I get some install errors, on my eee 901. I think its being packaged for jaunty so I'll probably just wait. In windows it looks like a great ereader and compiler and its getting good reviews. It compiled some html files into an epub book in a fraction of the time the plucker distiller took. and the file size looks to be smaller too. Very neat.
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I'm getting a little collection of pipemenus. Seems fodder for a blog post.
]]><menu execute="current-pdf.sh --pipemenu" id="ebooksmenu" label="Ebooks"/>The new version can be found at: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/66
Again, it is not the best script ever written, so please feel free to improve as you see fit. :)
]]>One issue I'll explore is that some of my PDF's have spaces in there names. Not a problem, I can rename them but it would be nice if the script could handle spaces in file names if present.
Oops, good catch! :) I forgot to quote the $file variable. The following revision should now handle file names with spaces:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/64
Implemented.
One issue I'll explore is that some of my PDF's have spaces in there names. Not a problem, I can rename them but it would be nice if the script could handle spaces in file names if present. Also I got to thinking that a piped menu could easily be created to show all the pdf's in a directory each as a menu option.
Thanks for a start with this little script. Fun fun fun.
]]>Perhaps this could be scripted so that you could just drop your current PDF file into a directory? Then you would not have to manually edit your Openbox menu item each time you changed books. I wrote a quick shell script which could do the job: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/63 - it is not the best script in the world, but it does the job. Please feel free to improve, if you like. :)
]]><kestrel> Just made a mod to my menu that is cool. Added "Current Ebook" to the main menu and the command is "evince ~/ebook/Mastering\ the\ Universe.pdf"
<kestrel> Two cool things about that. One - evince remembers what page I'm on and ...
<kestrel> Two, W-Space brings up the menu and "c" key launches "Current Ebook" because it has no sub menu and is the first menu item starting with a "c".
<kestrel> Fast and sweet. Easy ebook reader.
I have to change link when done with this book but that is not a problem. I usually read one at a time. If I was reading two or more books at a time I could add them separately. Great for links to reference books. Now only if evince would allow multiple bookmarking and notes.
Customary screenshot. 