any interest in previewer plugin?

KevinH · 04-16-2016, 12:36 PM

Given the complexity of epub viewers and designing epub3s, I was wondering if there is any interest in an output plugin called something like "Preview-In", that would make a copy of the current epub inside Sigil and pass it to a user selected epub reading app already installed on the user's system.

The plugn would unpack or epub up the contents and use python to load the calibre ebook-viewer, or ibooks, or azardi, or chrome with readium, or whatever viewer they specified locally, etc

Of course, this would only replace the eqivalent of a file-save-as and then manually launching an epub reader and then navigating to the just saved epub, so it may not be a big help. That said, it would more easily allow a full book visual inspection of book currently in Sigil.

Thoughts?

KevinH

Divingduck · 04-16-2016, 02:36 PM

Something like calibre plugin open with would be nice. From my point of view I like to choose applications like ADE etc. to check ebooks.

04-16-2016, 12:36 PM	#1
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,071 Karma: 6361556 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	any interest in previewer plugin? Given the complexity of epub viewers and designing epub3s, I was wondering if there is any interest in an output plugin called something like "Preview-In", that would make a copy of the current epub inside Sigil and pass it to a user selected epub reading app already installed on the user's system. The plugn would unpack or epub up the contents and use python to load the calibre ebook-viewer, or ibooks, or azardi, or chrome with readium, or whatever viewer they specified locally, etc Of course, this would only replace the eqivalent of a file-save-as and then manually launching an epub reader and then navigating to the just saved epub, so it may not be a big help. That said, it would more easily allow a full book visual inspection of book currently in Sigil. Thoughts? KevinH

04-16-2016, 02:36 PM	#2
Divingduck Wizard Posts: 1,166 Karma: 1410083 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Germany Device: Sony PRS-650	Something like calibre plugin open with would be nice. From my point of view I like to choose applications like ADE etc. to check ebooks. Attached Thumbnails

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