Thanks, Esther. I'll give that a shot. I'm wondering now if there is a way to get the various plugins for Calibre through the command-line. The GUI interface doesn't allow VO to read the advanced preferences.
Thanks, Teresa On Sep 30, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
