05-07-2009, 03:51 AM | #1 |
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ePub native supports comes to Win Mobile Devices
Hi Guys,
ZuluReader will support epub files within a week or so. Basic RTF's (no tables or images and with a uniform font size) render really well now. So I am full speed ahead on supporting epubs. The speed at which I'm getting through this is a testament to the epub format... it really does rock! In fact once I'm finished I think I'll drop RTF support altgoether. The DRM free ebook website I am developing (ZuluExpress) is also going to be converted to an epub only zone. That's how confident I am that the epub format is going to very quickly become THE format for eBooks. Steve (ondabeach) You can download ZuluReader here www.zuluexpress.com |
05-07-2009, 08:46 AM | #2 |
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that's great news steve ! thanks for the info, and thanks for so actively supporting and promoting the epub format ! the more plateforms can use epub, the better, and the more people adopt it the faster it will become a universal standard format. and that's good news for all of us.
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05-07-2009, 09:19 AM | #3 |
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I don't think the installer works. I sent an email.
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05-07-2009, 05:17 PM | #4 |
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Thanks Zelda, I'll post in a week or so when zulu is epub ready and the update is available.
Nate, I got your email and have replied with a couple of questions for you. Cheers Guys. |
05-18-2009, 12:36 PM | #5 |
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Steve, you might want to check out these Harlequin ePub files (link is to MR post), to see if you can get them to work on ZuluReader. They may not be standard ePub, and they do not validate.
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05-19-2009, 07:42 PM | #6 | |
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Prompted by your post in ePub dictionaries
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Another good one is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, from the Adobe Digital Editions sample ebook library. You need to use Adobe Digital Editions to download this, but it is DRM-free. Text wrapped around images and the mouses tail, see ebook-viewer: Open source, crossplatform viewer for EPUB, LIT, MOBI, etc (note that the link to the ebook no longer works). Some of this formatting may be problematic on a small screen, but you need good fallbacks. |
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05-20-2009, 03:33 AM | #7 |
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Thanks wallcraft, I'll download those books and try them in ZuluReader. I just finished tweaking ZR to read an epub from Harlequin which exposed me to a number of things I needed to modify. It most of a day but ZR now renders them very nicely.
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I submit that, while a digital publisher can certainly consider adding what enticing visuals they can, they should concentrate on providing the text of the literature first, and treating the rest as optional elements. IOW, Steve, don't knock yourself out trying to figure out how to wrap text around a mouse's tail or manipulate font sizes within an inch of their lives. |
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I agree, which is why I mentioned "fallbacks". The important part is that the Reader needs to be able to gracefully discard the "frills".
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05-22-2009, 07:11 PM | #12 |
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Thanks for all the input guys, you all raise good points. I will endeavour to recreate the author's work as faithfully as possible given the dimensions of the small screens on mobile devices. And as you say wallcraft, to 'gracefully' discard formatting which is not practical whilst reproducing the text itself. Over time I will be able to improve the way ZR renders epubs, FYI ZR does not use a html viewer control, I simply use a picturebox and my code analyses the documents which comprise the epub and determines hot to render the text and images. This is a lot more work but it gives me total control of how the result is rendered and to provide the user with formatting options.
Any and all input is most welcome, thanks again for your help. |
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I thought you said that you were going to do a Windows CE version. Is it ready?
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05-27-2009, 05:00 AM | #14 |
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On the site now.
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