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Bob Russell · 09-23-2006, 10:18 AM

iLiad owner "b_k" has created a Windows script for use with converting comics for reading on the iLiad.

Comic2iLiad "is a AutoIT-Script1) to generate HMTL-based content for the iRex iLiad. It is not a very small script and it is probably poorly written but it works. So far, it is good enough for me, however I’m always open for ideas to make this thing better."

There are some caveats, however. This script might not something that a computer newbie would want to use, and it looks like it's only for Windows. From the site:

* AutoIT has no UTF-8 support, so the HTML-pages are encoded in ANSI (should be no problem I think), as is the manifest.xml (this has to be converted to UTF-8 manually). So far, there is no sort of visualization of the on-going progress of the copied files or the generated HTML-files.

* The images you want to have processed should already be sorted by the filename. Something like YYYYMMDD.png or XXX.png (001.png, 002.png,....) should work. But there is nothing to sort the images before processing, it has to be done by yourself.

Thanks to Doctorow for bringing it to our attention in a forum post. (No, he's not "the" Cory Doctorow. Just a fan.)

09-23-2006, 10:18 AM	#1
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Scripts to move comics to Iliad e-ink reader iLiad owner "b_k" has created a Windows script for use with converting comics for reading on the iLiad. Comic2iLiad "is a AutoIT-Script1) to generate HMTL-based content for the iRex iLiad. It is not a very small script and it is probably poorly written but it works. So far, it is good enough for me, however I’m always open for ideas to make this thing better." There are some caveats, however. This script might not something that a computer newbie would want to use, and it looks like it's only for Windows. From the site: * AutoIT has no UTF-8 support, so the HTML-pages are encoded in ANSI (should be no problem I think), as is the manifest.xml (this has to be converted to UTF-8 manually). So far, there is no sort of visualization of the on-going progress of the copied files or the generated HTML-files. * The images you want to have processed should already be sorted by the filename. Something like YYYYMMDD.png or XXX.png (001.png, 002.png,....) should work. But there is nothing to sort the images before processing, it has to be done by yourself. Thanks to Doctorow for bringing it to our attention in a forum post. (No, he's not "the" Cory Doctorow. Just a fan.)