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xbmc does wonderful things with audio, video, and pictures, but one form of media has been left out...the written word. it would be great for people with weak eyesight to be able to read downloaded books, newpapers and mags on our large tv screens. while i'm dreaming i might as well mention "text to speech" ....wow. i use isilo on my computer, if something like this could be used on the xbox........
keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i don't think the tv has sufficient resolution to get good text output (unless you have a hugeass hdtv). you'd be looking at maybe 20-30 words per screen to keep it readable which is likely to be too much scrolling to make it useful.
i don't think text to speech is likely to happen either.
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see above comments on hdtv for projectors.
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hi,
is there any kind of opensource pdf viewer ? i would love to view pdf files in xbmc !!!
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maybe convert pdf pages to pics with ghostview?
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hi,
good idea... lets do this "on the fly" with xbmc...
i'll look into this.
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is it possible to add pdf reading ability to media center? it might be a good thing since many ebooks are in pdf format. what better way of reading ebooks than being in bed or a couch... way better than reading it on your monitors....
is it worth it?
regards,
chris
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is it possible to read pdf's from within xbmc?
can this be done?
or is there already an existing programm?
greetings...