Monday, July 26, 2010

PDF to Speech Bug Fixed

A few bugs were fixed in release 1.5.1:

  1. PDF to speech is now able to read all pdf files, limited only by the size of the file and the phone's resources.

  2. The app will not restart when the phone is tilted ( for phones with orientation enabled)



The next release will have the feature of playing a PDF in the background allowing the user to do other things with the phone while listening.

Spanish support is also on the pipeline.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

PDF to Speech Upcoming Features and Bug Fixes

Planned features:

Some users have suggested to make PDF-to-speech behave more like a media player. That is being able to play the pdf on the background leaving the foreground to check emails and use other apps. The feature will start development soon.

Caching the text will be implemented as well. The feature will reduce the wait time to just the first time the pdf is opened.

Bugs in line to be fixed:

A newer version of PDFBox seems has been able to read some of the pdfs that were to being read before. The code is in the process of being ported to pdf-to-speech.

Bug fix: changing screen orientation on my-touch makes the application restart. The caching feature will help eliminate this error.