A canonical set of test files is a good idea. we don't have one atm, but bundles and large collections are indicated below:
It seems to me we want a single reader to support reading/bookmarking books and texts from a collection, regardless of format. Common formats include : a pdf of images, or a series of images (see the icdl books currently in the icdl.xol library bundle; currently they are a set of images in a directory with a javascript viewer) : plain text, or a pdf of plain text, or simple markdown (gutenberg files are good examples) : html, or formatted text (gutenberg files and other current library bundles are examples - we don't need to launch an entire browser to show a set of simple html) : carefully formatted pdfs, with images and equations (see the current wikibooks.xol bundle, or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pdf_files) : djvu books ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Djvu_files ) SJ On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
