12-29-2006, 01:12 PM | #1 |
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New tool: BBeB Binder
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I just posted a new program that I wrote to create BBeB files. It's called "BBeB Binder", and it's homepage is at http://code.google.com/p/bbebinder. This version will read in HTML files, and allow you to modify and then convert them to BBeB's. The version that I'm working on now will take in text files as well, and attempt to reconstruct the paragraphs and chapters. My next plan is to handle images, drawing elements, automatic table-of-contents generation, and to produce more aesthetic books with headers, footers, chapter beginnings, etc. Sorry it's a .Net 2.0 application that relies on Internet Explorer for the HTML parsing - so this means that it's a Windows only program. Would you guys mind installing BBeB Binder and giving it a spin? Thanks! |
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It looks promising.
It loaded the sample html file fine and one other html file I had but it crashes on every other html file I try (including the README.htm file thats included with the program. |
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Is there a set of supported HTML tags?
It crashes for me too on the Readme.htm but I was able to convert a webpage I saved with Firefox. |
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Sounds cool, I'll check it out this evening. Sounds like something I wouldn't mind collaborating on as well - if you need a hand, let me know - we could get it importing all kinds of formats for export to BBeB.
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Think I might have the crash fixed
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Anyway, it handles the Readme.htm and other html files it crashed on before. I'll try a few more html files to mack sure... I'm also just going to convert a book to BBeB format and I'll let you know how it goes. ----- Edit ---- OK, conversion was simple - easy to adjust the font size. Looks good on the reader too. In addition, the lrf is a third the size of the html file. Some things I noticed: 1) The toolbar buttons need better tooltips 2) Add a search/replace function (some of my html files have wrong characters in which it would be nice to change) 3) Should the right/left/centre text justification buttons work yet? If so then they appear to be broken as the didn't seem to do anything. Apart from that, the interface is nice and intuitive, and easy to use. Good job - will be converting more books over now ! Andy Last edited by AndyQ; 12-29-2006 at 03:58 PM. |
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Worked fine on a Gutenburg book I had (a-per-fdeath_mys.htm). Looking forward to TOC & images. Good work.
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A couple of others whilst doing some converting: Can you make the Title default to either the name of the file or blank rather than the first word (or Default) When you open a new document, it asks you if you want to save the changes and then tries to save as .mht. Not sure if this is possible but could you have a button that joins all selected lines together? And finally, any idea when images will be supported? This is more of a nice to have however as it already does 95% of what I want it to do! Last edited by AndyQ; 12-29-2006 at 05:09 PM. |
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For text files I search for a line like this: Author: AuthorName And will set the <title> attribute to this value. Quote:
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