What, Browse loses the reading position for a PDF? Let's fix Browse? ;-) On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:54:22AM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: > 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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