On Thursday, October 25, 2012 21:14:19 Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Säger <ville...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today my wife got her new Kindle which comes with a document viewer > > based on Apache Freetype for the rendering job and Apache POI which is a > > Java library to parse Microsoft documents. > > It handles doc(x)/xls(x)/ppt(x) but no ODF. Although I am not deeply > > involved in this project, I feel somewhat embarrassed and alarmed > > because in the year 2012 the Apache foundation develops excellent tools > > to process proprietary file formats but fails to offer anything > > equivalent for the free and much simpler ODF standard. > > Is my assumption correct that http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ > > would be the remedy to solve that problem but due to a lack of > > development resources it is not ready for the job? > > The ODF Toolkit is a Java library for manipulating ODF documents. A > classic use would be document automation, e.g., taking a document > template and filling in data from a database, to create a new ODF > document. It does this all without any GUI, no OpenOffice required. > It is not an editor, not a viewer. It has no rendering, layout or > calculation logic. It operates directly on the document file. > > So ordinarily I'd say that this was not appropriate for a document > viewer, certainly not without a layout engine. But on something like > the Kindle, with relatively simple layout requirements, the ODF > Toolkit would be analogous to POI, and would make the task far easier. > > If you search for it, you will find various solutions for converting > ODF to EPub. But I have not seen something that does the same for > Kindle's MOBI format. > > -Rob > > > Greetings, > > Andreas Säger
Calligra Author and Calligra Words 2.6 that will be released as beta in next week has both a new Epub2 and a MOBI export. This is done because of the new Calligra Author application that is aimed especially at creating ebooks. Upcoming versions will also have Epub3 support with dynamic contents.
