[Sugar-devel] Testing the production & use of ebooks- Try get IA Books rather then read e-books?

[James Simmons]

Thomas,

If Read in Mirabelle can't do DjVu it's because the DjVu plugin to
evince is missing.  Evince itself is present if it can read PDFs.  I
hope that can be fixed in Mirabelle, because DjVu is a good format for
e-books.

James Simmons

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Thomas Gilliard <satellit at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> samy boutayeb wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> I just used Get IA Books 5.0 to do download of color/b&W/DejaVue books and
> read them with read 86 on XO-1 G1G1 os240py (0.88.0 sugar)
> I just replied to your post about it versus Mirabelle Read 86 performance.
> (Also I noticed: Some books are not available in all three formats)
> (Read 86 still fails to start in Mirabelle after these downloads with the
> lack of evince being present.)
>
> Cordially;
>
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
>>
>> - The Read Etexts activity doesnt see/open the pdf/djvu file
>>
>> FWIW, regards,
>>
>> Samy
>>
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