dslibris: User Mailing List Retired

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5 responses to “dslibris: User Mailing List Retired”

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   Glitzerstim

   May 3, 2008

   Hi.
   I am testing this program right now and it was very difficult to make a xhtml from an pdf. I hope in future txt will be supported, but anyway i have done it and dslibris works fine now. I think it could be in past future the best program to read ebooks on NDSL.

   One or two thinks i wish for the future:
   – to use also the txt-format
   – to make bookmarks at myselfe (more than one)
   – (very important)more fonts… and changing the font-sizes (because the font/size at the moment is not perfect to read longer than a few minutes, its diffuse)
   – read the books also in horizontal (spin the NDSL 90°
   – changing to topscrenn and backscreen

   For me, the best Ebookviewer in the moment is the inbuild program from the M3DsReal, this is also not perfect (but near at it), but its the best compromise as now.
   I use also often the “DsReader” because the invertmode is greate.
   Now i have seen your program and its greate, too.

   I has written a Faq in a very popular German forum about the NDSL to read ebooks. I´m glad to say, that after the program fom the M3DsReal your program and the “DsReader” are can be recommended.

   Thank you for this program, that will be a great future in homebrewscene … I think.

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   Ray Haleblian

   May 3, 2008

   @Glitzerstim: thanks for the comments, if you would like to see these features in dslibris, you can add feature requests in SourceForge for us to track.

   Font size can be adjusted in dslibris.xml, see the SF wiki.

   I am warming up to a horizontal ‘landscape’ display option as lines will break less often, so post that one for us.

   I’ve made comment before re: PDF and txt as poor formats for ebooks on a mobile device like the DS. That said, one of our new developers has added txt support so we’ll see that in a release soon.

   For more in-depth discussion, I invite you to use the ndslibris-users list on SF 🙂
   cheers

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3. 

   Ray Haleblian

   May 3, 2008

   Oops, forgot to say: i’ve recently converted some PDF to XHTML using the program ‘pdftohtml’ included in Poppler. You can get this program with fink on OS X and yum on Fedora.
   The results were poor because line endings are all messed up. It winds up being about as bad as using a .txt file with improper line breaks in it.

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4. 

   Ray Haleblian

   May 3, 2008

   Oops again! To be clear, the process from PDF to XHTML is:

   run pdftohtml to generate an HTML file from PDF file,

   run tidy to generate an XHTML from the HTML file.

   Certainly not one-click. We are looking at supporting HTML so the XHTML is not mandatory.

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5. 

   Glitzerstim

   May 4, 2008

   Thank you for reply. TXT-Support sounds good and HTML without (X) sounds good, too 😉

   horizontal “landscape” display will be integrated in future …i understand taht right? …I hope so, really. Because only vertical display is not optimal ….. variety is important, i think.

   Best regards

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