jęd,
I have a been looking at different manners to invoke study flashcards and/or wiki style information format into the iLiad, see this thread:
Flash Cards - The Study Variety & Wikis? I have just glimpsed over some of the help authoring programs/editors (.chm) out there. I would like to know more of your experiences with your .chm files as it represents a possible solution to the flashcard/wiki function. It might also be able to address on of my most important iLiad/ereader requirements - the biggest being bookmark support in PDF's.
Would it be possible to export a PDF file with bookmarks (bookmarks specifically, not links) into a .chm file and then export that to a html that the iLiad would support?
Also do you know of a good .chm/help file editor that is WYSIWYG and will allow embedding images that will work on the Windoze platform? One that could export to a html file (I think I might have seen some that have this capacity) could save a step. One program that is out there that is similar is Treepad. This is commercial, with a free version, it would be nice to find something that is open source. There are some "note taking" software out there that has similar characteristics.
Any help that you can tender would be greatly appreciated.
On a side note, I would think that a port of an ereader program that have been working on different PDA's would be great. For one the file sizes are relatively smaller (shorter load times?), they seem to support reflowing of text. They support bookmarks and links, and in some cases you can do your own highlighting and or other annotation. You can also in some cases put in your own links/bookmarks on the fly.
Admittedly this will again require using additional programs to convert different formats, something that seems an anathema to iRex's original intent to be able to natively view commonly used formats, (why RTF is not a part of this is beyond me - of course .chm would be nice as well!).
In any case, I will accept anything at this point as long as it works well & correctly and is not overwhelmingly time consuming.
I am trying to maintain my patience. I understand that all of this is not easy. I am hoping that this device will come to full fruit this year. I will attempt to maintain a sense of optimism to that end.