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Installation Guide

houqp edited this page Apr 4, 2013 · 11 revisions

Basic installation / update (with launchpad):

  1. Jailbreak your Kindle.
  2. Install "Launchpad" tool.
  3. Firstly download the latest release from the Download page.
  4. Create a folder named "customupdates" on the Kindle and copy the zip file into it.
  5. Press Shift-Shift-I sequence on the Kindle for installion (if this is the first time you use launchpad: you only have 0.7 secs for the sequence!). You can modify launchpad settings to make the key sequence easier to press:
    1. Edit the launchpad.ini in the installed folder in your Kindle.
    2. Change HotInterval = 700 to HotInterval = 1500
    3. Change InterKeyDelay = 300 to InterKeyDelay = 700
  6. Press Shift-Shift-Space sequence on the Kindle to reload launchpad.
  7. Done! now you can run the viewer via a Shift-P-D sequence.

Basic installation / update (with Kite)

  1. make sure Kite is installed. You can find the software and instructions here:
  2. unzip the contents of the installation ZIP file in the root directory of the volume the Kindle presents via USB
  3. Kite should now present two new pseudo-documents for starting

KUAL

While Launchpad is handy, it's not very user friendly. You might also want to try [KUAL][kual], which is an awesome GUI launcher for all kindle devices. twobob wrote a [guide][kual-guide] for launching KPV with KUAL.

[here][kual-guide]. [kual]:http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203326 [kual-guide]:http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2406316&postcount=5

###Uninstallation: Please note that uninstallation is not needed when updating the application. Just install a newer release ZIP as described above (unless otherwise mentioned). But if you want to remove it for good, this is the procedure:

  1. Just delete "kindlepdfviewer" folder.

  2. Also, delete "kpdf.sh" and "kpdf.ini" from the "launchpad" folder.

  3. Delete KPDFviewer... files from "kite" folder".

  4. You might want to scan the drive for files "*.kpdfview.lua", in which document specific settings got stored - and delete them too.

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