[Sugar-devel] Testing the production & use of ebooks

[samy boutayeb]

Hi,

OLPC France's folks are trying to produce real-world ebooks with the
partnership of a malagasian publisher, in order to give them to our
deployments in Madagascar.

So, we are testing the production & the use of those documents, based on
James Simmons book "The Readers are the
Leaders" ( http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction ),
and using as source file 2 jpeg files with mixed text & color images

Our observations are:

1/ jpeg > pdf (1 page):
production: open jpeg with gimp + print it to pdf
reading: with Read: ok
2/ jpeg > pdf (multipage pdf):
production: convert *.jpg test_ebook.pdf
reading: with Read: ok (without rotation)
3/ pdf > djvu (2 pages)
production: pdf2djvu -o test2.djvu test_ebook.pdf
reading: on a xo with Read: ok
4/ jpeg > djvu (1 page)
production: c44 "livre1 page3.jpg" (one page by page)
reading: DjView3 on a linux pc: ok
reading: on a xo with Read: ok (without rotation)
5/ jpeg > djvu (2 pages in batch)
using the script mkdjvus.py from (
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/MakingDjVus )
résult: ugly: 1 b/w page, with the 2 source page overimposed, and resulting in a unreadable page

3 additional observations:
- The reading from Read in Mirabelle (Soas3) doesnt work (the error message says "Failed to start").
- The rotation doesnt work on the XO 1.5
- The Read Etexts activity doesnt see/open the pdf/djvu file

FWIW, regards,

Samy