10-28-2008, 02:48 AM | #16 |
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Good to see that they intend to update it. But their progress is, at best, glacial. They still haven't (after almost a year) released a unix version of mobigen. I'd estimate that it would take a single decent programmer starting from scratch about two weeks to implement mobigen in a cross platform way. So I'm forced to conclude that developing the MOBI format is not a priority for Amazon.
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10-28-2008, 09:30 AM | #18 |
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that was 6 months ago, I think. SInce then...
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10-28-2008, 03:08 PM | #23 |
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Depends on what you mean by import. In the case of mobigen, it's more like mangle (not really its fault since mobi doesn't support most of the features of EPUB. And note that the PC version of MOBI uses mobigen under the hood.
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11-01-2008, 10:12 PM | #24 |
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Version 0.2.0 has just been posted to CPAN. New to this release is the ability to unpack eReader files and the ability to strip <script>/<noscript> blocks from HTML.
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11-16-2008, 12:04 AM | #25 |
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Version 0.3.0 has just been indexed by CPAN.
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0.3.0 New Features: * Configuration file and directory support * Mobipocket HUFF/CDIC support * Unpacking DRM-protected Mobipocket files now just skips the encrypted text, but still extracts the unencrypted images * EBook::Tools now takes advantage of several external helper files, if they are made available: * Mobipocket generation possible if mobigen is available * Unpacking interface supports MS Reader (.lit) if convertlit is available * Downconverting interface supports MS Reader and Mobipocket if convertlit and MobiDeDRM are available, respectively. * See README.Helpers.txt for more information * excerpt_line() procedure available to show just the beginning and end of a paragraph or other long line of text * ':all' export tag is available for all modules to export all procedures at once. Library Changes: * EReader.pm: write_* methods now return the filename(s) written instead of just returning 1 * Unpack.pm: gen_metadata() no longer calls split_metadata() if the raw option is specified * Tools.pm: fix_languages() now creates a <dc:language> if none exists (this isn't mandated by the standard, but mobigen requires it) Bug Fixes: * Unpacking an eReader book now correctly adds the text to the OPF manifest |
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Version 0.3.1 has just been indexed by CPAN. This fixes an uploading bug in 0.3.0 that caused MSReader.pm to not be included.
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Is this something in the module?
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EBook-Tools-0.3.1/MANIFEST CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AZ/AZED/EBook-Tools-0.3.1.tar.gz Can't locate Module/Build/Compat.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at Makefile.PL line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 3. Running make test Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test Running make install Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install cpan> |
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Why do you require Perl 5.10.0? Since Debian stable uses 5.8.8 I cannot use the module.
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One of the spots where I'm using ~~ I can switch to hashes (it's just uglier, not a real trouble), but in one case I'm using it to determine if two hashes have identical keys, and the workaround for that is messy (I'd have to 'join sort keys %hash' on both hashes and compare the resulting strings, both slower and uglier). I'm also using it to check if the HUFF little-endian and big-endian tables match, which is an array compare I'd have to iterate through, which is a lot slower than ~~, but I suppose in theory I could skip it altogether because it's just a sanity check for corrupt data. This alone probably won't help you because of your next problem, though... Quote:
Let me think about this for a bit. Is anyone else interested in this package also having problems getting a Perl 5.10 environment? Last edited by AZed; 11-19-2008 at 11:48 AM. |
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Now, if tompe migrates to 5.10, so would I. I'm not a developer, but I'm interested in creating an IMP.pm which could be used to create/manipulate/explode .IMP ebook files for use on the eBookwise-1150 and REB1200 (Gemstar legacy) devices. I would like to be able to interface with your EBook Tools for my personal use! Currently, the .imp creation tools in perl require Win32::OLE, but that doesn't mean they are limited to Windows computers. Using wine in linux allows .imp creation (albeit a bit of a kludge) and MACOS X apparantly has native support as well from ETI, the current "manufacturer" of my ebook devices. In this case, I must be a "follower" and await whatever solution presents itself. Last edited by nrapallo; 11-24-2008 at 11:07 PM. Reason: typo |
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