:: About Lucide :: Lucide is a plugin-based document viewer with support for various file formats. It provides a SOM based plugin architecture which allows 3rd party programmers to easily add more plugins. :: Plugins :: Supported file type Supported features -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PDF scaling, rotation, navigation, text selection, searching, asynchronous rendering, form fill-in, PostScript printing DJVU Scaling, PostScript printing JPG Scaling -------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Comparison to qPDFView :: Both Lucide and qPDFView utilize the poppler library for rendering PDFs. Internal differences between the two program result in some rendering more quickly in one program vs the other. Overall, we feel that Lucide has a more OS/2-like - or native - feel to its interface, and is better suited to the operating system. The choice is left entirely to the user as to which is better suited to his needs. :: Requirements :: To install all prerequisites in one go from Arca Noae Package Manager, simply copy and paste the following string into the Quick install dialog: libc libgcc1 libgcc-fwd poppler poppler-data uclip Specifically, Lucide requires the following: - libc 0.6.6: - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.6-csd6.zip (zip format) or ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_6-csd6.wpi (WarpIn format) or "yum install libc" (from the netlabs-rel repository) - gcc492.dll: - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/gcc4core-1_3_1.wpi (WarpIn format) or "yum install libgcc1 libgcc-fwd" (from the netlabs-rel repository) - poppler 0.42.0 library needs to be installed to view PDFs: - "yum install poppler", can be installed from netlabs-rel repository Optional: to place unicode text to the clipboard in OpenOffice.org-compatible format you need to install UClip package (enhanced OS/2 clipboard support, installed by default in eComStation 2.0 RC1 and up, as well as ArcaOS Blue Lion): - http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=UClip or "yum install uclip" (from the netlabs-rel repository) Optional: to have Japanese fonts working you need the poppler-data package. - "yum install poppler-data" (from the netlabs-rel repository) PostScript printing requires PostScript-capable printer (pscript.drv or psprint.drv). To see a full list of features and enhancements consult the Lucide TRAC at: https://trac.netlabs.org/lucide/ If you encounter any bugs register them in the TRAC as well, see: https://trac.netlabs.org/lucide/newticket Please make sure you select the correct version and component for your ticket. :: Known problems/limitations :: See: https://trac.netlabs.org/lucide/report/1 :: Third-Party plugins :: GBM (Generalised Bitmap Module) is a library for handling many different bitmap file formats. It comes with a set of useful command line tools for doing bitmap manipulations and format conversion. In this version BMP, JPG, JP2, PNG, TIF, PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM, XPM, JBG and RAW support is additionally included. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=gbmos2pm160_gbm176_lu143_moz147_bin_wpi N.B.: If using GBM to render JPG images, it is advised to disable the JPG plugin which ships with Lucide to avoid conflicts (see ticket #236). This may be accimplished by simply renaming lujpeg.dll in the Lucide program directory to lujpeg.dl_ when Lucide is not running. To re-enable the included JPG plugin, simply rename the file to its original name and start Lucide. :: Pipe commands :: The first instance of Lucide will create a named pipe \PIPE\LUCIDE. You may send following commands to this pipe: $prev - will switch to the previous page $next - will switch to the next page $presentation - will switch to presentation (even if minimized) $minimize - will mimimize Lucide (even if fullscreen) $rotate - will rotate 90� CW $zoomin - will zoom in $zoomout - will zoom out $zoomoriginal - will zoom to actual size This can be useful for presentations with a remote control. :: License through version 1.21 :: Lucide version 1.21 and earlier are licensed for use with eComStation only. You are not allowed to distribute the product by uploading it to public Internet servers or make it publicly available by any other means. :: License for version 1.3.0 and better :: Starting with version 1.3.0, Mensys BV and Serenity Systems International have agreed in opensourcing Lucide, while still investing in the product. Netlabs.org would like to express it's gratitude toward Mensys BV and Serenity Systems International. Arca Noae, LLC has agreed to foster development of Lucide from version 1.3.6 onward. Lucide remains open source, and dual licensed. Lucide as of version 1.3.0 is released and distributed under CDDL/LGPL. :: Plugin License :: The plugins are released under CDDL/LGPL or GPL, depending on the plugin. See http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/ for more information and source code. :: Links :: http://www.netlabs.org https://www.arcanoae.com :: Copyright :: (c) 2006-2007 by Eugene Romanenko, netlabs.org (c) 2010-2011 by Dmitriy Kuminov, netlabs.org in co-operation with Serenity Systems International (c) 2016 by netlabs.org in co-operation with Arca Noae, LLC