Does anyone have experience to share with ePub conversion tools?
TIA....Greg
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From: support(a)AtlantisWordProcessor.com
To: help(a)pglaf.org
Subject: New ePub creation tool
Dear Sir,
I thought that your site visitors might be interested to know that ePub
books can be composed in Atlantis Word Processor:
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/help/index.php?page=html/ebook.htm
You might wish to mention Atlantis Word Processor among the EPUB conversion
tools on the following page of your site:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Help_on_Bibliographic_Record_Page#E…
Thanks for your time.
Best regards,
Taras Push
The Atlantis Word Processor Team
http://www.AtlantisWordProcessor.com
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since the topic has come up on the "posted" list,
i'd like to reiterate my request that the names of
graphics be included in the plain-text versions...
that way, the various viewer-programs that use
the plain-text version of the files will be able to
incorporate the graphics into their renderings...
-bowerbird
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i said:
> ok, who can tell me why this review is important?
nobody wants to bite, eh? that's ok, i understand...
it's this phrase:
> What sets the app apart from most of its competition
> is how it takes the cold, forbidding, and ugly type so
> typical of public-domain e-books and makes it gorgeous.
there you go, folks. eucalyptus takes your "cold, forbidding,
and ugly type" and turns it into something that is "gorgeous".
what the reviewer doesn't say, because he probably doesn't
recognize the significance of it, is that eucalyptus does this
transformational process without the aid of any _markup_...
that's because the programmer has realized the zen of the
"non-markup" inside project gutenberg's plain-text format.
of course, you guys all understand this very well, because
i have patiently explained it to you over and over for years.
-bowerbird
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jim said:
> what is going wrong with it or with its installation
guiguts installation requires a mac user to drop into "terminal"
-- the linux command mode -- where a number of dependencies
need to be taken care of. this is not something that your "typical"
mac user does too often, if at all, so they aren't experienced with it.
and because some of the dependencies have dependencies as well,
it can get thorny.
and since debugging linux thorniness can be thoroughly convoluted,
it's very easy for everyone -- helper and helpee -- to get frustrated...
to get an idea about all of this, just visit the wiki pages on
installation:
> http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install
> http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install/Windows
> http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install/Mac
> http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install/Linux
the problem is largely circumvented for windows users, since
a binary is offered to them that shortcircuits a lot of the work.
(although they still have to install perl, and several "helpers",
e.g., aspell, aspell dictionaries, a graphics viewer, and jeebies.)
as a result, d.p. consistently finds itself short on "post-processors"
-- the stage where guiguts is used -- and not just because of the
trouble with guiguts (which is, once you get it going, not too bad),
but rather because the whole workflow is such a patchwork of crap,
and the post-processor is the person who has to clean up all of that.
-bowerbird
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jim said:
> If it is a tool that takes less than a day on my end to
reverse-engineer
> what is going wrong with it or with its installation then I’m
interested.
well, jim, as i said, this is just a _skeleton_.
none of the routines have been written yet.
(after all, i only just made the offer today.)
i mounted this merely to show that i am
operating in good faith, and ready to go,
just as soon as i get those 18 statements.
i'll consider your download to be the first.
current status: 1 requests.
-bowerbird
p.s. even in this skeletal form, however,
the app does indicate how the user can
traverse through the pages of the book,
with the text and scan for each in sync...
just click the arrow-buttons at the top,
or use the cursor-keys on the keyboard.
it also shows how the app will download
each of the scans from a remote source
as it becomes needed to perform the job.
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nice try, christine.
but i won't waste a substantial amount of time
programming a tool that nobody is gonna use.
what would be the point?
current status: 0 requests.
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got the skeleton done on my guiguts clone,
which i've named "gutsgooey" to be clear...
for the p.c.:
> http://z-m-l.com/gutsgooey/gutsgooey.exe
for linux:
> http://z-m-l.com/gutsgooey/gutsgooey.x86
for mac o.s.x.:
> http://z-m-l.com/gutsgooey/gutsgooey.zip
put it in its own folder, because it will download
the images associated with the embedded text...
(it has its own scan-image-viewer built-in, so
you don't have to fiddle with an external viewer,
like guiguts requires you to do. more convenient,
since it automatically synchs the text and image.)
type a number into the top box and press return
to jump automatically to the text for that page...
no testing done on it yet, but it runs on my mac...
current status: 0 requests.
installation instructions:
1. download.
2. decompress (mac only).
3. double-click.
-bowerbird
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