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Originally Posted by kacir
There is no such reader as far as I know, besides a notebook or a tablet.
What you see here is an UGLY HACK that might or might not work for particular .odt file.
odt files and epub files are both .zip archives, and have similar structure. The similarity ends there.
Take an odf file, rename it to .odf.zip and have as look inside. Do the same with epub.
You can not simply unzip an epub and then zip it again. There is one file (I think it is manifest) that has to go in with zero compression and has to be at the beginning of the archive. If you need to unzip, edit and then put back together an epub file you can use Calibre context menu.
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opening .odt (openoffice writer) files
works perfectly with: adobeviewer (formats bold, italic, headers (OK, but NO auto-wrap, sometimes...), auto-wrapping, bullets); fine to read.
of course: no pics, no tables, table of contents, references (links), etc...
NOTHING WORKS WITH: fbreader, fbreader180, coolreader
1)
file extensions out of the box...
.odt.epub OK
renamed .epub OK
using script renameODT.app renames (copies) all .odt files to .odt.epub
as suggested by kacir and script alike unzip script by review
2)
changing entension.cfg...
several options tested...
odt:@ODT_file:1:AdobeViewer.app:ICON_EPUB
odt:@EPUB_file:1:AdobeViewer.app:ICON_EPUB
.odt is 'recognised', but can't open...
files recognised as EPUB files, but can't be opened (reported as 'broken')
3)
MY solution:
adapt 'extensions.cfg' like this:
odt:@EPUB_file:1:renameODT.app:ICON_EPUB
odt.epub:@EPUB_file:1:AdobeViewer.app:ICON_EPUB
epub:@EPUB_file:1:cr3-pb.app,AdobeViewer.app,fbreader180.app,fbreader.ap p:ICON_EPUB
AND:
Put renameODT.app in "search path" like /system/bin; applications dir doesn't work, tried several ways like absolute path and putting path to renameODT.app in quotes, but to no avail!
EXTRA FUN:
I prefer CoolReader for reading epubs (for now, I think, just testing...)
.odt.epub ONLY works with AdobeViewer and having the double extension actually works,
so now in each case the only correct / preferred reader is opened
first time opening an .odt file starts rename app (thanx kacir for this tip!) and renames all files. Next time (apparently) opening the same book opens the actual .odt.epub for reading
In general conclusion, it depends of course on what you expect from .odt reading. If you want ALL, then just reformat your files on your computer BEFORE copying to the pocketbook, but else, for me, this quite a usable solution (tried with some 10 documents, simple and more complex and up to some 20 pages)
of course, nobody is ever gonna use this... ;-P
pini