Fab4 browser and extensions

The fab4 browser builds a modern UI around the Multivalent, and extends it with support for distributed annotations and new file formats. This project website includes the latest developments. The original (old) web page is available at: http://bodoni.lib.liv.ac.uk/fab4/

Features

• Reads and renders HTML, PDF, DVI, SVG, JPEG, PPT, JT, XLS, OGG Theora + vorbis, MP3 and other formats direclty in pure Java, without use of native helper applications
• Users can create shared, distributed annotations using open standards (SRU, SWORD, ...)
• Uses the XML digital signature standard to guarantee the provenance of the annotations
• Annotations are stored separate from the original file, the original file remains untouched
• Annotations are attached to the documents using different identifiers, so they are location and file format independent (you can annotate an ODF file with Fab4, email the file converted to PDF, and the receiver will be able to see the same annotations as in the original ODF file)

Webstart

Run Fab4 browser directly from your browser, using Java Webstart; all you need is a recent version of Java (>=1.5).

Run Fab4 Browser

Downloads

Fab4 browser binary (executable).

Fab4 browser source code is avaliable on SVN. It can be built from Maven, and includes all extensions and media adaptors; it requires to install (mvn install) the JT library first, from Jt library

The Fab4 web start application that can be built from the source code, and deploied to a Java server like Tomcat.

Documentation

Build instructions

Dependencies