Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:02:13 +0300 From: "Ivan Levchenko" <levchenko.i@gmail.com> To: "Henry Lenzi" <henry.lenzi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ebook reader Message-ID: <e39dd5bb0609060502x5379cbai409b4e57993b58f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0609051448m24552082la5d332ec6376efb3@mail.gmail.com> References: <e39dd5bb0609050742w720a4eccja91836ee80ec18c0@mail.gmail.com> <8b4c81f0609051448m24552082la5d332ec6376efb3@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks a lot, will definately give them a try. On 9/6/06, Henry Lenzi <henry.lenzi@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/5/06, Ivan Levchenko <levchenko.i@gmail.com> 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
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