I had considered it in the past, before I was able to set up a secondary
screen on the computer.  Now I simply hook up another screen.

I don't think it's cost effective to build what would essentially be an
E-Book when you can get a palm PDA for $50.  I believe there is a PDF
reader for the palm system.

However, if you're really interested in doing it the hard way, I'll bet
that you can use one of the many 640x480 monochrome lcd panels (surplus)
with an 18F device running at 40MHz.  The easiest method would be to
develop a simple character set that could be written to the display on
the fly, so you only have to buffer the text going to the display
instead of the actual bit patterns.

There may be enough processing power left over to read from a simple
memory (CF, maybe) and decode a PDF file, but it'd be pretty slow.

But it would be very limited (no graphics, etc).

Interesting project, though.

-Adam

zumbi wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   I have many datasheets (on PDF), and not always a PC to be able to
> read it, also, it's a waste of paper, ink and others having each time
> you want something to have to print it. So, is it any development on a
> PDF Reader? I guess it could be done with a Graphic LCD and some PIC
> handling the LCD and memory (CompactFlash)...
>
>   What do you think ? Would it be to hard of doing this ? Maybe using
> linux tools ?
>
> Cheers!
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