So yesterday, i grabbed poppler, freetype and Qt sources and in 45 minutes hacked together a proof of concept PDF viewer for symbian. Pretty cool if you ask me, the ugly side is that if i ever get some more work on it and want to get it into OVI store I need to pay 50€ to register into it and around 200€ more to get the app to go through Symbian signed, of course what i'm not going to do is spend 250€ to get a free app into OVI store, on the other hand i could of ask for some € for the application (3€?), but i'm not sure it's a good idea either.
just a thought but don't will be awesome a free or opensource repository? I think the ovistore is awfull, more if we compare it with the android store, maybe your second application could be a repository application where the developers could upload their creations for free, I can give the host to doit.
ReplyDeleteHave you considered not signing it? Lots of phones allow unsigned stuff (mine included :D).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I think that right now even if you wanted to, you couldn't get it on OVI because Qt apps aren't accepted there yet.
Why not both? I agree that ovi is an awful cludge. But it does have a lot of users. Couldn't the KDE community join forces and buy a licens for all KDE devsto publish on OVi to use?
ReplyDeleteOr you/KDE could ask for a "licence donation" for free KDE applications?
ReplyDeleteWhy not release for free and leave a donation box with a target sum? It may motivate people to give.
ReplyDeleteHave you made any decisions about the PDF viewer? I for one am very interested in trying it out.
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ReplyDeleteIm develop AlternateDjvu for Symbian.
It's a free Djvu reader.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alternatedjvu/
Next - Pdf support.
Can you help to project?
So are you seriously planning on making a pdf reader.
ReplyDeleteMe as well as many other people would be interested in it.
I don't know much, but can't whole okular be ported to Symbian, it would be like a killer app for Adobe, mobipocket etc...
At least start development, I am sure if you are successful then you will get enough donations to put it in a ovi store, or we could open a open symbian repository.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alternatedjvu/
ReplyDeleteAlfa version of AlternateDjvu 1.08 (AlternateReader) with PDF support.
In June will be released stable version.
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/06/23/nokia-qt-sdk-10-released/
ReplyDeleteYou might be able to get it signed for free. Check it out, if you are still interested.
Hi, did you get this error while installing poppler? I've already downloaded fontconfig2.8, updated autoconf, automake, etc...
ReplyDelete"Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS and FONTCONFIG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details."
Regards,
Felipe Andrade
felipe, for poppler questions it's better to hit the poppler mailing list or the poppler irc channel.
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