 SR4 Light, Browse your SR4 books on your PDA ! |
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 Mar 14 2007, 11:31 AM
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Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466  |
SR4 Light converts Shadowrun's pdf (and possibly non SR pdf too) into light HTML files while keeping most of the formatting. This allows you to access quickly to any page of a SR book on your PDA/Smartphone/DS/PSP or any kind of mobile device that can run a webbrowser.
You can get it here I've only tested it on my own PDA (a Tapwave Zodiac) with SR4 corebook and Augmentation and without the images. It works quite fine but the result may be different on other devices. Please give me your feedback. Before asking questions, be sure to read the readme file. |
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Jul 28 2007, 03:02 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
UPDATED!
- Lot of bug fixed - Removed the frames - Supports the links in the table of contents - Supports Augmentation (and probably other books too) In the actual state, it's not really user-friendly. Be sure to read the readme file before using it |
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Jul 28 2007, 06:02 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Bitchin' idea. I'd be installing this, but trying to read documents on my phone's screen just makes me angry. :)
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Jul 31 2007, 08:14 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
Is anyone actually using this? Just to know if I have to bother creating a user-friendlier version or not.
Thanks to this I can read Augmentation on the bus to and back from work. Except for a problem with the first page of each chapter (after the short story) which becomes quite unreadable, it's working perfectly! But my PDA has a large screen so I can fit a whole text column in landscape mode. I guess the experience might not be that good on devices with smaller screen (and I'm not sure that all mobile phone browser can browse pages loaded on the device itself). |
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Jul 31 2007, 10:14 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,525 |
Hi
Yes just downloading it to use, will post results. Ash |
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Jul 31 2007, 03:28 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 2-June 07 From: Minneapolis, MN Member No.: 11,809 |
I'll give this a try tonight. Sounds promising. :D
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Aug 5 2007, 11:03 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483 |
I'd like to try it, having trouble figuring it out though
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Aug 6 2007, 09:13 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
Feel free to ask any question if you need help. ;)
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Aug 6 2007, 10:15 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483 |
Well, I've installed the Activeperl....though I have no idea how to make it work from there. It's just software I've never seen before is all.
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Aug 7 2007, 07:31 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
You just have to install it and then forget about it.
It will be called automatically by the convert.bat file to interpret the .pl script. |
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Aug 7 2007, 12:16 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483 |
Got It!
I am now viewing the HTML conversion on my PSP! |
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Aug 7 2007, 12:50 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
So, is the layout and displaying ok?
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Aug 7 2007, 09:25 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483 |
It looked pretty good after I adjusted the Text size. It leaves gaps where the pictures use to be, but it is very legible. The way it hotlinks the index is nice too.
It's better than what I was doing, converting the PDF to JPG and then viewing it. I'll have to tinker around with it and see about converting the other books too. |
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Aug 8 2007, 10:10 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
Cool.
About the gaps, that's exactly the idea : to keep the exact same layout, so that if you have a visual memory you can easily find a reference in HTML/PDF if you remember where it was in the other. You might also be able to keep the images by adding -i (I think) to the pdf2html command line but I haven't tested it and I'm not sure it will work. |
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Aug 9 2007, 02:53 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483 |
Hmm....I got it to convert SR4.....but it came out pretty funky.
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Aug 9 2007, 08:25 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
What exactly did you get?
It is able to convert SR4 without any problems (for me at least). The steps are given in the readme files (but maybe I forgot something). Anyway, I'll try to add a user interface so that you can convert other books without having to edit the files. |
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Aug 10 2007, 01:24 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483 |
My biggest problem besides the missing words....was that the links somehow ended up under the text and I couldn't navigate between pages
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Aug 10 2007, 04:43 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Cool! Whenever my players ask me where something is they get answers like: "It's about 2/5 of the way through the book, on the top right of a page." |
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Mar 5 2008, 09:32 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
Just tried it with Arsenal's PDF and it seems to be working ok without touching anything (except for the name of the PDF in the .bat and .pl files, of course.). It's not perfect (it still has problems with the page after each chapter opening story, and the chapter titles and page number made their way back in) but it's good enough for me to read in the train.
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Mar 6 2008, 01:52 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 811 Joined: 30-January 07 From: Portland, OR Member No.: 10,845 |
Hmm, Im having a lot of the same problems I had when I was copy and pasting into word. Some of the words have gaps in the middle. I guess it still is quite nice. Also, why doesnt it complile every page into 1 .html file? its kind of annoying having to exit out and load a new file. I will try it soon on my Treo.
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Mar 6 2008, 09:31 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
If you use the files starting with d, most gaps should have disappeared.
It doesn't compile everything into 1 file to keep the layout of each page, make it easier to navigate inside pages and also make it faster to load/draw each page. You don't need to exit and load a new file, you can use the arrows and "menu" link at the beginning of each page. |
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Mar 7 2008, 08:14 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
Actually some equipment tables are removed in the process.. I'll try to fix that.
EDIT: Well I can't. It looks like they used some images instead of text... Too bad, I wanted to program something to extract the data of the tables to easily export gear into the character generators. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) |
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Mar 8 2008, 04:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 118 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Sheffield, UK Member No.: 7,340 |
This looks great will have to get it when I get home. Then see if I can get it to run on my Ipod Touch. Means I can have my books for reference at work.
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Mar 31 2008, 11:02 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
QUOTE (Tobias @ Mar 8 2008, 05:22 PM)  This looks great will have to get it when I get home. Then see if I can get it to run on my Ipod Touch. Means I can have my books for reference at work. Same here if i can get it to run ill never need to hijack the pc just to look up one rule again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) P.s if you've got the email client just email your self them to a gmail account a free and easy way to look at it it will download any atachments. |
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Apr 1 2008, 01:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 438 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Houston Member No.: 13,369 |
man im wanting to check this out
ive been wanting to read my pdfs on my psp but since sony refuses to add pdf capability... grrr |
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