Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing the production & use of ebooks- Try get IA Books rather then read e-books?
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 > > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing the production & use of ebooks- Try get IA Books rather then read e-books?
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 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 >> >> ___ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> > ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing the production & use of ebooks- Try get IA Books rather then read e-books?
Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 à 20:48 -0500, James Simmons a écrit : > 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. -rw-rw-r-- 1 samy samy 2119496 2010-05-28 22:58 livre1page3.jpg -rw-rw-r-- 1 samy samy 1738816 2010-05-28 22:57 livre1page6.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 samy samy 446378 2010-05-28 22:33 test_ebook.djvu -rw-r--r-- 1 samy samy 3818867 2010-05-28 18:58 test_ebook.pdf One advantage from the djvu format, at least in this particular case (an ebook built from 2 jpeg pages), is that the djvu file is smaller then the pdf file. Regards, Samy > > James Simmons > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Thomas Gilliard > 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 > >> > >> ___ > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >> > >> > > > ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
