Re: epub files and debian?

Hi everyone, Profound thanks for a most illuminating thread. I will share, in case it helps others, what I finally did. Since I use a shell service based on Debian, no Linux box as of yet, I sought another way to get the files into other formats, rtf for example allowing me to run unrtf, or

Re: epub files and debian?

Brian: > Siard: > > Joe Pfeiffer: > > > I'd expect the sticking point to be that the actual content in an > > > EPUB is HTML, and evince doesn't do HTML. > > > > MuPDF does EPUB as well as HTML, which indicates that this could be > > true. From the description: > > "MuPDF is a document viewer

Re: epub files and debian?

On Thu 25 Aug 2016 at 12:01:39 +0200, Siard wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer: > > Ben Finney: > > > Dan Ritter: > > > > evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub > > > > files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files > > > > are opened by evince". > > > > > > Bah,

Re: epub files and debian?

Joe Pfeiffer: > Ben Finney: > > Dan Ritter: > > > evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub > > > files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files > > > are opened by evince". > > > > Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in > >

Re: epub files and debian?

Ben Finney writes: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub >> files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are >> opened by evince". > > Bah, you're right. This is a

Re: epub files and debian?

Dan Ritter writes: > evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub > files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are > opened by evince". Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in the Gnome BTS

Re: epub files and debian?

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:34:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kushal Kumaran writes: > > > Ben Finney writes: > > > > > Dan Ritter writes: > > > > > >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML > > >>

Re: epub files and debian?

Kushal Kumaran writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > Dan Ritter writes: > > > >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML > >> in a ZIP file. Unzip it, then deal with HTML as you wish. > > > > Many EPub

Re: epub files and debian?

Ben Finney writes: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML >> in a ZIP file. Unzip it, then deal with HTML as you wish. > > Many EPub files that I find, don't open correctly in Evince (the default

Re: epub files and debian?

Dan Ritter writes: > However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML > in a ZIP file. Unzip it, then deal with HTML as you wish. Many EPub files that I find, don't open correctly in Evince (the default Gnome document viewer). Are there various formats that

Re: epub files and debian?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:02:43PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 23/08/2016 à 19:36, Karen Lewellen a écrit : > > Hi folks, > > is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts > > epub into text? > > Thanks, > > Karen > > Calibre (graphical reader) can convert books from

Re: epub files and debian?

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > Let me be sure I understand you. > If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file > finding an html file inside? If you don't have an ebook reader installed, then file

Re: epub files and debian?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 01:36:30PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts epub > into text? > Thanks, > Karen Hello Karen, The mighty `pandoc` does. Command line, as easy as pandoc file.epub file.md

Re: epub files and debian?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Patrick Wiseman a écrit : > > You might want to rename with a .zip extension. The command line tool, > > unzip, used to require a zip extension. > > I do not doubt your statement, but it

Re: epub files and debian?

Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Patrick Wiseman a écrit : > You might want to rename with a .zip extension. The command line tool, > unzip, used to require a zip extension. I do not doubt your statement, but it is no longer true, and has been for quite a long time. Shell completion may get in

Re: epub files and debian?

Le 23/08/2016 à 19:36, Karen Lewellen a écrit : > Hi folks, > is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts > epub into text? > Thanks, > Karen Calibre (graphical reader) can convert books from epub to txt either one at a time or by lot. I am not aware of a CLI epup to

Re: epub files and debian?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > Let me be sure I understand you. > If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file > finding an html file inside? > or do I need to save the file as a zip one first? > Thanks, > Karen

Re: epub files and debian?

Hi, Let me be sure I understand you. If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file finding an html file inside? or do I need to save the file as a zip one first? Thanks, Karen On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Nicolas George wrote: Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Karen

Re: epub files and debian?

Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Karen Lewellen a écrit : > is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts epub > into text? EPUB files are just Zip files containing a few standardized text file and the bulk of the text as HTML. Use unzip or any other archive manager to

epub files and debian?

Hi folks, is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts epub into text? Thanks, Karen