[RELEASE] Bookr V8.1 to view PDF, TXT, PalmDoc, DJVU, CHM/HTML files

[nct2k]

Hi all,

I've built Bookr V8.1 with following changes:

- Fixed crash when opening PDF file which has many pages.
- Enhance MuPDF, uses less memory.
- Merged with latest source code from CVS with following enhancements:
+ DJVU support by Yang.Hu
+ Control/GUI enhancements by Christian Payeur

Links are in enclosed file.

Cheers,

[androxp]

it will be possible make that this software can open *.rgo files????

this format is great for mobile devices like cellphones and pda.

thnks fot your job!

(sorry for my english :P)

[Psypher]

Great release, nct2k!

Thanks for updating this awesome app.

[dan369]

Thanks, I like doing a bit of reading on the go. I still got BookR on my PSP

[RyanF]

Thanks for the update.

[M33_User]

Let Me Help You

Bookr V8.1 - a document reader for the Sony PSP

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?obmaczmkgom

Source code:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ddngmjnxmmd

[cory1492]

Thanks nct2k I had completely forgotten mentioning CVS until this came up on PDRoms today, glad to see you managed to include the extras from there.

One question, I suck at cpp so when I tried to compile it with the slim flag I ran into so many errors - is slim's extra accounted for in your build? Make that two I guess, if you run across anything that looks like it would cause pagination issues in txt/pdb when loading bookmarks it occasionally has an issue with being 3-5 lines off the actual page.

[niobe]

great, but I found one error - after finished application do not remember last adjusted font

[nct2k]

Hi cory1492,

What slim flag did you use?

If errors related to FREE TYPE, please replace -Ic:/pspsdk/psp/include/freetype2 with -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/include/freetype2 in Makefile.

Hope this help.

[TheKing]

Nice upate. While you're at it, can you fix the bug which always missed the last text line?

[sd6719]

nct2k
Is mod Bookr sd6719.
Reads txt, pdf, djvu, fb2, rtf
src on h__p://sd6719.narod.ru
Can there you will find something interesting

[nickxab]

nice app

[nct2k]

Originally Posted by sd6719

nct2k
Is mod Bookr sd6719.
Reads txt, pdf, djvu, fb2, rtf
src on h__p://sd6719.narod.ru
Can there you will find something interesting

Thanks sd6719,

I'll check and apply your enhancements.

[batanen]

Could it be possible to switch O and X buttons? X for select and O for cancel. Could you also do something about PSP's screensaver? It's a little annoying while you're reading and after a while screen gets darker so you have to press some button. Screen won't stay bright long enough when reading with analog stick. Thank you for updating!

[nct2k]

Originally Posted by batanen

Could it be possible to switch O and X buttons? X for select and O for cancel.

In the option menu, please change the "Menu control style" to Western.

[batanen]

Originally Posted by nct2k

In the option menu, please change the "Menu control style" to Western.

Ok. Thank you for the info. I was wondering why it worked differently than I had used to.

[Korlithiel]

Now if only this project ever got merged with LiteMP3, then I don't think my PSP would see any gaming again since I would spend too much time reading.

[brethren]

don't know why cory didn't get back to you but try adding this to your makefile

PSP_LARGE_MEMORY=1

it allows the slim to use all available memory but is ignored by the psp fat......the magic of custom firmware

[cory1492]

I didn't get back because I don't come to QJ very often :P
nct2k:
yes, that is the make flag that tells custom firmware to allow slim extended memory
PSP_LARGE_MEMORY=1
Today it builds just fine with that flag, maybe the problem was somewhere in the sdk then...? Any rate, I was asking if you accounted for it/used it because I think slim web browser uses extended memory to speed itself up.

Solving the freetype issue was relatively simple, and indeed I did modify the mupdf makefile to use

CFLAGS=-G0 -Wall -O2 -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/include/freetype2
CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/include/freetype2

and in the main makefile

INCDIR = mupdf/include djvu/libdjvupsp $(PSPDIR)/include/freetype2

along with correcting a cp somewhere that was messed up. I don't have cvs on this OS so I can't visually see the files I've changed, just going by memory on stuff I tinkered with last fall.

As mentioned above, that was a bug I had noticed too - it doesn't remember to use custom selected font on reloads. Also, disabling home button (by removing exit callback) or adding exit stuff to home->exit callback seems to be a missing point/problem for many users.

sd6719:
I definitely like your mod build

[ziobleed]

hi,your mod is great,chm conversion works very well.
can i suggest to add a very low screen luminosity setting?
and a zoom level continuos for pdf?

zb

[nct2k]

Originally Posted by cory1492

As mentioned above, that was a bug I had noticed too - it doesn't remember to use custom selected font on reloads.

This is a bug from latest CVS source, along with crash on startup if we enable "Autoload last file" but the file does not exist. Will try to fix.

Originally Posted by cory1492

Also, disabling home button (by removing exit callback) or adding exit stuff to home->exit callback seems to be a missing point/problem for many users.

Sorry I don't get you about this. Currently user can exit by either choosing Exit menu or Home button then exit right?

Originally Posted by cory1492

PSP_LARGE_MEMORY=1

INCDIR = mupdf/include djvu/libdjvupsp $(PSPDIR)/include/freetype2

I'll add those to Makefile in next release, thanks!

I heard that V8.1 cannot launch PSP Internet Browser, is it true? Last time I reserved 7MB for non-heap, and allocated 6MB in heap for the Browser when launching. I guess that the Browser will use both of 7MB non-heap and 6MB heap. This worked on my PSP Fat, but maybe Slim's Browser needs more than that. Could anyone help me to do tuning for those settings?

(V8.0 only had 8MB heap 'cause I cannot increase this value to make the Browser work. Seems like sceKernelAllocateVpl allocates memory in non-heap, am I right? That's why I changed to malloc in V8.1)

[Cevius]

Definitely some massive improvements since the last version! Great work

I noticed that its also not saving the Font Justification settings, and defaults to enabled. Its also not jumping to the most recent bookmark on loading, which I think one of the old versions used to do.

I've noticed with alot of the plain text files I use, keep all the text on the left hand side of the screen, wasting 3/5ths of the available space on pure white. Would it be possible to have a setting that Ignores line end characters, and just replaces them with a space, or some other character? That way all the page is being used at once.

The screen saver issue might become a problem if there's more text on the screen and it takes longer to read... Some sort of random idle process that wiggles something automatically every 15-30 seconds to keep it active?

Ignoring those things, this is one of the most functional and awesome apps for the PSP ever released, and i use it more than I play games. keep up the good work

[cory1492]

I almost forgot to come back to the thread, sorry it's been so long.

Originally Posted by nct2k

This is a bug from latest CVS source, along with crash on startup if we enable "Autoload last file" but the file does not exist. Will try to fix.

In bookr.cpp I added a 'dirty' fix (there is probably a better way, I am not good with cpp) to main to just check if the file exists to avoid the crash (I never did look into saving the font though):

static int fileExists(string& file)
{
	FILE* f = fopen(file.c_str(), "r");
	if (f == NULL) {
		return NULL;
	}
	fclose(f);
	return 1;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
	BKDocument* documentLayer = 0;
	FZScreen::setupCallbacks();
	FZScreen::open(argc, argv);
	FZScreen::setupCtrl();
	BKUser::init();
	FZScreen::setSpeed(BKUser::options.pspMenuSpeed);
	FZ_DEBUG_SCREEN_INIT

	BKLayer::load();
	bkLayers layers;
	BKFileChooser* fs = 0;
	BKColorChooser* cs = 0;
	BKColorSchemeManager* csm = 0;
	BKPageChooser* ps = 0;
	BKMainMenu* mm = BKMainMenu::create();
	layers.push_back(BKLogo::create());
	layers.push_back(mm);

	FZScreen::dcacheWritebackAll();

	if( BKUser::options.loadLastFile ) // loads the last file used
	{
		string s = BKBookmarksManager::getLastFile();

		if( s.substr(0,5) == "ms0:/" && fileExists(s) ) // small check to see the file exists, probably much better ways to do this
		{
				// clear layers
				bkLayersIt it(layers.begin());
				bkLayersIt end(layers.end());

				while (it != end) {
					(*it)->release();
					++it;
				}

				layers.clear();

Sorry I don't get you about this. Currently user can exit by either choosing Exit menu or Home button then exit right?

When exit by home, last position in current file is not stored. I just disabled home button in my build (by commenting out exit_callback in fzscreenpsp.cpp and probably calls to it elsewhere) so I wouldn't make the mistake of exiting this way, but it should be possible to use the exit callback to do the save too.

[mafioso73]

When Bookr displays PDFs that have been created from tex/dvi files, there's a problem with italics: Italics will be where they shouldn't be, or non-italics where there should be italics. This generally only happens after a while, i.e. after I have turned several pages. It seems that it's particularly frequent after I went backwards through the pages, but when it has happened once, I won't get rid of it any more (or only temporarily, when I reload the document).
It would be great if this issue would be addressed in a future version of Bookr.

[Gefa]

Hi.
I don't know if this homebrew already support this format, but would be nice if you could add the support for .lit files. More or less, they are like PDFs (being that bookr doesn't support them, everytime I have to convert my lit files in pdf... it's very boring )