Because I was getting tired of always copy-pasting manifest.xml files, and editing them with notepad to get a pdf or folder with description and icon, I wrote another little java app to do just that.
The program can create and edit manifests for documents and directories. It allows to add a title, description and image to the manifest (note that you can use line breaks in the description). The image will be copied; You can also resize it to 69x93, set the background color and convert it to gray-scale (the iLiad's 16 levels). It is also possible to reset the current reading position to page 1.
Note that it is possible to drag & drop files and text to the text boxes.
It should work in all OS'es (I only tested Windows XP though), and requires JRE 1.4 (or above).
Watch out when you create a directory manifest: It moves all directory contents to a subdirectory, because that allows us to have a folder with manifest, but without manifest.xml in the file list (as I
found out earlier). So don't try this with system folders!
Little request: Does anybody have the original images used by the iLiad (for pdfs, folders, ...)? I wanted to edit them a little, but couldn't find them in the sources (and I don't have shell access).
Updates:
v1.0 (11-04-2007): initial release
v1.1 (12-04-2007): bugfix
v1.2 (12-04-2007): bugfix (xml tags are case sensitive ... I didn't know that)
v1.3 (13-04-2007): another bugfix (problems with encodings)
v2.0 (06-05-2007): Creating manifest for dir no longer moves content to subdir, allow multiple source files (useful for mobipocket ebooks).