jsa<pdf>: Read your PDFs on your DS. By jsa005

By @jsa005
POSTED: 03 Jun 2014 17:24
CATEGORY: Related Website
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You know that awkward moment when you click a link in your DSi or 3DS Browser and it pops up saying Unsupported file type? Well, Nintendo didn't help you read your PDFs by including a simple reader with the system, so I'm covering. Optimised (UK English FTW!) for the DSi Browser (3DS version coming soon), read as many PDFs as you like. I'm adding some polish to it soon, but in any case you just want the link, right? http://hatenagain.heliohost.org/pdf/ (I'm going to move hosts soon, so don't get used to that link). So have fun. Files and rendered pages get cached for 12 hours. Have fun.

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jsa005
04 Jun 2014 16:50

I'm going to add zoom when I have an hour free. This will also work on other devices, such as 3DSes (well, not 3DS because of a charset issue, a fix is on the way) and PCs.

The Ram
04 Jun 2014 04:44

Anyway, hope this continues. Nice work.

The Ram
04 Jun 2014 04:40

Wish I still had my DSi to test this out, I remember several times running into PDFs. Hopefully it'll be running again soon.

Star Shadow
04 Jun 2014 05:34
In reply to The Ram

Since I am one of the few who still uses a DSi, I'll be testing it.

Star Shadow
04 Jun 2014 05:39
In reply to Star Shadow

And it works. Needs a zoom function like Hull said. Great job so far.

jsa005
07 Jun 2014 14:22
In reply to Star Shadow

On the way.

Monstercat
04 Jun 2014 04:01

It's pretty cool.

Nice to see that you're pushing this kind of stuff to older hardware. Fantastic work.

jsa005
04 Jun 2014 16:52
In reply to Monstercat

So many people still use them, and for this it was really no harder to make this, it's just a HTML page with an image as the background.

HullBreach
04 Jun 2014 03:33

It's an interesting concept, but the sample DSi manual didn't scale well with all the small text. There should be an option to specify larger image sizes that can be zoomed on the DSi.

jsa005
07 Jun 2014 14:23
In reply to HullBreach

It's on the way.

jsa<pdf>: Read your PDFs on your DS.

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