ebook reader

[Ivan Levchenko]

Thanks a lot, will definately give them a try.

On 9/6/06, Henry Lenzi <henry.lenzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/06, Ivan Levchenko <levchenko.i at 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
>


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Best Regards,

Ivan Levchenko
levchenko.i at gmail.com