From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 12:02:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4510416A4DD for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from levchenko.i@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA4743D5C for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:02:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from levchenko.i@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so2508175uge for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:02:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Biu/Z9LHXGFoDcIfCV0s0g028oRaQE/WKs7G7NAG/U89Wo7xQBTJLC2iIwRm2oQdUT1LqfK8HHiayka9iI+qVKYgHGjnvob1eiZiykAE2juVqZMzSURyMLUyApOkq0x6JYpfZK0FGcIwWERksJs7UnpneUbgjqIJQlRP4I8U2mw= Received: by 10.66.221.6 with SMTP id t6mr1222818ugg; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.239.8 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:02:13 +0300 From: "Ivan Levchenko" To: "Henry Lenzi" In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0609051448m24552082la5d332ec6376efb3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8b4c81f0609051448m24552082la5d332ec6376efb3@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ebook reader X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:02:18 -0000 Thanks a lot, will definately give them a try. On 9/6/06, Henry Lenzi wrote: > On 9/5/06, Ivan Levchenko wrote: > > Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? > > something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windows? > > > > I don't know what those are, since I don't use Windows. > For ebooks, there are a variety of choices. These choices depend on > the format of the ebook. Note that PDB files are proprietary and who > know how they're specified...Which means for PDB files, I can't offer > any solution. > All this stuff is in ports: > > Type of file Solution > ----------------- ------------ > > PDF epdfviewer, kpdf, gv, > xpdf, acrobat, gpdf > PostScript (PS) gv, ggv (?) > dvi probably xdvi > chm xchm > djvu djvulibre, JavaDjVu > > A note on djvu: although djvulibre is in /usr/ports/graphics, I could > not get the viewer (djview) to work properly. Two solutions are: 1) > grab the tarball and compile it yourself (in, say, /opt) - very simple > to do, just read the INSTALL file; 2) Install the FreeBSD official JDK > package and make your file manager use JavaDjVu associated with djvu > files - remember to move the jar (IIRC) to the directory where you > store your djvu files. > > Hope this helps. > Cheers, > Henry Lenzi > -- Best Regards, Ivan Levchenko levchenko.i@gmail.com