Hello, On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A canonical set of test files is a good idea. we don't have one atm, > but bundles and large collections are indicated below: >
Ok, this would do for the time being. > 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 Hmm - this calls for another thread, but do you think bookmarks should be shareable with others ? > : 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) I took a look and this seems to be a fairly straightforward set of images. Do you think it will be OK if we use a simple file format to make a collection of these images (maybe page1.jpg, page2.jpg... a zip) and call it something like book1.icdl or something like that. If we do so, I believe I can patch the Read backend to handle such a format easily. > : plain text, or a pdf of plain text, or simple markdown (gutenberg > files are good examples) Ok - this is doable. > : 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) Is there any kind of pagination that we want in here, or do we want a single, long scrolling document ? > : carefully formatted pdfs, with images and equations (see the current > wikibooks.xol bundle, or > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pdf_files) We handle this already in Read (image heavy in PDF is a pain though - and I plan on restricting the zoom factor in read to 200% to counter this.. I know, ugly hack :-) > : djvu books ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Djvu_files ) > We are supposed to handle this Read as well. I'll investigate how well we do this. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
