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.pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« on: January 21, 2013, 07:55:00 am »
Hello guys,

Here I am again with a TI-Nspire CX question:

Is it already possible to open .pdf documents and preform a search inside the document on my TI-Nspire CX?

~Anna

(sorry again for my English...)

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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2013, 10:12:36 am »
You could get mviewer on your calculator and then convert the pdf into png, jpeg or bmp, and then send the picture to your calculator
You won’t be able to search it, though. Although this sounds similar to a recent post by someone who wanted to search a pdf during a test in order to cheat

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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2013, 10:39:21 am »
You could get mviewer on your calculator and then convert the pdf into png, jpeg or bmp, and then send the picture to your calculator
I already have Mviewer, but thanks.

Although this sounds similar to a recent post by someone who wanted to search a pdf during a test in order to cheat
That's not me...

I have also heard of running linux on the Nspire.
Could you run a (custom) .pdf reader on linux on the Nspire? Maybe that could work?

~Anna


(as usual: sorry for my English ;D)
« Last Edit: January 21, 2013, 10:41:44 am by Anna »

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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2013, 10:44:06 am »
I think it'd be possible to run a pdf viewer on nspire, but it would be very hard to write one.
And your english is OK, no need to apologize :)
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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2013, 01:33:45 pm »
If searching isn't that important and you need pictures, you could save it as a picture and view it with mviewer (as mentioned above).
If you only need the text, you could copy the text to a .txt file and open and search that with nTxt (by me).
If you need both, you could use Linux. I think someone said that there are existing pdf viewers which shouldn't need modifications to run on calculator Linux. You could ask in the Linux help thread.

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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2014, 06:34:05 am »
You can now just convert your images and PDF files online :
http://tiplanet.org/forum/editgx.php

You don't need Ndless anymore ;)
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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2014, 06:36:37 am »
don't we have nPDF now?
or is that not jet realeased?
« Last Edit: February 24, 2014, 06:38:49 am by floris497 »

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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2014, 07:29:26 am »
Yes, but nPDF requires ndless, which only works on OS 3.1...
My calculator programs
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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2014, 08:33:49 am »
For the moment the first public nPDF build is a great achievement, but is neither stable, nor user friendly.
We've waiting for the next update.

And even if Ndless 3.2.4 was being released, it would probably get blocked by TI again in a couple of months.
In the current context, nPDF cannot be a long term solution.
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Re: .pdf and TI-Nspire CX?
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2014, 03:52:35 pm »
I think the first version of npdf is great! When do you think would be published the second version?
 
I have seen that the library of mupdf is used. Is it possible to get the source code? I have downloaded it from the normal webpage, but if i compile the file docviewer.h  of npdf, i get the error that the file memory.h doesn't exist. For the compilation i use "ndless-v3.1-beta-r848-sdk". Maybe someone can help me.
 
Thank you in advance!