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Magibon wrote:

Hydaral wrote:I believe the registry "functions" are actually macros, so it's a different syntax:

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${registry::DeleteKey} "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech"

thanks for the help.. but that's not the correct syntax.
im familiar with NSIS and have successfully compiled many launchers.

Hydaral wrote:

Magibon wrote:

Hydaral wrote:I believe the registry "functions" are actually macros, so it's a different syntax:

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${registry::DeleteKey} "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech"

thanks for the help.. but that's not the correct syntax.
im familiar with NSIS and have successfully compiled many launchers.

Really? That's the syntax I'm using in my launchers. Maybe we are using different implementations.

• I was a little confused by some of the controls to convert. The trick is:
  
  1. To watch the lower-right hand corner of the screen where jobs are listed.
  2. When you do select Convert (either individually or as a group) when you click OK it will go down into this jobs list.
  Single-column -> MOBI
  
  Very impressed. The converted info looked great on the Kindle. The table of contents didn't work and it didn't understand complex formatting, but that wasn't a big deal for the Kindle.
  
  I have a few PDFs that this program was able to take apart and put into a much cleaner and radically smaller format.
  
  Two-column -> MOBI
  
  Mixed results -- need to retest.

• I tested an old text file with some ugly bad line breaks, but even tweaking the settings a bit I couldn't seem to get it right. I'd like to figure out a way to fix that in an automatic way.
  
  I didn't test out the content server mostly because there was no information on that and I didn't have a net connection at the time of analysis. Edit: I figured out under the Preferences menu that it runs on the IP address port 8080 (something like http://123.12.14.121:8080)

• Option for plain black and white outline-style icons at the top of the screen. I found the colors a little overwhelming.
• Included help file
• A little more in the way of a file viewer and an included PDF viewer. I'm fairly sure the author could include a copy of Sumatra to do the job.
• A way to physically edit files (apart from the "Tweak" program available for ePub and HTMLz), especially to help fix unclear conversions.

Calibre Portable\Calibre\ebook-viewer.exe

*.epub;*.lrf;*.htm;*.html;*.xhtm;*.xhtml;*.lit;*.mobi;*.pdb;*.prc;*.snb;*.cbz;*.cbr;*.cbc;*.odt;*.doc;*.docx;*.rtf

Calibre Portable\Calibre\ebook-convert.exe

ebook-convert.exe MyBook.mobi MyBook.epub

Usage: ebook-convert.exe input_file output_file [options]

Convert an ebook from one format to another.

input_file is the input and output_file is the output. Both must be specified as the first two arguments to the command.

The output ebook format is guessed from the file extension of output_file. output_file can also be of the special format .EXT where EXT is the output file extension. In this case, the name of the output file is derived the name of the input file. Note that the filenames must not start with a hyphen. Finally, if output_file has no extension, then it is treated as a directory and an "open ebook" (OEB) consisting of HTML files is written to that directory. These files are the files that would normally have been passed to the output plugin.

After specifying the input and output file you can customize the conversion by specifying various options. The available options depend on the input and output file types. To get help on them specify the input and output file and then use the -h option.

For full documentation of the conversion system see
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html

Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-convert.exe that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

Options:
--version show program's version number and exit

-h, --help show this help message and exit

--list-recipes List builtin recipe names. You can create an ebook from a
builtin recipe like this: ebook-convert "Recipe Name.recipe"
output.epub


Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>

Using Calibre's ebook converter standalone: launch 'ebook-convert'

Ascend4nt wrote:I'd commit to calibre if they didn't duplicate my entire ebook collection to a local drive. The responses on their forums to this wasteful technique is basically 'just deal with it' or 'your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with molecular structures' and 'hard drive space isn't expensive - just buy more', etc. It's a shame really as its otherwise the swiss-army knife of ebook management!

Marc wrote:Since Calibre is open source, unlike Foobar, is it to be expected some sort of interface mod or skin?

webfork wrote:I would compare this more to iTunes than Foobar.

Midas wrote:Alternatives really welcome, since my library (mainly PDFs and epubs) is getting huge...[/list]