I thought read also opened pdf's from the journal too. (Not sure if it saves what page you were on).
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > If possible, deploy epubs rather than pdfs. > > You can always convert an epub to a pdf. You can't easily do it the other > way round. Go ahead and search, the pdf format is a bane for people who > use ereaders. > > Also, epubs open from the Journal in the Read Activity, where kids can use > bookmarks. PDFs open in Browse and there's no bookmarking mechanism. So > you're halfway through a PDF, shut down your XO for the day, then the next > morning open the PDF back up and have to scroll to where you left off. Not > cool. > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Curt Thompson <curtathomp...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> In the short term, I just followed Anna's suggestion and put the PDFs in >> a directory I made "/var/www/html/science". I tested it out with the >> Browse activity in the XO-1 James is lending me as a client and it seems >> to work relatively well - opens in-browser, which is nice. >> >> Not super fast but the images/text load up within a few seconds and it's >> scrollable with the buttons near the monitor (once you click inside the >> PDF). I'm considering whether it's worth it to extract each page as an >> image and convert all these PDFs into essentially an HTML-based "e-book" >> to make it more responsive. >> >> In the long term, I'd like to be able to train teachers in how to add >> content. If we can send them a USB stick with PDFs, for example, it'd >> be nice for them to be able to simply copy it into place and enjoy the >> updated content. Would this be the case once I got Pathagar set up and >> working? >> >> I'll also work on documentation when I can. I started to write setup >> documentation but the online install info on the wiki is pretty good. >> What's missing (in my humble opinion) is what to do with XSCE once it's >> up and running. I'll try to make some time to document the things I >> learn as I go. >> >> Thanks for the help >> >> >> On 11/17/2013 12:05 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Pathagar is still a work in progress. I'm not sure if it can handle >> pdfs, >> >> though. Last I saw, it was just epubs. >> >> >> > By design, Pathagar will serve *any* kind of file. The file serving is >> > done via HTTP (Can be apache, nginx, or lighttpd, etc). Here is an >> > example of PDF: http://108.171.173.65/book/10/view and here's an >> > example of epub: http://108.171.173.65/book/8/view Pathagar itself >> > doesn't care about the file format, as long as the http server has a >> > way (MIME) to handle it. As far as the Pathagar software itself is >> > concerned, there are no showstopping bugs that I know of. >> > >> > A couple of notes on the *installation* of Pathagar, where we do have >> > a bunch of problems: >> > >> > 1) The *current* version of Pathagar is borked. I haven't gone back to >> > see where it fails or how, but there should be a prior version that >> > works. There is also a version (patch) that apparently fixes the book >> > edit and upload problem. I have not tested it. I hope someone else can >> > take a look? >> > >> > https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar/issues >> > >> > 2) There seem to be multiple deployment approaches. We have PIP, RPM, >> > fabric, and the good old way of installing and configuring by hand >> > (which is what I follow, because I haven't had the time to test the >> > other methods). At the OLPC SF Summit, Jerry told me that they have >> > the RPM part addressed, but the current bug (cannot add/edit books) >> > gets in the way. >> > >> > Hopefully the latest patch can address these things. >> > >> >> For your immediate purposes, I'd suggest `mkdir /var/www/html/science` >> and >> >> put the pdfs there. Then clients can go to >> http://schoolserver/science to >> >> download them. >> >> >> >> Anna >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Curt Thompson < >> curtathomp...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> So I've been tinkering around XSCE School Server for a while now - I >> >>> have it set up with Internet-in-a-box via USB drive and I spent a >> while >> >>> trying to get my laptop to work as AP/server. >> >>> >> >>> I've also been poking around looking for basic setup info. In >> >>> particular, I'm trying to upload these ~36 Science Textbook PDFs and >> I'm >> >>> not sure where to put them, if I should just be copying them to some >> >>> directory (etc/Moodle or etc/pathagar or /library/pathagar/media?) or >> >>> uploading them via one of these systems. Any advice on which method >> is >> >>> best? >> >>> >> >>> I've looked around the Wiki but I can't find anything like a basic >> setup >> >>> guide (such as a reference that could be used by teachers, students, >> >>> and/or volunteers in the field.) Is there such a guide? >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >
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