Thank you very much, Esther. Teresa
"Visualize whirled peas." On Apr 16, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Teresa, > > I think you'll have the best luck doing the ePub conversion with Pages, as > Mark suggests. I'll just mention that Jonathan Chacón did construct a > service to convert TXT, RTF, PDF and HTML format eBooks to ePub using scripts > to run Calibre in command line, and made it available at his web log site in > August 2010. The web page was: > http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/articulo.aspx?idA=1897 > There were headings in Spanish and English: > • "Servicio accesible de conversión a ePub para MacOS X" > • "accessible ePub conversion service for MacOS X" > This was the direct download link for the zip file on that page: > http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/archivos/id38/textConversionService.zip > > The problem is that this web site doesn't seem to be on-line currently, and > hasn't been when I tried it a few times recently. Jonathan has a new web > site that is accessed by his free iPhone RSS app (in Spanish), "Programar a > ciegas RSS" by Tyflos Accessible Software. > > My guess is that Pages will do a better conversion job for you, anyway, since > this was a generic conversion (without title, etc. information added). But I > just thought I would mention this. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Apr 16, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> >> Thanks, Mark. I'm going to try this. I'll post my results on this thread. >> Really appreciate your time with this. I'm very curious to know if I can >> replace my legacy notetaker with these methonds, to be honest. >> >> Take care, >> Teresa >> "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham >> >> On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:01 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >> >>> Hello Theresa, >>> >>> If you purchase the latest version of Pages from the Mac App Store for >>> approximately $10, you can save your work as either a PDF or an eBook. >>> >>> When saving, select EPUB and the help tag will say that the file will be >>> readable in iBooks. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of Teresa Cochran >>> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:26 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Don't Seem To Be Having Much Luck Reading brf-to-Epub in >>> IBooks; Anyone else? >>> >>> Hi, Mark, >>> It's a Mac Mini running Lion. >>> >>> Teresa >>> "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos >>> >>> On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:07 AM, M. Taylor wrote: >>> >>>> Theresa, >>>> >>>> Is your computer a Mac or a Windows PC? >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, Mark and all, >>>>> >>>>> Yes, and it doesn't work either. Interesting. So it's probably not the >>> brf format that's causing the trouble. >>>>> >>>>> Have you tried any other converters? I can't seem to get the hang of >>> Calibre in command-line. I think I'll try one of the online conversion tools >>> and see how that goes. >>>>> >>>>> Teresa >>>>> >>>>> "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. >>> Feynman >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Theresa, >>>>>> >>>>>> I do not use Stanza. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, have you tried saving a plain text file with a few sentences as >>> an eBook and test it in iBooks? >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> IBooks doesn't like the epub files that I produce, for some reason. >>> Here's what I do. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I open a brf file in TextEdit, copy all the text, open Stanza, choose >>> "new from clipboard" from the file menu, and save it as an Epub document in >>> my ITunes Books folder. I then sync it to my IPod. It says "unknown". I >>> experimented with changing the info tags so that they show the title and >>> author once I enter them in manually. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When I open IBooks, it hangs and is unresponsive. the Braille does not >>> display at all, and I get a few stuttered words when I turn on speech just >>> to experiment. (I'm aware speech can't read the books.) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So I'm wondering if I'm missing any steps somewhere. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Teresa >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte >>> Saga >>>>>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
