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Originally Posted by Valloric
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.
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those are all excellent points, and i agree with them, but epub can be converted using calibre or other tools (mobipocket desktop app converts it into mobi already, calibre soon will as well) and there are a plethora of excellent conversion tools already (from mobi for instance you can make an imp file in about 3 clicks and 15 seconds using nrapallo's excellent tools) so i'm not sure it's really so important to support bd at all ; better to make a really good, valid epub file, and then convert that to any other formats (lrf, mobi, imp) necessary.
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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 creatign 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.
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bravo for all those intentions and initiatives ! i think that's brilliant and you'd definitely definitely be fulfilling a very real need.
i do recommend you take a look at what exists already before you get started, to save yourself some work if you can use existing tools. as i said, there are a lot of really conversion tools already that you might be able to build from or integrate into your tool. i really think you could easily replace bd by creating just an epub editor with additional conversion capabilities (that is one of the beautiful things about epub, after all...), and most of those tools are already available (calibre, mobi2imp, etc.) you might want to speak with nrapallo as well, he's one of the resident imp experts and he has authored quite a lot of conversion etc. tools himself, he might be able to give you some good info. i can't wait to see what you come up with !
EDIT ok, some of this was addressed while i was writing by your previous post, so you can just pretend i didn't say those bits.
