Archive for: ‘August 2010’

Comic Book Transformer KDE Service Menu

28 August, 2010 Posted by ramso

This KDE4 Service Menu is designed to make more easy the generation of Comic Book files in CBR, CBZ or PDF Formats. Provide options to scale to different resolutions and transform to gray for use in ebooks.

Features

  • Convert Images directories to CBR, CBZ o PDF files
  • Convert  CBR o CBZ files in  PDF
  • Transform to gray scale
  • Scale to 1024×768 or 800×600

Use

In Dolphin select a directory or CBR, CBZ file, in actions menu select Comic Book Transformer. In the new menu select the output format for your file.

Menu of Comic Book Transformer

In you need transformation options, select the item ending in [...options] for your output type.

Options for The transformation

Select the type of the output transformation an press Accept. A dialog  inform you with the result of the transformation.

Dependencies

Install this packages

  • Zip
  • Unzip
  • Rar
  • Unrar
  • ImageMagick

Install

Untar the file

Home installation:

- place the desktop files in $(kde4-config –localprefix)/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
- place the cb_servicemenu script file in a directory in your path (I have ~/bin)

System-wide installation:

- place the desktop files in $(kde4-config –prefix)/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
- place the cb_servicemenu script file in /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/

Downloads

Last version

Versiones anteriores

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Documentation Generation in DITA format

7 August, 2010 Posted by ramso

This project is intended to generate documentation of standard models in the DITA output format. There are currently no open source tools to facilitate this work and that’s the main reason for initiating this project.

The choice of DITA as the output format is due to its flexibility as it is designed for generating technical documentation, because this is simpler than docbook and is better suited to my goals. (more…)