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adinb is The Man! He is definately THE Regex expert on here.
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09-27-2007, 01:25 PM | #228 |
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As I'm sure folks have noticed, I haven't been very active on these forums. This is a reflection of the fact that I barely use my reader anymore (I want higher resolution and color; I'm mostly interested in comics and tech books and the reader is not great for either, notwithstanding some of the excellent software some people have produced). I thought I'd use the reader for RSS but it's hard to beat the wonderful pRSSReader on my Pocket PC with a data plan.
My plan at this point is to open-source web2book; I need a bit of time to get that done but I hope that that will allow others to build on the foundation. I'll post an update once the source is available (most likely on Codeplex). |
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10-02-2007, 09:10 PM | #230 |
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10-10-2007, 11:18 PM | #231 | |
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RSS2Book sounds cool - but I sure don't understand!
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I so want to try this - but I don't know anything about .NET! When I click the link I see all sorts of things I could download. How do I know which one of the Framework files to download? I am running Windows XP Home Edition on a Gateway laptop. Can you tell me which .NET Framework I should install? Thanks for helping out a newbie |
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Once again sorry for the delay; the project is finally up: http://www.codeplex.com/web2book
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The page is good but there's only source code to download. Can you add a link to where I can download the executable version? presumably http://www.download.com/3000-20-10649163.html ? I'm about to have a play now
Hmm, www.publicaddress.net doesn't work as rss or web site, System.UriFormatException as web page, just headlines as rss. http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/feed/ just doesn't work - no output at all. mozbike.blogspot.com causes it to hang, http://mozbike.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default just produces no output. The log window gets a bit annoying after a while - do you absolutely have to show it every time? I think you might need to write a wizard to set up feeds, or make the inputs more tolerant. But at least Process Explorer can kill it when it hangs, that bit works. Cool, http://smh.com.au/text works. Is there any way to tell it "ignore links that don't start with http://smh.com.au/text"? Also, converting this to rtf takes avery long time (I think, after a minute or two I killed it). It looks as though you just cat the HTML of all the links together - perhaps it would be better if you at least removed all the extra HTML and BODY tags? I suspect that stripping the non-text context would help that, as the html page currently produced has all sorts of images and formatting as well as embedded scripts and styles. Using OpenOffice Writer to import the HTML is slow to the point where I killed that too. Using a text editor to remove the start and end blocks of "stuff" plus all the img and href tags makes it possible to load the HTML. Now I need to use MS-Office to convert HTML to RTF because I don't (yet) have a better solution. Clicking Help-Report Bug takes me to a page that doesn't work. I will download the source and have a play sometime, I hope. Last edited by moz; 03-03-2008 at 05:08 AM. Reason: more discoveries. |
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You can get the executable version from http://www.download.com/Web2book/300...html?tag=lst-1
I haven't used the app or my Sony Reader in months - pRSSReader on my Tilt is just much more convenient - - so I'm not actively fixing or enhancing it. Nontheless it represents a fair amount of development effort so that's why I'm putting it on Codeplex - so others can contribute if they want. I'll look into the bug report issue; publish/subscribe and bug reporting should still work. If I can move bug reporting over to Codeplex that would be better. |
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broke sony reader software
I just tryed downloading and installing web2book from the download.com site-now when I try and run the sony e-reader software the left side is all squashed up and the program is pretty much broken.
I uninstalled web2book,e-reader, re-installed e-reader, all to no avail. I am running winxp sp2 with net framework 3 sp1. Any suggestions for fixing this? Edit- Found the 'rough' fix in another post-thanks CurtW ! https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16796 Quote:
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Multilanguage support
Hi, geekraver!
It's a great program you've made! I know you don't develop it anymore and it's at Codeplex, but I have a question regarding multilanguage support and I will appreciate it you find the time to respond (if there is a quickifix, so it's not a burden for you). I tried to use the program for cyrillic websites but it didn't work. I also read lot of German websites. And here comes the embarassment. Special characters for German (umlauts) work just fine in the Title but not below that. Do you have any idea why that might be. In principle the program supports such characters if they appear at one place. But why not on the other? I attach a screenshot to see what I mean. |
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@ slex: I have the same Problem! I read, that the main problem is the old version of htmldoc (I think a converter) which is used by web2book. Htmldoc won't be updated anymore and doesn't support the UTF-8 characters, which is used by many newer websites. web2book supports iso-8859-15, which includes german umlaute, but I don't know, if there is a way to transform UTF-8 in iso.
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@slex: thanks for that hint, it would be very usefull, if they would implement the UTF-8 charset!!
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