ and DirectDraw, but getting a PDF file to show and scroll it smoothly is not a simple quest *G*
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