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danx · 10-05-2007, 12:48 PM

The MIME type for mobipocket ebooks (.mobi) files is application/x-mobipocket-ebook (that is what the mobileread.com web server uses).

Here's how I run mobigen under Linux, using wine. Mobigen is a CLI program, no graphical interface, so can run in batch mode in the background:

1. Install wine if not installed already
2. Copy or download DLL file msvcp71.dll and copy to
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msvcp71.dll
3. Download mobigen from http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/ and unzip. I installed it under /usr/local/mobigen/
4. Run mobigen as follows:

wine /usr/local/mobigen/mobigen.exe your-source-file.html -c1 -s0

This creates a file your-source-file.mobi (replace your-source-file above with the name of your html file). I converted about 100 ebooks at http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/ with this program.

Here's the command line options:

Usage : mobigen filename.opf/.htm/.html [-lowpriority] [-nomin] [-c0 or -c1 or c2] [-s0 or -s1 or -s2] [-vouchers=n] [-nocopypaste] [-rebuild] [-onlydeps or -nodeps] [-unicode]
Options:
-c0: no compression
-c1: standard DOC compression
-c2: Mobipocket huffdic compression
-s0: no security
-s1: encrypted content
-s2: PID secured (retargetable) Mobipocket ebook
-vouchers=n: [by default] use DRM v2 with n vouchers (min = 6).
-nocopypaste: does not allow any copy paste of content in Reader
-nomin: do not minimize version
-rebuild: rebuilds all dependencies
-onlydeps: build only needed dependencies
-nodeps: do not check/build dependencies
-unicode: force build of Unicode book
-lowpriority: set the PRCGEN thread priority to low (background build)
-regserver: register the XOPFPlugin Type Library
-unregserver: unregister the XOPFPlugin Type Library
-releasenotes: display release notes
-jpeg: native jpeg support (all images converted to GIF otherwise)

10-05-2007, 12:48 PM	#29
danx Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: San Diego, CA, US Device: Palm Pilot m130	mobigen under wine and mobipocket MIME type The MIME type for mobipocket ebooks (.mobi) files is application/x-mobipocket-ebook (that is what the mobileread.com web server uses). Here's how I run mobigen under Linux, using wine. Mobigen is a CLI program, no graphical interface, so can run in batch mode in the background: 1. Install wine if not installed already 2. Copy or download DLL file msvcp71.dll and copy to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msvcp71.dll 3. Download mobigen from http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/ and unzip. I installed it under /usr/local/mobigen/ 4. Run mobigen as follows: wine /usr/local/mobigen/mobigen.exe your-source-file.html -c1 -s0 This creates a file your-source-file.mobi (replace your-source-file above with the name of your html file). I converted about 100 ebooks at http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/ with this program. Here's the command line options: Usage : mobigen filename.opf/.htm/.html [-lowpriority] [-nomin] [-c0 or -c1 or c2] [-s0 or -s1 or -s2] [-vouchers=n] [-nocopypaste] [-rebuild] [-onlydeps or -nodeps] [-unicode] Options: -c0: no compression -c1: standard DOC compression -c2: Mobipocket huffdic compression -s0: no security -s1: encrypted content -s2: PID secured (retargetable) Mobipocket ebook -vouchers=n: [by default] use DRM v2 with n vouchers (min = 6). -nocopypaste: does not allow any copy paste of content in Reader -nomin: do not minimize version -rebuild: rebuilds all dependencies -onlydeps: build only needed dependencies -nodeps: do not check/build dependencies -unicode: force build of Unicode book -lowpriority: set the PRCGEN thread priority to low (background build) -regserver: register the XOPFPlugin Type Library -unregserver: unregister the XOPFPlugin Type Library -releasenotes: display release notes -jpeg: native jpeg support (all images converted to GIF otherwise) Last edited by danx; 10-06-2007 at 02:28 AM.