re: [gutvol-d] re: accurately converted to any possible format
greg said:
I don't understand. Where is the URL that does conversion on the fly from that file to arbitrary formats? PDF, HTML...others... with user-specified settings.
there is no u.r.l. conversions are done by my viewer-app. you don't need to be involved, since your users can do it all by themselves.
There's enough space on /data1, where your home directory is, to make your own copy of as much the collection as you want in your own directory.
great! i'll figure it out. thank you! -bowerbird
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:34:46AM -0400, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
greg said:
I don't understand. Where is the URL that does conversion on the fly from that file to arbitrary formats? PDF, HTML...others... with user-specified settings.
there is no u.r.l. conversions are done by my viewer-app. you don't need to be involved, since your users can do it all by themselves.
If it's not online and on the fly, then it's not what I've been talking about. Sorry. You seem to be saying that there is exactly one application in the world that can change a ZML-formatted eBook into HTML, PDF and a variety of other formats. That application is your viewer application, which has already been discussed in gutvol-d. If/when there is such an application that can run on our Unix/Linux servers, operate on the fly, and integrate with the Web back end, it will be great to provide access to PG readers. We've done this for plucker. We have not done it for, for example, text-to-speech because nearly all of the products are for standalone WinPCs. (I've wrestled with Festival somewhat and know it can do the job, but can't figure it out myself. Help invited!). I do think we can do it for Braille with nfbtrans, and I've been negligent in helping Marcello to set it up. Where can users who might be interested download your viewer app from? I don't see it on the snowy site. If it's out there, you could write a little blurb for the PG newsletter inviting people to try it. -- Greg
Greg wrote:
invited!). I do think we can do it for Braille with nfbtrans, and I've been negligent in helping Marcello to set it up.
Yes, NFBTrans will do conversion to Braille on the fly. I did try to get volunteers to check the output but got no takers. The problem is trying to guess at what formatting commands to send. You can format the Braille files a certain way but it requires trial and error. I'm not a programmer and know little about setting it up. It may be that you have to cat a file of dot commands to set formatting with the PG text to get useful output. There are examples to produce textbooks and other embosser files, but that kind of formatting is not helpful for people using PDAs etc. Yes, this can most definitely be done though automatically.
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