01-13-2009, 11:12 PM | #1 |
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One last oeb2mobi test...
Hi,
I want to give oeb2mobi output ooooone last test on real devices before I start trying to convince Kovid that it's ready to release on the world. If you have the time, interest, and a Mobi-supporting device, please grab the attached files and give them a try. Special notes and items of interest:
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01-14-2009, 12:29 AM | #2 |
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I tested these using the Java MobiPocket Reader on Kindle, EZ Reader and iLiad. All these worked ok, although only the EZ Reader picked up all the extra guide items in The Prince and the Pauper (they all got the TOC, and all the TOCs were navigable).
Using FBReader on the iLiad and on the EZ Reader (OpenInkPot), the only problem was that FBReader does not detect the encoding and assumes it is Latin (Windows-1152). This causes some characters to display incorrectly, but this is a bug in FBReader which is fixed in the latest version. Using the latest FBReader 0.10.0 under Windows, The Three Musketeers worked and correctly detected the Unicode encoding. The other two crashed FBReader (although they worked on the iLad and OpenInkPot with earlier versions of FBReader). Perhaps this was because of the lack of compression? |
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01-14-2009, 04:43 AM | #3 |
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I've tested with my CyBook Gen3 64MB firmware 1.2 build 796
The Prince and the Pauper looks great. I like the cover image size (600x800) which fills the screen. The initial caps/smallcaps at the start of chapters works nicely. (Only at the very smallest display font size do the small caps display larger than they should) The superscript on the footnote links causes the line they are in to have extra leading. I took a look at your HTML, and I can't see a way around that. The "Goto" list is a bit odd: First Page, Start Reading, Begin Reading, Notes, Illustrations, Frontispiece, Contents, Title Page, Last Page The cover image isn't found by Stanza Desktop, but this might be because it's bigger than 63KiB, or it might just be a bug in Stanza. The Economist is very good. Certainly working OK and readable. The captions sometimes overlay the next line of text - this seems to be because of the tables used for the layout on the website. The first line indent of 3em seems excessive The cover image is only 590x750, but I guess that's Calibre. The Three Musketeers also looks very good. The small caps works. The contents is good. Apart from the cover size (not your doing) I can't fault it. Excellent work! |
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The Three Musketeers worked OK on my S60 phone. Jumping to external links works.
I think a title page is missing in the book. Goto first page will jump to the first text page and I think you should be able to see the title and author there. |
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Anyway, thanks for the help, and hopefully this will be in your hands soon! -Marshall |
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Other than that, the books look very much alike. The main difference is under the hood in the markup content itself. Because Mobipocket markup is so limited, I simplified the task of conversion by treating it as a formatting-only language. No markup semantics or block nesting are preserved -- everything is basically converted into a sequence of <p/> tags containing <font/> tags. |
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And of course, if you add something called "Start Reading" or "Beginning" or whatever to the guide, it will be duplicated, there will still be the special "Start Reading" link (and the one added by you won't be translated to different languages). |
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My idea was that you could always generate a title page from the meta data. It is better to have two "title" pages then none.
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a) Not add an additional "Begin Reading" guide item. b) Put an empty link to the desired "Start Reading" target at the beginning of the book. I also put a guide item with type="other.ms-firstpage", but no title. It does not appear in the Cybook's "Go to" menu, but I'm afraid it won't appear in other readers either... |
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The "other."-prefixed references without titles I'm actually dropping in the conversion code. I didn't think of just including them without titles -- if Mobipocket Desktop just ignores them then that's probably the most sensible thing to do. |
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As for the "text" item in the ePUB guide (and "other.ms-firstpage" in the mobi), I added them without titles in the hope that some readins software would use them in a way similar to the Cybook's "Start Reading", but I didn't really wanted to have some link with a fixed name there. You can of course do as you like with them, this is just an explanation of why I do that |
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