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This is a program based on Howard Casto's recent proposal for an app to read pdf's on a portable device. His idea was to e-mail them to the device and I don't think it's the best way to do it because they are often large and there are lag times when sending and receiving e-mail. So I came up with the idea of serving up a pdf directly through a mini web server. This means it's pretty much immediate but it also means you can have a whole bunch of pdf's stored on a PC and serve them up to any portable device. It also has the added bonus of not taking up valuable space on your portable device. I've tested it on my iPod and iPad and it works quite well. It's pretty simple to use.. you run the PdfServer.exe which will create a PdfServer.ini file. You can leave the defaults and test it's working on locahost by entering http://localhost:8080 into a web browser. Included is the 1942.pdf for test purposes so if you can view that then it's working. Now you can put your PC's internal IP into PdfServer.ini and access the pdf's from a portable device using wifi. Eg. http://192.168.1.123:8080 The only downside to this system is it's one way communication at the moment. So you get a list of pdf's and you scroll through to select the one you want to view, rather than have the PC serve up the pdf of the currently running game, for example. But I think this is better anyway because you can use it for any pdf's you want and not just manuals for MAME. Download PdfServer 1.0

It's an idea I've had for a while but I only started writing it yesterday. I was in the middle of writing a post in Howard's thread about it and then it occured to me that since he still codes in VB6 it would likely be a much more difficult task for him to write. I've tried to encourage Howard to check out VB.NET over the years but he's adament to stick with VB6. This a perfect example of why he should move to .NET. This program only took a few hours to write because .NET has some great classes for establishing socket connections in only a few lines of code. I started with some code from The Code Project (Create your own Web Server using C#) and after a bit of fiddling around and reusing some pdf handling code from CPWizard (using GhostScript) I could see how it would work. It's hardly polished but it gets the job done. One of the things that spurred me on was having a number of eBooks that I wanted to read on my iPad. The only way I knew how to get them there was to e-mail them. It's a PITA. Reading them this way is not as nice as using iBooks but it does solve the problem of getting them onto the device easily. If I get some spare time I may spend some more time on it but I have alot of other important projects I need to get back to.

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