Since PDF is a No Go then... how about... XPS!

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Hack Name:XPS Viewer
What It Does:View XPS files on the Zune
Tips/Suggestions for the H&M Team:Allow zooming in on pages and a index hotlink that will allow you to zip streight to certain pages.

Basically... since everyone and their mother wants a PDF viewer but everyone seis they cant... why not a XPS viewer? XPS for those that done know is a Print Document that XP and Vista can generate instead of printing to a printer. It looks exactly like the origional PDF. Since also that its based on MS tech I figured it may be possible... THOUGHTS!?!?!?

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Dont know if this will help but here is instructions from what I gather and possible source material from Microsoft itself.
DocumentViewer XPS Sample

[itsnotabigtruck]

XPS is less complicated than PDF, but would still be a helluva job to code. :/

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Yea but Microsoft is releaseing tutorials on how to make viewers for it. If I was a programmer I would be doing this

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by avatarpatch

Yea but Microsoft is releaseing tutorials on how to make viewers for it. If I was a programmer I would be doing this

I am looking into this, just for fun. I do not expect to actually make it.

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Have you had any luck trying to get this to work?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by avatarpatch

Have you had any luck trying to get this to work?

Highly dubious. Netrix will release it when and if he makes and/or feels like it.

[itsnotabigtruck]

I might give it a shot at some point. XPS files are essentially a ZIP file with images and an XML file containing the text/layout. The format isn't too complicated b/c its text layout capabilities are very limited. However, it does support embedded fonts, which would be difficult (read: practically impossible) to use within XNA.

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is it something that is doable?