Does the sandisk fuze read TXT files?
The Short answer is No. People have experimented with creating images of text files and then syncing as pictures.
Oh. Is it possible to make the pictures scroll down? Like, if the picture is too tall for the screen to display, is it possible to make the picture scroll down?
firecloak wrote:
Oh. Is it possible to make the pictures scroll down? Like, if the picture is too tall for the screen to display, is it possible to make the picture scroll down?
Nope. And that’s why it’s usually not feasible to take an image of a document and load it onto one of these players. The print would be soooo tiny, no one could read it.
I wonder if you could add the text to an ID3 tag of an MP3 file, such as Comments, and then display that. You wouldn’t have control of the scrolling, and it would be small text.
Message Edited by qualityaudio on 11-26-2009 07:28 AM
As far as I know, it doesn’t display comments. And long comments are suspected of crashing the unit. You could make the text an album art jpg for an mp3, I guess. Or you could get a PDA.
You could render your plain text to several image files. I’m using ImageMagick for this task. Have a look at this post for a few hints. I feel comfortable with reading from images which contain about 14 lines of text, 30 characters each.
You can easily “scroll” between images if they are named purposely.
There is even an advantage of the text-to-image method: you are not limited by any supported character sets of the device because you are looking at true images. The rendering is controled by yourself (glyphs, fonts, formatting etc.) not by the limited capabilities of a device.
Remember that this method is useful for short texts/lists/memos only. But this limitation applies to other (small sized) media players with integrated text readers too.
Hi, you can use a small program I’ve recently made, rendertext:
$ perl rendertext.pl readme.txt -f -d=samplebook --full
A 50 KB book is rendered in ~50-100 jpeg (small or tiny font respectively) files in a folder in less than 1 second.
http://rendertext.sourceforge.net
Ignacio Javier
