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sebio
06-02-2007, 13:06
hellow everyone! now that my D2 can play Flash documents,could it be possible to read DOC files with a flash program? or a Doc to flash convertor?

thank you guys!

greetz![thumbsup]
seifip
06-05-2007, 14:57
Right now, we are thinking of Flashpaper support on D2...
nila
06-05-2007, 15:21
seifip - if you're one of the developers of the Cowon firmware please consider some of the more basic usability features in the wish list before worrying about reading word documents.

I bought the Cowon D2 as a mp3 player primarily, secondly as a video and pic viewer and never as a word document reader.

Sure its a great feature I'd love it to have, but there are a lot more important features/bugs/etc that need sorting for the primary reason that 90% of people are buying this player.
I really doubt anyones walking into the shop looking for a 2.5" screen to read word documents with - pretty sure they're all after an mp3 player.

If on the other hand you mean your one of the developers of Flashpaper then please go for it as you obviously cant fix any of the other issues with the player :)
W33nie
06-05-2007, 16:54
I don't think he works for cowon
nila
06-05-2007, 17:01
Shame ;) I know the creative sales rep used to follow and participate in the creative nomad forum.
It was great getting interaction with the actual company like that.
seifip
06-06-2007, 09:58
Sadly I'm not a cowon employee :( I would impliment most of the features already if I was ;)
tehownt
06-07-2007, 06:30
Actually, a flash pdf reader would be more useful.
seifip
06-07-2007, 11:14
2tehownt: Flashpaper = pdf in flash ;)
tehownt
06-08-2007, 04:38
2tehownt: Flashpaper = pdf in flash ;)
Ok, nice, I thought it was something else (I'm waiting for the official 2.50).

Something that reads PDF/PS is indeed the most useful thing to have, nobody really needs .doc reading capabilities, you can export it in PDF which is a more "common" format (Open standard soon to be made ISO'd).
Reading .doc doesn't give you much advantages over reading PDF, especially on a portable device, unless you want to be able to edit the file, which isn't something you'd want to do on a 2.5inch screen...

Anyways I'll check out Flashpaper when 2.50 final is out.

Thanks for the tip.
neoxerxes
06-08-2007, 07:50
I would like to know if flashpaper or something that allows you to view DOC/PDF files on the D2 would actually format text correctly so it would be viewable and not a mess. I mean, with such a tiny screen, just convert the DOC/PDF to a TXT file, and then run it through a text formatter. That's what I do. I can't imagine text being any easier to read than what TXT files currently offer.
Lixtetraxx
06-08-2007, 09:21
I think you'r right Neoxerxes but if we coulds support PDF or even RTF with the ability to read half page at the time it would probably be interesting. I am reading everyday on my Cowon since I got it and I think that RTF support, at least, would offer us more possibility and less headache in rendering txt files...[biggrin]

For the Flashpaper thing I have search almost everywhere on the net and found almost nothing exept one guy that have simplify the .SWF viewer but it don't work in the D2. After I even try to create a slideshow of a plain text book with different font size and a basic B&W comic book but the result was disapointing![cry]

Well...I still hope...[biggrin]
Sorry for my bad english.
Maxwell Smart
06-08-2007, 12:38
I can't imagine text being any easier to read than what TXT files currently offer.

I can. [smile]

They could normalize two or more sequential whitespace characters to one space instead of zero.

They could render a backslash (Unicode's "REVERSE SOLIDUS") as a backslash, instead of a Won sign.
seifip
06-09-2007, 10:15
I would like to know if flashpaper or something that allows you to view DOC/PDF files on the D2 would actually format text correctly so it would be viewable and not a mess. I mean, with such a tiny screen, just convert the DOC/PDF to a TXT file, and then run it through a text formatter. That's what I do. I can't imagine text being any easier to read than what TXT files currently offer.

http://luar.com.hk/blog/?p=664 - FlashPaper + Nokia 6680 - The screen is much smaller at worse than D2's but the text is much better readable and don't forget about the possibility to embed pictures etc. which comes with the PDF format ;)
nila
06-20-2007, 14:55
What text formatter are you using and with what settings?

Thanks