Can You Upload Pictures to Ti Nspire?

Until at present, your TI-Nspire could not read documents files other than those created past the TI-Nspire software.
It was non possible to put on your estimator Physician/DOCX (Microsft Word), ODT (OpenOffice Write) or PDF files (Adobe Acrobat).
Yous couldn't either convert those documents to the TI-Nspire document format as it does manage very limited formatting options.
A solution was the conversion of these documents into BMP, JPEG or PNG images.
Unfortunately, the TI-Nspire system provides a very limited image reader without any zoom or scrolling back up, thus limiting the images to a maximum size of 318x212 pixels inadapted to US letter documents.

A solution came with the mViewer image reader for owners of TI-Nspire still able to install Ndless.

A drawback of this solution withal, was to have a different paradigm for each page, and therefore constantly accept to close and reopen images for a document with several pages.

Alas, Texas Instruments decided for back to school 2013 to permanently cake any possibility of installing Ndless on new TI-Nspire CX hardware revision 'J', thus creating an unfair inequality among buyers in regards to their hereafter exams where some of them will nonetheless be able to build a real globe of documents on their TI-Nspire while the others nothing, causing discontent amidst those last purchasers who can consider having been deceived after being forbidden features granted to their predecessors and which were oftentimes 1 of their purchase criteria.

Today, nosotros're not going to reduce this inequality, quite the opposite...  in the adjacent few lines, some of you may explode with joy while the others may be completely disgusted...

Because this night is a great 24-hour interval in the history of the TI- Nspire ...
Legimet was able to port the MuPDF library  and has just released the first 3rd-political party document reader for TI-Nspire CX and TI- Nspire CM !
Named nPDF, it supports PDF, XPS and CBZ documents.

Note that then far it does not work on classic TI-Nspire. But anyway, the program is already 8MB large and wouldn't permit you with many space left for those documents on such calculators.

Compered to the previous mViewer solution, advantages of this new histrion should be:

I was initially quite skeptical on the PDF back up, as it is not a free format and did undergo many changes in years. Nevertheless, I've tested several complex documents with many images and tables in addition to the text and have been amazed by an admittedly perfect display !

For example, here below, reading the 7^th of the 125 pages of the Getting started Started with the TI-Nspire ™ CX / TI-Nspire CX CAS Handheld .

Even if the nPDF reader is an extraordinary technical performance, it suffers (at least for at present) from many drawbacks and limitations:

• no possibility to zoom
• no horizontal scrolling (all the pages are automatically scaled to the width of the screen, 320 pixels)
  
• no button to skip to the previous/side by side folio (yous've got to scroll to the bottom/height of a folio in order to move to the next/previous) :(
  
• no continuous scrolling (pressing up/downward arrows just produces a simple piddling up/down scroll, you and then have to release the key and repress it, and again and again...) :(

Minor things, whose many would be certainly easy and quick to gear up with very gew C code lines, it's the matter of a simple weekend, simply which for now are going to litterally ruin your user experience, unless you're happy with the video beneath... :(

Annotation that nPDF did crash here on the concluding page modify. I recall I could spot the problem. We notice indeed that when we're reaching the bottom of a page, the reader tin can sometimes cross the bottom page which displays some noise lines on the bottom of the screen. This happens with documents whose folio top is non a multiple  of the vertical scrolling step. At this point, the reader reads random data outside of the memory allocated for ??the page information, which actually causes such crashes easily.

Briefly, in its current version 0.one, nPDF will exist the right thing :

• to documents with very few pages (because of the crash risk on folio changes)
  
• to multi-page documents requiring no or very little vertical scrolling (Us letter landscape format for instance - because of the non-continuous vertical scrolling)
  
• to one paged documents for those requiring vertical scrolling (because of the absence of keys to move to the side by side/previous folio)
  
• and to documents with text large plenty to be readable even once resized to 320 pixels wide (because of the automatic resizing to 320 pixels wide without any zoom possibility)

In my stance, nPDF is non yet an finish-user acceptable alternative to mViewer for reading documents on the TI-Nspire , just it's perfectly able to surpass it and to become the main TI-Nspire certificate reader before your 2014 exams, unfortunately only for some of you , I know, if the writer has time to continue its development for the end-user now! ;D

So do not hesitate to thank the author, support him or encourage him, and even making your own comments or suggestions. ;)

Source and download: http://ourl.ca/20218

Cantankerous-posted from: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13557&p=153843&lang=en

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Source: https://www.omnimaga.org/news/1st-pdf-reader-for-ti-nspire-cxcm/

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