Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: It is educational to look at memory use in the pc when that pdf is loaded. Evince here is using 600meg do you have space for such objects on these little toys try something like diva so you dont suck the resources dry on the client Please

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Oct 3, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: Diva was announced here of 6th of June https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1106L=CODE4LIBT=0F=S=P=27064 The clever part is you only send the visible part at the scale they are viewing so little excess bandwidth. For online document

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Hankinson
On 2011-10-03, at 11:29 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Very interesting, and thank you for bringing it to my attention. It seems it relies on a technology that reads and chunks up image files. Alas, I have PDFs. Moreover, I really want people to be able to print the entire documents. I

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Parker, Anson (adp6j)
So this is awesome, does it in fact work with PDF's or not, and if not does anyone have any similar tools recommended for pdfs ap On 10/3/11 11:12 AM, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: Diva was announced here of 6th of June

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Tom Keays
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm one of the developers of Diva. I noticed that you've been getting your files from the Internet Archive. They also have the full high-quality JPEG and JPEG2000 images available.

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Hankinson
It doesn't work with PDFs, since it needs to create a tiled TIFF image for each page. I don't know of anything similar for PDFs, since they're not really designed to render a portion of the document without downloading the entire thing. You can convert PDF pages to images, though... :)

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Brenner, Aaron L
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Hankinson I don't know of anything similar for PDFs, since they're not really designed to render a portion of the document without downloading the entire thing. The linearized form of

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread Tom Keays
Another idea, if you are looking for an app-based rather than web-based reader is VuDroid, which supports both PDF and DjVu formats. http://code.google.com/p/vudroid/ I suggest it, not because I use it but because, at least in the Open Library version of the book's record,

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

2011-10-03 Thread KREYCHE, MICHAEL
, October 03, 2011 3:33 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva] Another idea, if you are looking for an app-based rather than web-based reader is VuDroid, which supports both PDF and DjVu formats. http://code.google.com/p/vudroid/ I suggest it, not because I use