[OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??

Francois Dion francois.dion at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 20:29:34 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 05:03 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> Is there a version of the Calibre ebook/epub doc converter for
>> OpenIndiana?
>> Or any other SW that can convert a PDF book to epub?
>>
>> Epub (or other ebook formats) are much more readable on smartphones
>> than standard PDFs ususally are, due to the text reflow capability.
>>
>> So I'd like to be able to convert even large pdf docs to some ebook
>> format, so I can take large manuals along on trips.
>>
>
> Sadly I don't think it's been built on OI.  There are Linux, OS X and
> windows version - I guess you could install Ubuntu inside KVM and try it
> there?
> It's an amazing program.

Just looked at it, it requires PyQT4 and that means QT4... Is there a
prebuilt QT4?

Francois



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