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I do get two of them, yes . I don't know of any way to avoid that - do you?
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No. But as I understood it you can call the action anything you want so maybe just calling it something else might avoid some confusion. Or maybe people will get more confused having two different entries for the same thing.
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I suppose it's a question of whether it's less confusing to have two identical menu items which do the same thing, or two different menu items which do the same thing. Doesn't really matter either way.
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Do I have to be a non-moron to use Mobiperl? I'd be interested in trying it out, but I have no programming knowledge or anything. The most I know is some basic HTML. Thanks for the idea, I'll go check it out and see what level of competence is required.
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I seem to remember now that in the example book I tested they were not identical. But maybe that was just that book.
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To use the latest version in Windows you have to be able to install programs and use command promts. I will in a couple of days try to package the latest version as Windows binaries but the Windows binaries will always lag behind the other version if I am doing the packaging.
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Down the road a bit, I may experiment with the command line converter, and see about scripted Mobi file generation. One question for the group mind, however: MobiPocket Creator offers three compression options: None, Standard, and High. I played a bit, creating a test Mobi file with each option, and all were handled just fine on my device, which is a Palm OS PDA running v5.3 beta of MobiReader for PalmOS, and by the current 6.1 MobiReader for Windows. My inclination is to create Mobi documents using High compression, simply because there's no such thing as enough storage space. My question is whether that is known to be supported on all devices that can read Mobi files. Yes, it takes a lot longer to generate Mobi files using High compression, but I don't care. My computer is doing the work. Comments? ______ Dennis |
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That is probably the flags:
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MobiPocket Creator recommends that "High Compression" should "only be used for very large files such as dictionaries". I always use "Standard Compression" myself.
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Tompe has weighed in with the fact that his mobiperl tools can't successfully extract a Mobi file created with it. I haven't looked to see what his perl code is doing, so I don't know why it might fail. I've tested it here, and High Compression works fine on my PalmOS device, with as gratifying size reduction. Default Mobi compression appears to be Palm DOC compatible, meaning a variant of RLE yielding about 40% compression. High compression looks closer to what I see with Zlib -- zip/gzip compatible, with about 70% compression. I know what I'm using for Mobi files I create for my own use... ______ Dennis |
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Frankly, I'm torn. I understand your concern, but storage space is finite. Most of my ebooks are in Plucker format, and I always use the High Compression option, which uses a Palm port of ZLib and provides zip/gzip compatible compression instead of the standard Palm "doc" compression. If I didn't do that, I'd have had to upgrade from a 2GB SD card to a 4GB card long ago for the volume that holds my Plucker documents. (I have about 3,200 Plucker files occupying about 1.5GB on that card.) Using High Compression in MobiPocket becomes an issue if someone wants to use MobiPerl to manipulate the files because your code can't uncompress them. I'm mainly concerned that anyone can read a Mobi file I create. The number of folks who might want to use MobiPerl to manipulate them will be a small subset of the total number who might read them. For stuff I create for myself, I'd likely use High Compression. For stuff I upload elsewhere, it's a quandary, and I'm thinking. ______ Dennis |
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