speeding up images?

[dixiepnum]

I am a newbie so forgive me. Awesome job on this opensource Florian. I will hopefully contribute as I go.

Can anyone help with the following problem?

Question/Issue: the New York app is too slow loading it's images. As you're aware, Zinio takes time to install a full magazine, but once it's loaded, there's no waiting for the images.

So is there anyway to get Laker to load all the images up front upon the installation, instead of when you move from dossier to dossier?

thanks a million...if I get there first I will be sure to share!

[ffranke]

Take a look at the Three-Cards-Branch of the BakerFramework:

https://github.com/Simbul/baker/tree/three-cards

Pages get preloaded on that build.

Cheers florian

[dixiepnum]

thanks....I have now tested it, and you were right about the images, but not the "pages" or "dossiers". For example, even though it's now installed on the ipad, when you go to the next page, you see the page number and the loading graphic, and you have to wait for the text to show up.

I will attempt to figure this out. If it's to have the look and feel of a Zinio magazine, the entire thing loads upon the install, and there is no page waiting whatsoever.

I suppose it's either in the method or the memory management?

[ffranke]

Hey there,

Yeah its a memory problem. I think zinio is doing it the same way you dont notice it that much because only pictures are loaded. In laker all pages aren't only pictures but full html pages with have to be rendered.

Cheers Florian

[dixiepnum]

Its curious because otherwise, css html has no problem loading instantly on the ipad with no waiting...

We'll see how it goes as I deconstruct laker and rebuild it...

Thanks

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On 2011-07-26, at 12:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Hey there,

Yeah its a memory problem. I think zinio is doing it the same way you dont notice it that much because only pictures are loaded. In laker all pages aren't only pictures but full html pages with have to be rendered.

Cheers Florian

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[ffranke]

? In which app? Could you give an example?

[dixiepnum]

Safari!

;-)

Btw...if you want to make some real money, turn laker into "powerpoint for ios"...of course, apple might not let you....but everything I'm spending time on is towards that....simplified plug and play object referencing.

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On 2011-07-26, at 1:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:

? In which app? Could you give an example?

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[ffranke]

;) Safari is not THAT instant on my ipad2, though I noticed a slight speed increase in ios5 beta 4.

Alright. But what about Keynote? Or do you mean to distribute "presentations" as self-learning tools in the app store?

[dixiepnum]

;-)

No, i mean powerpoint just adds another layer of user functionality so average users who could never do xcode could still build an ipad magazine. Like adobe cs...imagine if i could just drag and drop your objects onto a frame or view...put an image here, a textbox here, insert a new page/dossier, change the fonts....so basically, laker gets dumbed down to the average user, who can then build and publish to newstand.

To accomplish this, you just go into xcode and build an app that includes the xcode shell, but accomodates drag and drop object referencing and code generation into a nice looking gui. The app spits out a fully functioning ipad magazine. It's a no-brainer. It's like powerpoint wizards, or ms access. You can actually build and sell a custom stand-alone application using access. 20 years ago, access didn't have that gui, but now it does.

On my current project, if I just use the code blocks to recreate a brand new magazine with a different look and feel (css), and different content, with a few different bells and whistles (xcode or baker), I am doing exactly the same thing without a drag and drop gui to speed it up.

Make sense?

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On 2011-07-26, at 1:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:

;) Safari is not THAT instant on my ipad2, though I noticed a slight speed increase in ios5 beta 4.

Alright. But what about Keynote? Or do you mean to distribute "presentations" as self-learning tools in the app store?

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[ffranke]

ah alright! Understood! And also thought about that ;)

[dixiepnum]

Just think how many highschool yearbooks could be put on the ipad!

Kaching$$$

I'll let you know when I get there!

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On 2011-07-26, at 1:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:

ah alright! Understood! And also thought about that ;)

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[erikm30]

Hi, actually it doesn't belong into this topic, but following on your thoughts: Since I find it much more difficult to create real "magazine-like" text, than composing e.g. a photobook of your own images, I thought it might be nice to have an application like the photobook-programs you can find by the photobook-companies (Pixum, CeWe, ...) and using this output to "compile" (or rather convert) to a iPad-PhotoMagazine. Slideshows and other interactive elements could be implemented lateron, either by hand-crafting the output of the aforementioned program, or by extending it. Problems I am facing:

• I don't think I am the right to code this :-) (might be solved however, e.g. by off-shoring or as collective effort by the open-source community)
• The format of existing programs is an XML file as far as I have seen, still it is of course in the hands of the program owner to change it at any time.
• I haven't found any open-source photobook program so far as a starting point.

Any thoughts on this ?

[dixiepnum]

-i think there might be some free ones on the appstore -there are also some scrapbooking apps that might meet your needs

In spite of that, I am working towards a similar solution...

Today I am downloading some free html5/css3 theme files from wordpress. You can find these by googling free html5 css templates...

I am going to try to merge a few of these pages into Laker. If it works, it should then be very easy to compile Laker-styled ipad dossier pages filled with whatever media and styles you like, photos, videos, youtube, documents etc....it can act like a "styled personal media library" which is basically what a magazine is....All in an ipad app.

It will also turn the ipad into a high school yearbook...

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On 2011-07-28, at 8:17 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Hi, actually it doesn't belong into this topic, but following on your thoughts: Since I find it much more difficult to create real "magazine-like" text, than composing e.g. a photobook of your own images, I thought it might be nice to have an application like the photobook-programs you can find by the photobook-companies (Pixum, CeWe, ...) and using this output to "compile" (or rather convert) to a iPad-PhotoMagazine. Slideshows and other interactive elements could be implemented lateron, either by hand-crafting the output of the aforementioned program, or by extending it. Problems I am facing:

• I don't think I am the right to code this :-) (might be solved however, e.g. by off-shoring or as collective effort by the open-source community)
• The format of existing programs is an XML file as far as I have seen, still it is of course in the hands of the program owner to change it at any time.
• I haven't found any open-source photobook program so far as a starting point.

Any thoughts on this ?

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