Orion Viewer with pdf and djvu support

[kammerer]

Orion - pdf and djvu viewer for e-ink readers and tablets based on mupdf and DjVuLibre libraries.

Site: http://code.google.com/p/orion-viewer/
Android market: Orion Viewer
Supported devices: Android based devices (from 1.5) also supported nook Classic and Spring Design Alex

Supported features:
* Bookmarks
* Portrait/landscape orientation
* Custom zooming
* Custom border cropping
* Support different navigation patterns inside page (left->right top->bottom and top->bottom left->right)
* Next page pre-caching
* Built-in file manager with recently opened file view
* Tap Zones & Key binding
* External Dictionaries support

Usage:
1. Open document (it will be opened with zoom by width, in this case zoom = 0)
2. Select appropriate orientation: portrait or landscape
3. Crop borders, text size will be change accordingly to changing borders (if zoom by width specified)
4. Enjoy reading!

Builds for nook Classic and Spring Design Alex avaliable on project site

[kammerer]

Merged with first message

[darseno]

This is a great app. Thank you very much for making it. Yours is the only app I've found that has user-customizable hardware button bindings and no animation. It works perfectly on my prs-t1.

However, there are some features I'd like to see implemented.

1. (solved)

2. Auto-cropping. Ebookdroid (code.google.com/p/ebookdroid) has implemented this feature in version 1.3 and it works very well. Perhaps you could look at their code to see how it's done. I believe their project is very similar to yours.

3. The possibility of combining manual cropping and auto-cropping. It would be nice to start out with manual cropping to exclude artifacts from the margins (smudges, annotations, etc.) and then let the auto-cropping feature complete the cropping nice and close to the next.

4. (solved)

5. (solved)

6. (solved)

7. (solved)

8. Continuous page mode as in Adobe Reader for Android and Ebookdroid. This uses screen space more efficiently and less page turns for longer battery life.

Thanks again for your good work.

[kammerer]

Hello darseno, thank you for reply!

6. I do not see a button to open the external dictionary, although your help file speaks of such a button. I can't see any way of opening the dictionary at present."

It could be opened via tap action (for detail see tap zones)

There is new 0.26.0 build avaliable on site with:
* Customizable screen brightness
* Custom screen overlapping on page turn
* Dark and Light application Themes
* New crop actions added for tap zones
* Open recent book on start up option

[darseno]

Originally Posted by kammerer

It could be opened via tap action (for detail see tap zones)

You might want to update your help file to make this clear.

There is new 0.26.0 build avaliable on site with:
* Customizable screen brightness
* Custom screen overlapping on page turn
* Dark and Light application Themes
* New crop actions added for tap zones
* Open recent book on start up option

I assume the brightness and dark/light themes are not meant for e-ink devices.

Open recent is a nice feature, and overlapping is also a good idea. Thanks.

[kammerer]

New beta version 0.27.1 with bookmarks support is avaliable!

to darseno: "brightness and dark/light themes" designed specially for lcd devices

[kammerer]

New stable version 0.27.4 is avaliable on site and market

Added:
* bookmarks
* day/night mode
* small fixes

[kammerer]

New stable version 0.29.3 is avaliable on site and market:

* New Zoom and Rotation dialogs
* Border cropping for odd/even pages

[darseno]

Originally Posted by kammerer

* Border cropping for odd/even pages

Your implementation of odd/even page cropping works very well, especially when one defines touch zones to quickly add or remove space from margins.

I'm looking forward to autocropping to get rid of that extra bit of space that one must leave when using manual cropping to avoid cutting off part of the text on subsequent pages that are slightly off-center. Scanned books tend to vary from page to page, but with combined manual and auto cropping the results can be very good.

Thanks for your good work.

[victorhooi]

heya,

I noticed that the last Nook Classic build is for 0.29.0.

Is there a build of the newer 0.29.3 for Nook Classic devices? Or am I able to load the general 0.29.3 APK onto these devices?

Cheers,
Victor

[kammerer]

Originally Posted by victorhooi

heya,

I noticed that the last Nook Classic build is for 0.29.0.

Is there a build of the newer 0.29.3 for Nook Classic devices? Or am I able to load the general 0.29.3 APK onto these devices?

Cheers,
Victor

Last build for nook classic is 0.29.0. It has same functionality as 0.29.3 general (there are some fixes not actual for nook classic).

[shimi85]

hey guys...how can I set different margins for odd/even pages in orion 0.34.1 ??

[kammerer]

Originally Posted by shimi85

hey guys...how can I set different margins for odd/even pages in orion 0.34.1 ??

see this discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/orionviewer/kvmB2_7GD6I

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I just tried this app and I must say it has come a LONG way. It makes reading large PDF on small screens very nice. It's also the only PDF reader I've seen that loads faster than RepliGo.

[kammerer]

New beta verision 0.37.0:
* Text selection in pdf/djv books
* Outline
* New page traversal: from right to left
* New default book settings