DS homebrew – Ands PDF v1.4: PDF viewer for DS

March 17, 2009

JDB has again released a new update for Ands, increasing the functionality of the homebrew PDF viewer for the Nintendo DS even further with a whole load of new features and bugfixes. This release adds quite a number of new features, including a new viewing mode, a new mini-help screen and a file filter for the app’s file browser.

Download: Ands PDF v1.4
Download: Ands PDF v1.4 (source)

Features:

New viewing mode. This is the ‘reader’ mode. (This serves two purposes: First, it lets you quickly navigate through pages. Second, it lets you read the text of a PDF in a format appropriate for the NDS.)
D-pad now pans the screen. I got alot of requests for this one!
File browser is now filtered; will only show PDF files. Note that it will show folders that don’t have PDF files in them.
You can now adjust the backlit brightness by holding down Select + Up/Down arrows.
You can now cancel out of the file browser with ‘B’, or by clicking the file browser button again.
Rendering is getting progressively faster.
Mini-help screen and info screen on startup.
Added splash screen. If you find this annoying, remove the splash files in the FONTS folder, and it will bypass this step.
Fonts are external now. This gives us alot more memory to play with at the expense of higher load times on certain PDF’s. (Note: I took out the dingbats font. If anyone as a PDF that has dingbats, I will hand out that file too… It is much larger though).

Bug Fixes:

You can no longer scroll off the bottom of the file browser.
Some memory issues resolved that led to instability.
The zoom-tool used to mess up if you clicked it more than once. Doesn’t anymore.
Tons of other stuff I’m sure…

Download: Ands PDF v1.4
Download: Ands PDF v1.4 (source)