SJ, Could you give me a set of sample files which I can poke, chew, tear apart and figure out how to best support ? Also, what would be an image reader ? I am open to bug reports on the Image Viewer activity ;-). -sdg-
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need a real text/book/image reader on the XO, one that can read a > variety of formats including html, and that can work with archives of > compressed works (like wikibrowse). Has anyone worked with calibre? > Its interface would need a bit of simplification... > > SJ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:10 PM > Subject: Re: Open-source, cross-platform ePub reader > To: Liza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Breuel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thank you, Liza! Great to hear from you; glad you're enjoying the new > build. The software updater cheers me a lot, it just needs sound and > color... > > Kovid, I'd like to hear more about Calibre. Would you be interested > in working on an interface for the XO? I also copy Thomas Breuel, who > is thinking about the ideal readers for scanned documents that don't > have perfect text versions. Please note that one of our constraints > is size, and we'd like to be able to store texts in compressed formats > when not reading them. > > You might want to talk also with Joshua Gay, who has been helping olpc > with book issues for the past year and is heading to ck12.org in a > week to start building their author community... > > Regards, > SJ > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Liza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi SJ! I hope the new release and G1G1 prep have been going well. I >> got my XO back to life and I love the latest release -- it's a huge >> improvement. >> >> I've been corresponding with Kovid Goyal, the developer of Calibre >> (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/). His desktop software is a kind of >> Swiss Army Knife of ebook conversion tools, and he's just added a >> WebKit-based ebook viewer. I did a quick test with a CSS and >> image-heavy ePub and the rendering looked good. > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
