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Title: EPUB
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2011.04.26, 23:58:50
Is there a way to read epub books by os/2 - EComStation?
Is there a way to plug Epubreader in Firefox ?
Other solutions?
Forthcoming?

Onlineuser2

PS: May it be that Scribus create epub format texts. If so, it will be able to read epub books too, but I am asking about a simple reading app.
thanks
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2011.04.27, 00:25:29
Last minute news....
I just tried to add-on in Firefox EPUBReader release 1.4.1.0 (February 16, 2011) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/epubreader/
Tested on firefox 3.5.7.
It installs in few moments and at a first glance it works very fine.
So we have a way to read epub books friendly and easy and manage ebook dowloads from inside Firefox (EPub Catalog).
However, it is interesting to have news and infos about other epub reader apps and let them be known better.

All the best
Onlineuser2
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: ivan on 2011.04.27, 12:08:36
If one of our brilliant people at porting QT4 apps was interested there is CoolReader 3 rhat reads epub as well as several other formats.

ivan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: diver on 2011.05.19, 20:26:29
i'm right now in the progress of doing it. the exe is already built and not i'm testing it.

regards
Silvan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: ivan on 2011.05.19, 22:58:32
Silvan,  how do you do it?  I'm amazed at your output with software.  Sometimes I wish I could do the same but I satisfy myself with the hardware side of things.

Thanks for the work and effort.  It will be one less thing that I'll have to do in windows.

ivan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: diver on 2011.05.20, 10:03:28
the exe starts, but i can't load any file so far. i'm investigating that in the next couple of days.

i will let you know when something is around for testing.

regards
Silvan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2011.05.22, 20:40:26
Thanks for the work!!
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: diver on 2011.05.27, 11:11:10
files are loading now and i already sent the exe to a tester. so expect a version very soon.

regards
Silvan

P.S. don't forget to sponsor QT4 development and Java development
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: diver on 2011.06.01, 15:16:00
first version is uploaded. see http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps for more information.
direct link: http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4 Application (http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4%20Application)

regards
Silvan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: ivan on 2011.06.02, 02:12:53
Hi Silvan,

Just to let you know it works with everything I've thrown at it so far.  The next things I will test is how it responds to changing the css in the epub working from the information given by the developer on the Mobileread forum.

Thanks for your work.  I only wish I knew more about porting then I'd have a go at the Atheros AR8030 gigabit lan driver that's on several of the motherboards here.

ivan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: ivan on 2011.06.20, 21:41:33
Hi Silvan,

Thanks for CR3, it does everything the version I have on my Android tablet does which means I can now produce epub books with Paul's port of Sigil and test them before sending them to the tablet.

Thanks.

ivan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2011.06.20, 22:45:34
HI,
is there a OS/2 port of Sigil? Where can be found?
thanks
onlineuser2
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: ivan on 2011.06.21, 02:15:32
The port I have was kindly made available to me by Paul Smedley so I suggest you ask him yourself.

ivan
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2011.06.21, 22:36:41
It may be I'll ask him for, but it should be fine having it for everybody.
I suppose the port is not complete, or with some final touches to be added.
I am going to check Paul's site, plenty of so good work, over and over again waiting for it.
Thanks Paul!
Onlinesuer2
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: Paul Smedley on 2011.06.22, 12:19:21
Quote from: ivan on 2011.06.21, 02:15:32
The port I have was kindly made available to me by Paul Smedley so I suggest you ask him yourself.

The binary is at http://smedley.info/sigil-0.2.0-os2-20100521.zip

It was never extensively tested hence it hasn't been added to my site....
Title: Re: EPUB
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2011.06.22, 16:05:58
Thanks by everybody!!!!!!.
We will test it
Onlinesuer2