Joachim Benjamins has put an updated version of Lucide on the eCS BetaZone.  Lucide is a  plugin-based document viewer for eCS with support for various file formats including PDF, Jpg and DjVu.


Changes since version 1.20:
 - PDF plugin: Poppler (pdf rendering) library updated to version 0.10.3.
 - PDF plugin: freetype library updated to version 2.3.8.
Changes since version 1.01:
 - JPG plugin: added support for quality image scaling.
 - If the filename does not have an extension or the extension is unknown, Lucide will check file data to determine a suitable plugin (closed ticket #43).
 - Added menuitems and hotkeys to subsequently load supported files in same directory (Menu: Document->Next/Previous, closed ticket #66).
 - Added list of recent files (Menu: Document->Recent files).
 - Implemented custom file dialog with preview (closed ticket #86).
 - Added hotkeys (Ctrl+0/1/2) for predefined zoom levels.
 - Added 'Ignore printer margins' option in Print dialog (closed ticket #110).
 - UClip package is optional now (closed ticket #115).
 - Small fixes and improvements (closed ticket #126).


All registered eComStation customers can download this Lucide release (as zip or WarpIn file) from the the eComStation Betazone, after login at: http://www.ecomstation.com/

If you find any bugs please report them to the Netlabs tracking system: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/

Heiko Nitsche published 3rd party plugins for Lucide, based on GBM. They are available from his homepage at: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/

Source: OS2VOICE.org

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