The usual automatic announcement went out to the Sugar-Devel list but I thought it might be appropriate to mention something here too.
The latest View Slides can now extract an image from a slide show and make a Journal entry with the correct MIME type. This was something that someone asked for awhile back. The need was to be able to distribute a collection of images such that individual images could be extracted and used to create a Memorize game, for example. View Slides also supports annotations and bookmarks (but not highlighting) much like Read Etexts does. I also fixed lots of bugs. I'm not saying ALL of them, but a lot. Read Etexts has a new filter script that lets you read ebooks in RTF format. This is useful to read the books in the Baen Free Library, which contains current and near current science fiction titles that you can download and read for free. Of the formats available for download, RTF is the easiest to support. I just convert it to a plain text file on the fly. The conversion is not perfect, but it is readable. So in addition to reading Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Stanley G. Weinbaum our learners can also read _The Two Faces of Tomorrow_ by James P. Hogan and other good stuff. James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
