Welcome to OOoBook.
Welcome to OOoBook, a project dedicated to improving the ebook import/export capability in OpenOffice.org. There are three areas of support that are being targeted right now:
- More filters
The XMerge Framework ships with support for WordSmith and AportisDoc filters. Additional support is planned for eReader (PalmReader) and iSilo, with Open EBook (lit) and others being considered based on demand.
- Better Unicode handling
OpenOffice.org passes the documents to XMerge in Unicode, and when the text is converted to the correct language encoding, a number of very common characters (smartquotes most notably) are converted to simple '?'s. Support is planned initially to substitute these characters for strings that are supported.
Hopefully, at some point, it will be possible to actually provide our own encoding directly to Java, and have Java encode the Unicode into, for example, an "Aportis" encoding.
- Comprehensive compression/decompression support
The Aportis doc filter supports decompression on import, but no compression on export. Comprehensive compression/decompression support would likely span over 6 algorithms. The good news is that most of them have a native Java implementation.
Features that are not planned, but are considered possible:
- Encryption/Decryption
While I believe that if you have a legally obtained decryption key to a document you own, I'm sure there are a few very vocal people with very expensive lawyers that would like to tell me that I believe otherwise. I wouldn't begin to consider this feature until most of the core features listed above were complete, and I had received some credible legal advice from a qualified professional.