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Old 06-18-2008, 09:49 PM   #16
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Does StarDict Editor generate a txt file?
I'm not sure if StarDict Editor is doing what it's supposed to...
I change the the *dict extension to *txt by hand an then, in my command line I type:

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c:\cd Python25
c:\tab2opf.py dictionary.txt

I get a syntax error message.

No OPF file gets generated.

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Old 06-19-2008, 09:27 PM   #17
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Does StarDict Editor generate a txt file?
Yes. Decompile the dict.ifo file and you should get a dict.txt file. For me, it ended up in the same directory as stardict-editor.exe. Any plain text editor can be used to confirm that it is a tab delimited file (a <tab> between the word and its definition).
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Old 06-20-2008, 04:18 PM   #18
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Yes. Decompile the dict.ifo file and you should get a dict.txt file. For me, it ended up in the same directory as stardict-editor.exe. Any plain text editor can be used to confirm that it is a tab delimited file (a <tab> between the word and its definition).
Thanks. I got the file. It has lots of </k>\ tags in it. Is that normal?

About the py thing... any help?
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Old 08-07-2008, 05:53 AM   #19
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How to merge two dictionarys during conversion? Have anybody tried it?
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Old 10-26-2008, 05:35 PM   #20
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Chinese Mobipocket Dictonary for Windows Mobile Based Phones and Pocket PC's (PPC)

Thank you for all your posts and help! I did it! I created a Windows Mobile Based Mobipocket English to Chinese Dictionary. Feel free to download it and give feedback:

http://gravity404.googlepages.com/

Thanks again for all the good posts!
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Old 11-29-2008, 10:36 AM   #21
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I followed your step in winXP.

installed stardict3.0, installed GTK2 Runtime, downloaded dictionary files, extracted with 7zip, run stardict editor.

after I select *.dict.dz file, It verifies. BUT If I select decompile, it says

Building...
Error, file version is not 2.4.2
Done!

What does it mean?
I'm having exactly the same issue. "Error, file version is not 2.4.2" is displayed. In my .ifo file it says it's 3.0.0 version. What do I do? .dict is uncompressed.

EDIT: It seems the reason was that my .ifo file had charset which was incompatible with StarDict Editor.

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Old 11-29-2008, 05:21 PM   #22
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drago, wagnerian, ericshliao, pointboom

can any of you, who succeed this work, convert babylon files using dictconv and make a mobipocket dictionary for me? i'm running windows xp and linux is the only system that i can convert babylon files.

this is the link for dictconv (to convert babylon to stardict format)
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Educa...nv-23446.shtml

i uploaded 5 babylon dictionaries here: (3,64mb)
http://rapidshare.com/files/108999822/Babylon.rar.html

i'll be glad.
Here are Babylon dictionaries that are already converted to StarDict: http://reciteword.sourceforge.net/stardict/babylon.php. Decompile them with StarDict Editor (to .txt) and then use tab2opf.py python script. It'll take you a minute.
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Old 02-01-2009, 06:47 AM   #23
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Ok, I feel quite stupid now
I have downloaded the stardict dictionary files (*.dz, *.idx, and *.ifo) and extracted the *.dict from the *.dz file in the same directory. But here I am stuck. Trying to use the stardict-editor, I always get the same error message:
Building...
Error, file version is not 2.4.2
Done!

Could one of you give me a step by step instruction of what to do next? I really would appreciate it!
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Old 02-01-2009, 07:41 AM   #24
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IIRC, you should have a GTK+ for MS Windows installed to use the editor. I may be wrong, because it's been sometime since I did that conversion.
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Old 02-01-2009, 07:59 AM   #25
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I have it installed. when I try to convert the file, it now says: no tab in line 1, no tab in line 2, etc...

thanks for your help,

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p.s.: I can start the editor successfully, the next steps aren't clear to me.
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Old 02-07-2009, 12:20 PM   #26
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I cannot make the python script work.
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Ok, I feel quite stupid now
I have downloaded the stardict dictionary files (*.dz, *.idx, and *.ifo) and extracted the *.dict from the *.dz file in the same directory. But here I am stuck. Trying to use the stardict-editor, I always get the same error message:
Building...
Error, file version is not 2.4.2
Done!

Could one of you give me a step by step instruction of what to do next? I really would appreciate it!
Thanks,

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First download the stardict file. Extract using winrar.
There is a file by the name of ***.dict.dz
rename this file to ***.dict.gz
Download 7 zip software and extract this file - You shall get ***.dict file.
Now fire up the stardict-editor -
You basically get three tabs when it open viz Compile, Decompile and edit
The Decompile tab is what we are interested in.
Go the decompile tab and click browse - Choose the ***.ifo file - Not the dict file ) and click decompile.
This would lead to creation of text file ***.txt
Use tab2opf.py script to convert this txt file into opf.
This should lead to creation of multiple html files and opf file.
Use mobigen.exe to convert it to a dictionary.
Hope this helps.
I Managed.
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Old 02-10-2009, 11:24 AM   #28
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First download the stardict file. Extract using winrar.
There is a file by the name of ***.dict.dz
rename this file to ***.dict.gz
Download 7 zip software and extract this file - You shall get ***.dict file.
Now fire up the stardict-editor -
You basically get three tabs when it open viz Compile, Decompile and edit
The Decompile tab is what we are interested in.
Go the decompile tab and click browse - Choose the ***.ifo file - Not the dict file ) and click decompile.
This would lead to creation of text file ***.txt
Use tab2opf.py script to convert this txt file into opf.
This should lead to creation of multiple html files and opf file.
Use mobigen.exe to convert it to a dictionary.
Hope this helps.
I Managed.
Thanks, arvsinha. I followed ur instructions and produced the txt file but could not proceed using the the tab2opf.py script to convert the txt file. Can you (or anybody) please give step-by-step instruction or assist by ulpoading ready made script with instruction. I'm not knowledgeable in programming.
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Thanks, arvsinha. I followed ur instructions and produced the txt file but could not proceed using the the tab2opf.py script to convert the txt file.
See Visual Kindle Guide for instructions on how to install Python (KindlePID) and run a similar python script (KindlePID). I would not bother adding a python directory to your "path", but rather I suggest copying tab2opf.py (and mobigen.exe) to the directory containing the dictionary. Then the command tab2opf from a command window that has been "cd"-ed to this directory should give you a usage message (to tell you what arguments to use). Or perhaps arvsinha can post the actual command lines for tab2opf and mobigen.
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Thanks, arvsinha. I followed ur instructions and produced the txt file but could not proceed using the the tab2opf.py script to convert the txt file. Can you (or anybody) please give step-by-step instruction or assist by ulpoading ready made script with instruction. I'm not knowledgeable in programming.
Once you have the txt file in the folder. Now, get tab2opf.py and Mobigen.exe into the same folder.
Now fire up the command line interface of Windows XP - Go to start > Run > cmd
Change directory to the folder containing the file (all files namely - tab2opf, text file of the dictionary and mobigen) - using the cd command.
Then give the following command -
tab2opf textfile.txt
This should give you a textfile.opf file.
Now in the same command prompt, give the following command - mobigen.exe textfile.opf
Hopefully this should give the mobipocket book file.
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