Thank you a lot for your answer, it helps me a lot. It seems then that the "Alice in Wonderlands" sample was made in html then converted. I will try to do the same. Have a good day. On 20/03/06, Nils Faerber <nils.faerber at kernelconcepts.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) schrieb: > > Hello, > Hi! > > > I've discovered the joy of FBreader and the plucker format with the sample : > > http://downloads.kernelconcepts.de/books/AliceInWonderland.pdb > > > > As I've written some texts, I want to put them in the same format, > > with a bit of formatting and perhaps somes pictures. > > Quite some work, but results in nice ebooks ;) > > > I didn't find any way to convert a PDF or PS or SXW or ODT or ABW to a > > good looking pdb as Alice in wonderland is. > > Those formats are mostly not very "portable". > Plucker comes from the idea to "pluck" web sites, i.e. download HTML > pages to read them offline. > Having said this it might become obvious that especially pre-formatted > formats like PS and PDF do not convert that easily - thus no converter > exists. > The best bet you can do is convert to HTML first. If this works then you > can convert the HTML page set to Plucker format. > > I would recommend to manually edit the HTML intermediate format in order > to add some browsing help links, like page forward, page back, table of > contents, a nice cover page, etc... > > > Also, I don't understand the difference between plucker and palm > > document format (both are pdb extension and readable by FBreader) > > PDB is just the general extension for "Palm DataBase", i.e. a generic > data file format for Palm-OS and does not specify any internal data > representation (like PBC IRC which is the program file). > > > Can anyone give me some explanations or an interesting link ? It seems > > that all that plucker-desktop can do is retrieving website for offline > > browsing (and I don't want to do that). > > Don't use the desktop. > Use the plucker commanline tool "plucker-build" instead. > With this you can create an HTML directory tree and simply create the > Plucker book from it. > > > Thanks, > > Ploum > Cheers > nils faerber > > - -- > kernel concepts Tel: +49-271-771091-12 > Dreisbachstr. 24 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 > D-57250 Netphen Mob: +49-176-21024535 > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEHomnJXeIURG1qHgRAp+HAKCeHA7rE9QAfkL+F6Vi/Rpx4R6MTQCePn1A > kMUFBJecxo9d9w9yB5o5v3Y= > =Ihmb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >