Mobiperl Mobiperl - Perl tools for handling MobiPocket files

[Ortep]

Originally Posted by tompe

So what would be useful for other people to have? Which information is useful? What is the best way to display it? Since there are so many way to do things I will add features that people find useful and which I think is sensible.

One thing I added myself with a few lines of code is default settings for mobi2html.

So when I use the syntax "mobi2html MyBook"

It will assume prc as extention and the output will be placed the subdirectory MyBookHtml. It also generates the raw output in the same directory with the name "Mybook Raw.HTML" Both versions can come in handy when you are oing some cleaning up.

Another nice thing for new or inexperienced users can be that you print the syntax on screen when there are no parameters at all. It is something I do when I create programs. When you use a tool every day it is obvious what the syntax is. But even my own tools that I use only once every month or every three monts need sometimes a small reminder

[Gudy]

Originally Posted by Ortep

Another nice thing for new or inexperienced users can be that you print the syntax on screen when there are no parameters at all. It is something I do when I create programs. When you use a tool every day it is obvious what the syntax is. But even my own tools that I use only once every month or every three monts need sometimes a small reminder

Yes, please! Needing to look at the Perl source code to learn about the possible parameters sucks, doubly so for the Windows binary builds. Having the tools print out usage information when started without any parameters (or with any one of -? /? -h /h -help /help --help) would add a lot for the casual user.

Since I want to do some testing for the mobils binary under Windows, expect a Windows binary build from me sometime this evening. (Unless someone beats me to it, of course.)

[Ortep]

Originally Posted by Gudy

Yes, please! Needing to look at the Perl source code to learn about the possible parameters sucks,

The code is easy, something like:

# Get parameters

$bookname=shift @ARGV;
$param1=shift @ARGV;
$param2=shift @ARGV;


# When not enough parameters, generate user help

unless ( $bookname ) {
    die
    "\nProgram to extract html from mobifile\n
    Version xxx.yyy.zzz
    Author: Me
    Usage: Mobi2html bookname --parameter1 --parameter2 --etc\n";
}

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Ortep

Another nice thing for new or inexperienced users can be that you print the syntax on screen when there are no parameters at all. It is something I do when I create programs. When you use a tool every day it is obvious what the syntax is. But even my own tools that I use only once every month or every three monts need sometimes a small reminder

I always do this for things I write in my work but here I forgot about it. I will add something to the next release.

I will think about default directory also.

[TallMomof2]

I think I'll take the plunge and install Perl, this is getting quite interesting programming-wise.

[Gudy]

Originally Posted by Gudy

Since I want to do some testing for the mobils binary under Windows, expect a Windows binary build from me sometime this evening.

And here it is (hopefully, anyway. The "Manage Attachments" window doesn't work reliably for me when attachments go beyond a certain size).

The mobils binary works just fine under Windows. The only possible drawback is that the output contains slashes instead of backslashes as the separator, but that is easily dealt with if you want to process the output in any way.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by Gudy

And here it is (hopefully, anyway. The "Manage Attachments" window doesn't work reliably for me when attachments go beyond a certain size).

Same thing here! I recently uploaded 10 MB in attachments and it took forever. At first the upload speed is fine, at about 100 Mbytes/sec, but near the middle it goes down to 8 Kbytes/sec and stays there until it's finished.

I've heard of 'scarce resource allocation' schemes, but this seems a bit much!

How about allowing 'regulars' to post at a higher upload speed? Kind of discourages a guy from posting good stuff...

[wmaurer]

I received my Asus EEE yesterday, and have trashed the preinstalled Xandros and installed Ubuntu. I have the mobiperl scripts working, though it took some time to get all the prerequisites installed.

Tompe, I've been putting together a simple eBook in html. For this book I don't want the first line of the paragraph indented, but the html2mobi script is doing so. Is this an option in the mobipocket file format?

-Wayne

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by wmaurer

I received my Asus EEE yesterday, and have trashed the preinstalled Xandros and installed Ubuntu. I have the mobiperl scripts working, though it took some time to get all the prerequisites installed.

Tompe, I've been putting together a simple eBook in html. For this book I don't want the first line of the paragraph indented, but the html2mobi script is doing so. Is this an option in the mobipocket file format?

-Wayne

It is likely that the html contains & nbsp; characters at the beginning of the paragraphs. Mobi doesn't support CSS so they can be crude in formatting sometimes.

Dale

[tompe]

Originally Posted by wmaurer

Tompe, I've been putting together a simple eBook in html. For this book I don't want the first line of the paragraph indented, but the html2mobi script is doing so. Is this an option in the mobipocket file format?

-Wayne

The default in MobiPocket is to use paragraphs with first line indented. html2mobi does not add anything related to this.

http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...tification.htm

explains how to avoid indentation (one way is <p width= 0>).

[wmaurer]

Okay, thanks Tompe. Now I feel a little silly for not looking at the Mobipocket documentation. I won't make the same mistake again

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

Same thing here! I recently uploaded 10 MB in attachments and it took forever. At first the upload speed is fine, at about 100 Mbytes/sec, but near the middle it goes down to 8 Kbytes/sec and stays there until it's finished.

What sort of internet connection do you have which gives you upload speeds of 100 MBytes/sec?

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What sort of internet connection do you have which gives you upload speeds of 100 MBytes/sec?

That upload speed is just at the beginning , but I have an extreme internet connection with (theoretical) 700 MBytes/sec download and 100 MBytes/sec upload 700 KBytes/s download and 100 KBytes/s upload speeds.

Come to think about it, my upload speed deterioration may be the result of my ISP's (rogers.com) attempt at traffic-shaping to limit bit-torrents!

EDIT: I should have said 700 KBytes/s and 100 KBytes/s. Sorry for the confusion!

[tompe]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

That upload speed is just at the beginning , but I have an extreme internet connection with (theoretical) 700 MBytes/sec download and 100 MBytes/sec upload speeds.

Come to think about it, my upload speed deterioration may be the result of my ISP's (rogers.com) attempt at traffic-shaping to limit bit-torrents!

You might have that speed but are you sure it is not 700Mbit/s and 100Mbit/s?

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by tompe

You might have that speed but are you sure it is not 700Mbit/s and 100Mbit/s?

Sorry, it is in KBytes/s. I should have said 700KBytes/s and 100KBytes/s. I'll re-edit my previous posts to correct this!

In Mbit/s it is 6 Mbit/s download and 1 Mbit/s upload.

Here's a link to my Extreme internet connection service