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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
oh, i would be very interested in a new tool to create epubs, particularly if it includes image support !!! and i think there would be quite a lot of people interested in that, in fact. have you seen some of the suggestions in the epub poll thread ? (for instance jellby's). i hope you do find the time for it. please keep us posted. i don't care about bd support so i'd be interested even in early versions with just basic features. |
I plan on making the first public release when I have decent epub output working. After all, the driving force is creating an epub editor, and I do understand that a lot of people don't care for LRF now that there's an open and future-oriented standard for ebooks, and it's supported on the PRS-505. But LRF is a good format for the Reader, in and of itself. I have very few gripes with it... and one has to think of the PRS-500 owners.
Also, not everybody has a Reader, and if one's to create a replacement for BD, one should support the other, more obscure formats. I plan to get to them all eventually.
But creating a great epub editor is top priority. Creating an application that can replace BD for all tasks is number two. Number three is creating a body of portable, well-designed, well-performing and
very well documented C++ code for all those formats, so other people can plug it in their own (open source) applications and have various output options. I expect that creating an editor that exports full-featured LRF will entail walking through the fires of Hell... there's very little documentation on it. So if I have to struggle to figure it out and support it, it would be great if I can spare other people the trouble.
Oh, and I plan on providing binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux. There's been enough of platform-locked applications already... I don't plan on making another.
EDIT: And thanks for the link to the poll thread, haven't noticed it before.