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happenstance

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« on: September 03, 2005, 02:32:00 PM »
Ive just been wondering about this because it would be really helpful for me. Is there a program for xbox that can view PDFs?
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LightningStruckMyXbox

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« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2005, 02:35:00 PM »
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LightningStruckMyXbox

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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2005, 02:36:00 PM »
n/m not for xbox
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2005, 02:39:00 PM »
I was just reading that the GBA add on can convert files into ebooks to read on the gba emu for xbox, does anyone know if that can convert pdfs?
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2005, 07:19:00 PM »
Sorry for bumping this old post, but at least I searched before I asked wink.gif

I also am looking for an app for the XboX that will read Txt, Pdf, Rtf, or NFO extensions.
I can convert myself, but is there anything out there for any of those formats?

Want to read some e-books from XboX
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2005, 06:24:00 AM »
Funnily enough, I'm looking for an Xbox pdf reader today as well.

I thought Xbox Media Centre could do this, but I've just checked and no joy  :( .

Pennst26, if you convert something to read pdfs, could you post it somewhere (xbins?)?

Thanks
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2005, 10:26:00 PM »
Wow its funny that you guys mention it, I was thinking of this myself the other day.  It'd be really cool to read a book on tv.  Like if you could just hit a button and it starts scrolling really slow, hit it again and it scrolls a little faster.  wonder if the media center folks would look at doing it.  It'd be just one more type of media that the best peice of software for xbox could help you with.
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2005, 10:30:00 PM »
QUOTE(Heet @ Oct 18 2005, 12:37 AM)
Wow its funny that you guys mention it, I was thinking of this myself the other day.  It'd be really cool to read a book on tv.  Like if you could just hit a button and it starts scrolling really slow, hit it again and it scrolls a little faster.  wonder if the media center folks would look at doing it.  It'd be just one more type of media that the best peice of software for xbox could help you with.
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Call me old fasioned, but I like reading my books out of, well books.   :P
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2005, 10:32:00 PM »
Ya I got you, but I have like 100 ebooks and probably another 100 pdf's.  Im not printing all of that out LOL.
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2005, 11:10:00 AM »
I would just like to put this topic in the recent list again.

Would be wonderful to have a homebrew pdf viewer for XBox.
Any developper up for the challenge ?

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The Zep Man

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« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2005, 01:02:00 AM »
People who really want this will install xDSL and use a PDF reader with it. dry.gif
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« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2005, 08:12:00 AM »
QUOTE(The Zep Man @ Oct 27 2005, 08:09 AM)
People who really want this will install xDSL and use a PDF reader with it. dry.gif
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2005, 11:31:00 PM »
I was funnily looking for pdf viwer too. I been reading many pdfs on my psp which is rather good cos of the high resoultion screen and the portability of the psp. Just wondering if i can do it on xbox.. I have a 1.6 xbox the crystal one, with softmod and i just recently (yesterday) install xDSL on it.....but the pdf viewer didnt seem to work for me, maybe its setup wrong?
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« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2005, 12:30:00 AM »
QUOTE(Ravo_5002 @ Nov 10 2005, 11:19 AM)
that wont work for v1.6 users... yet
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I don't know about xDSL, but Gentoo runs wonderfully on my 1.6.  (Not Gentoox, stock Gentoo using the new (experimental) xbox build profile.)

Edit:  Diz, have you managed to get X working yet?  (I'm not too familiar with xDSL, being a rather large Gentoo fan and a VERY long-time Linux user, I don't usually go for the easy-to-install Linux distros.)

BTW, to the person who linked to xpdf - Keep in mind that LONG before the Xbox existed (On the order of two decades), the primary method of providing a graphical user interface on Unix systems was called the X Windowing System.  Thus, many graphical programs for Unix/Linux-based systems have an "x" prefix.  (Nowadays, you'll see a lot of "g" and "k" prefixes for programs that run under the GNOME and KDE desktop environments which are layered over X.  "g" is also used as the prefix for a lot of programs that are associated with the GNU software project.)

This post has been edited by Entropy42: Nov 23 2005, 08:40 AM
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