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kichigai · 07-24-2011, 04:08 PM

I was wondering if there was any interest in adding ZIM conversion support? I frequently find a topic of interest on the Wikipedia, and go off and use the Book Creator to condense a ton of related articles to a single "book." However, the Wikipedia, for some reason, only supports three formats for exporting: ODT (which doesn't always play nice, and used to lack images, but otherwise is an ideal starting point), PDFs (no Table of Contents, some pages are rasterized images, works out of the box on my PRS-500 but with poor reflowing), and ZIM files. Since ODT seems to be hit-or-miss, PDF is really the only reliable way I have of getting these "books" on my e-reader.

I was wondering, though, since libzim is an open source library, if there was any interest in supporting that file format for conversion? As far as I can tell, it's a more authentic conversion, and on the inside, it's basically HTML with images, which should present no problem to the existing conversion engine. Any feelings on this one?

07-24-2011, 04:08 PM	#1
kichigai Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Minnesota Metro Device: PRS-500	Feature Request: ZIM Conversion Support I was wondering if there was any interest in adding ZIM conversion support? I frequently find a topic of interest on the Wikipedia, and go off and use the Book Creator to condense a ton of related articles to a single "book." However, the Wikipedia, for some reason, only supports three formats for exporting: ODT (which doesn't always play nice, and used to lack images, but otherwise is an ideal starting point), PDFs (no Table of Contents, some pages are rasterized images, works out of the box on my PRS-500 but with poor reflowing), and ZIM files. Since ODT seems to be hit-or-miss, PDF is really the only reliable way I have of getting these "books" on my e-reader. I was wondering, though, since libzim is an open source library, if there was any interest in supporting that file format for conversion? As far as I can tell, it's a more authentic conversion, and on the inside, it's basically HTML with images, which should present no problem to the existing conversion engine. Any feelings on this one?