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AmiBookReader (AmigaOS 3.2 / 68k)
An eBook and document reader for classic AmigaOS
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Description
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AmiBookReader is a native 68k AmigaOS application for reading e-books,
comics and documents. It uses a statically linked MuPDF as its
rendering engine together with a classic ReAction/GadTools GUI, so it
feels right at home on Workbench. This is the AmigaOS 3.2 sibling of
the AmigaOS 4.1 PowerPC version of AmiBookReader.
Supported formats:
* epub, pdf, cbz, xps, oxps, fb2, mobi - documents / e-books
* html, htm, xhtml - (X)HTML documents
* png, jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, tiff, tif - standard images
* svg, txt - vector graphics / text
* jp2, jpx - JPEG 2000
* jbig2 - often embedded in scanned
PDFs, can also be opened
directly
* pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, pam - Unix bitmap formats
Features
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- Native ReAction/GadTools GUI, resizable window
- Contents/bookmarks panel showing the document outline (when
available); the "Contents" menu item is greyed out if the
document has no outline
- Search panel: find text, jump to previous/next match, page
position is remembered
- Export menu: export the current page or the whole book as PDF,
PNG, JPEG, HTML, XHTML or plain text (menu entries that don't
make sense for the current document, e.g. re-exporting a PNG as
PNG, are automatically greyed out)
- Zoom panel with +/- buttons and reset, or +/- keyboard shortcuts
when the panel is closed
- Mouse wheel scrolling (scrolls within page, turns page at edge)
- Vertical and horizontal scrollbars
- Fullscreen mode (View menu, checkbox)
- Night mode and Sepia reading mode (experimental)
- Bookmarking: automatically remembers the last opened book and page
- "Start with Last Document" option (Settings menu)
- "Keep Window Size on Exit" option (Settings menu) - also saves
and restores the main window's position, not just its size
- Contents, Search and Zoom panel positions/sizes are saved and
restored reliably
- Jump to first/last page, direct page selection
- Drag & Drop: drop a file onto AmiBookReader to open it directly;
files dropped onto the iconified AppIcon open right away, no need
to uniconify first
- Double-clicking a document whose default tool is set to
AmiBookReader opens that document directly
- Shell support with command line arguments (see below)
- Iconify support
- Workbench icon and screen title integration
- Icons created by McFly
Requirements
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- AmigaOS 3.2 (should also work on other AmigaOS 3.x versions with
ReAction installed, but only tested on 3.2)
- 68020 or better recommended - MuPDF rendering is CPU-intensive,
a plain 68000/68010 will be very slow
- An RTG graphics card with cybergraphics.library support
(Picasso96, CyberGraphX, or compatible) - AGA-only systems are
NOT supported, page rendering is blitted through
cybergraphics.library
- A reasonable amount of Fast RAM is recommended for larger PDFs or
high-resolution scans
Installation
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1. Copy the AmiBookReader drawer to your hard disk (e.g. Work:).
2. Double-click the AmiBookReader icon to launch.
3. Optionally drag a supported file onto the icon/window to open
it directly, or set AmiBookReader as the default tool of a
supported document to open it via double-click.
Usage from Shell
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AmiBookReader [FILE] [PAGE <n>] [PUBSCREEN <n>]
FILE - path to a document, e-book or image to open
PAGE - page number to jump to (1 = first page)
PUBSCREEN - name of a public screen to open the window on
Examples:
AmiBookReader Work:Books/manual.pdf
AmiBookReader Work:Books/manual.pdf PAGE 42
AmiBookReader Work:Books/manual.pdf PUBSCREEN MyScreen
Without any arguments, AmiBookReader resumes the last opened book
and page automatically, unless "Start with Last Document" has been
disabled in the Settings menu.
Known Issues
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- Night mode and Sepia are experimental and may still need some
fine-tuning on certain images or colour profiles.
- HTML/XHTML export is meant for viewing in a real web browser or
feeding into another XML/e-book toolchain - MuPDF's own HTML
writer output is not intended to be re-opened by AmiBookReader
(or by MuPDF-based readers in general).
Credits
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- Rendering engine: MuPDF (https://mupdf.com)
- GUI: ReAction / GadTools classes (window.class, layout.class,
button.class, space.class, scroller.class, listbrowser.class)
Contact
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Author: Falke_34
Email: falke.34@gmx.de
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History / Changelog
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v1.3 (14.07.26)
- Initial Aminet release of the AmigaOS 3.2/68k version.
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