• Reduce paper dependence
• Increase ease of use and versatility of documents
• Provide a fully functional and free Doc Reader/Editor
• Address the deficiencies of the other Doc readers

1) Palm Computing® Device Doc Reader Functional Requirements

• About box
• Opening/Closing Docs
• Method for selecting among any number of available Docs
• Application Menu icon (both small and large format)
• Scrolling
• Manual screen tap scroll
• Line, 1/2 page, full page
• Option to show last line on new page for full page scrolling
• Numeric % of Doc indicator and "jump to" %
• Bookmarks
• Support existing embedded bookmarks
• Add/edit/delete a bookmark
• Automatically generated bookmarks
• Auto bookmark recognition and insertion
• Sort bookmarks
• In Doc order
• Alphabetical order
• Manual order selection
• Searching
• Local Doc search (including "find next")
• Method to allow disable of Palm's "global find" feature
• Editable by-document category selection
• Editing/creating new Docs
• Copy, cut & paste text
• Graffity editing

• Adjustable line spacing support (i.e. scrunched vs. spread out lines)
• Display font changes
• Bookmark adjust (they are essentially char counts from Doc start) when Doc is edited so they still operate properly
• Optional "backup/no backup" indicator so even edited Docs can be exempted from Backup if desired (assuming the backup s/w reads the Palm's indicator)
• Encripted (pasward protected)
• Beaming between Palm Computing® devices
• Of a single (currently selected or open) Doc
• All Docs in a "category"
• Auto scrolling (teleprompter mode) ( include a scroll time adjustment ... e.g. fast, medium, slow or fractional # of seconds)
• Proportional scroll bar option (ala X-Windows) (with selectable left/right positioning of bar)
• Unix/Linux Doc converter -- Already exists
• Linux Doc Reader Functional Requirements
• Same as Palm Computing® device Functional Requirements
• Solaris Doc Reader
• HP Doc Reader
• Rotate text 90 degrees (horizontal viewing)
• Virtual page (to make text screen wider)

 Non-Functional Requirements

• Modular coding for better platform independence
• Complies to GNU coding standars
• Uses Palm API
• Must be able to open a Doc file of any size

• Size of Palm Computing® platform executable less than 100 kilobytes
• Opening a 500 Doc file takes less than 5 seconds on a Palm IIIx

• Business philosophy is to conform to the GNU Public License (GPL)
• Code and executables will be provided free of charge to anyone interested