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ancalex · 06-11-2009, 04:03 AM

Sorry for this long absence from the forum but in may i was moving to a new apartment and I was very busy with the moving and the arrangements.
I was worked this day to port any2imp to vb express because the lack of good com support from autoit and also jscript has some limitations (especially the lack of byref support of com's callings).
In vb everything is working very well, the code is very similar to autoit so the porting was not a big problem.
That was in the middle of may.
From some long weeks now, I'm working to implement in the new any2imp a wysiwyg html editor to make last minute changes to the source file(s) before the imp generation.
Hard task.
There are many free solutions (wrappers, components for .net) based on mshtml for example
- http://itwriting.com/htmleditor/
- http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/
- http://groups.google.com/group/csexwb
but i tried also others, for example i tried even some javascript based programs.
I found some interesting things in my searches for example a beautiful html renderer from terrainformatica:
- http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/
So if you have some ideas/demands for/from this future editor please share your opinion with me.
What I want specifically from this editor:
- access to the header style made by SBPubX for changing the global layout of the ebook
- make changes like bold, italic, ... in text
- make changes for justifying text (left, right, justify, center) for paragraphs
- insert anchors, make (manually) tocs
- insert running headers, footers
- code cleaning
- render the html file with ebookwise like ttf fonts
I hope this is interesting enough.
I'm also thinking about not using the publisher's internal document converter but use this html2rtf converter
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx
Waiting for your opinions.

06-11-2009, 04:03 AM	#39
ancalex Member Posts: 21 Karma: 272 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Romania Device: ebookwise 1150	any2imp ported to VB Express 2008 Sorry for this long absence from the forum but in may i was moving to a new apartment and I was very busy with the moving and the arrangements. I was worked this day to port any2imp to vb express because the lack of good com support from autoit and also jscript has some limitations (especially the lack of byref support of com's callings). In vb everything is working very well, the code is very similar to autoit so the porting was not a big problem. That was in the middle of may. From some long weeks now, I'm working to implement in the new any2imp a wysiwyg html editor to make last minute changes to the source file(s) before the imp generation. Hard task. There are many free solutions (wrappers, components for .net) based on mshtml for example - http://itwriting.com/htmleditor/ - http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ - http://groups.google.com/group/csexwb but i tried also others, for example i tried even some javascript based programs. I found some interesting things in my searches for example a beautiful html renderer from terrainformatica: - http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/ So if you have some ideas/demands for/from this future editor please share your opinion with me. What I want specifically from this editor: - access to the header style made by SBPubX for changing the global layout of the ebook - make changes like bold, italic, ... in text - make changes for justifying text (left, right, justify, center) for paragraphs - insert anchors, make (manually) tocs - insert running headers, footers - code cleaning - render the html file with ebookwise like ttf fonts I hope this is interesting enough. I'm also thinking about not using the publisher's internal document converter but use this html2rtf converter http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RtfConverter.aspx Waiting for your opinions.