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TI-Nspire / Re: nPDF - A document viewer for the Nspire
« on: May 05, 2015, 09:26:47 am »
Awesome!

I used the program extensively for my open book tests in lieu of bringing my textbooks,  because I don't own the digital iterations of my textbooks. nPDF is fairly snappy when the calculator is overclocked.

However, it often runs completely out of memory after opening, closing, zooming and page-turning of many docs (or large docs), at the point which PDFs no longer open. For some reason, the memory does not recover after the PDFs have been opened. I do not know how to fix this issue short of resetting the calc and reinstalling ndless (a minor annoyance). If there is a way to clear the memory without resetting the calc, I would love to know! :)

I have a few ideas for the project that I might try to implement this summer. One would be a hotkey to make the screen black, to save battery power/prevent people from seeing the contents of your screen. Another would be the ability to view the current/total page.

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TI-Nspire / Re: nPDF - A document viewer for the Nspire
« on: March 20, 2015, 04:27:19 pm »
Hello! I'm a new user, just wanted to register to say thanks for all the work put into this app and to help out with development! This is one of the most valuable utilities for the Nspire. I hope to help find and fix any bugs :D I am on 3.9 with ndless.

I have noticed some minor speed issues and random slowdowns after excessive page browsing, zooming, and opening of different PDFs. I assume these are exceptions caused by running out of memory? After using it for a while, I got scared when I tried to open a PDF again, and the calc couldn't recognize it. It no longer recognized any .tns file, actually... even though ndless was still installed  ???. A reset and reinstallation of ndless fixed it, however.

Also, nPDF did cause a crash that uninstalled ndless. I'm sure all of these issues could be addressed in the future. There are occasional force closes of PDFs, but they simply need to be reopened. Sometimes the "go-to page" dialog doesn't appear but it still takes input. You have to be very slow and cautious with nPDF, and wait for it to work, or risk having a crash/error. Treat it with respect and it will respect you.

That's all I have for now  :) I submitted a pull request on the GitHub to fix a very minor error with the numpad scrolling.

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