[ashkulz]

NOTE: impmake has now been renamed to ebookutils, and is hosted at http://gitorious.org/projects/ebookutils using Git, which should easily allow other developers to make changes. I plan to merge impserve, impmake, 2 new python utilities which replace ebw1150+rebcomm and pdfread under this umbrella.

This is impmake, a utility for creating ebooks for the 1100/1150/1200 from HTML source files. It requires the installation of eBook Publisher. In case this is not installed, you may get an error:

    Execution failed at src/impmake.c:159 while attempting to execute
        dhCreateObject(L"SBPublisher.Project", NULL, &impProject)

To compile the code, you will need MinGW with MSys. Just switch to the directory where you extracted the files, and type "make" from Msys command prompt (There's a precompiled version available in the download).

Usage: impmake [-OPTIONS] FILES [...]

-h, --help     Show this help message.
-s, --save     Specify the project to save as.
-a, --author   Specify the book's author.
-t, --title    Specify the book's title.
-c, --category Specify the book's category.
-d, --out-dir  Specify the output directory.
-n, --name     Specify the book name.
--isbn         Specify the book's ISBN
--pubdate      Specify the book's publishing date
--publisher    Specify the book's publisher
--language     Specify the language for the book.

--1100, --1150, --1200, --oeb
               Specify the target device to use for book creation.

--zoom-small, --zoom-large, --zoom-both
               Specify the zoom states to be supported in the book

--no-underline Specify that links should not be underlined.
--no-img-conv  Specify that image auto conversion to JPG should be disabled.
--no-img-scale Specify that image pre scaling should be disabled.
--compress     Specify that the compression is to be used.
--keep-anchors Specify that link anchors should be kept in output.

I plan to host this later at SourceForge or something similiar, after trying to coordinate a super-archive of all the tools currently available for the REB 1100/1150/1200 eg. libreb, rbmake, rebcomm, eb1150, and the planned-for browsing proxy.

Changes in 0.2:
- convert relative to absolute paths when referring to files/directories
- add a --log option which generate a log from the publisher itself (can be useful for debugging errors)

Changes in ebookutils-0.3:
- impmake: add an -f option to specify the files to be included, with one file per line
- impserve: handle paging of booklist requests
- impserve: handle downloading of IMP books which are sent as an attachment (direct download of IMP from mobileread works)
- impserve: implement a plugin system and provide 2 default plugins to change the URL/content before being sent to the device.
- impserve: refactored the code heavily, please run impserve/run.py from python.

To get it working in WINE, you'll need to perform the following:

1. Remove or backup your existing wine folder (e.g. using rm -fR ~/.wine)
2. Download winetricks and run "sh winetricks vcrun6"
3. Install eBook Publisher
4. run "sh winetricks dcom98" and click Yes twice.

Now you can try running wine impmake.exe <other-params>