Hi Teresa, I remember sending you this information about some scripts that Jonathan Chacôn wrote for Calbre. At the time (back in April) I couldn't get to the blog site links, and thought they might have been permanently taken down, but the URLs all seem to be working now. I think that working in the command line for Calibre is fine, but these might be of interest to someone. (Like most things, I found the original information in the archives for the macvisionaries list). <begin quote> Hi Teresa,
I think you'll have the best luck doing the ePub conversion with Pages, as Mark suggests. I'll just mention that Jonathan Chacón did construct a service to convert TXT, RTF, PDF and HTML format eBooks to ePub using scripts to run Calibre in command line, and made it available at his web log site in August 2010. The web page was: http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/articulo.aspx?idA=1897 There were headings in Spanish and English: • "Servicio accesible de conversión a ePub para MacOS X" • "accessible ePub conversion service for MacOS X" This was the direct download link for the zip file on that page: http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/archivos/id38/textConversionService.zip The problem is that this web site doesn't seem to be on-line currently, and hasn't been when I tried it a few times recently. Jonathan has a new web site that is accessed by his free iPhone RSS app (in Spanish), "Programar a ciegas RSS" by Tyflos Accessible Software. <end quote> HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 30, 2012, at 06:18, Teresa Cochran wrote: > hi, all, > > I've decided i'm going to do what I can to encourage the developers of > Calibre to make the interface more accessible. As it stands now, there are > many work-arounds that have to be done to make it work. The only accessible > interface that works consistently is the command-line, and as far as I know, > it doesn't perform certain functions until plugins are enabled. Also, > command-line isn't for everyone, and I really think that a simpler UI would > be beneficial, if such a thing is possible. I realize Calibre is a humble > project, but perhaps something can be done to improve accessibility for this > very useful application. > > Teresa > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
