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Waiting for the fluid book format: KMWorld
“The big weakness in EPub is that it is so darn finicky. If you thought XHTML was fussy—make sure you close every door behind you, and don’t you dare butter your bread from the outside in!—you haven’t met its OCD cousin. Of course, I’m writing this having spent just about a full day trying to wrangle an uncomplicated book through its many hoops, including (and this to me is just too much) making sure that one of the various files is the first in the zip you ultimately produce. These are files with distinctive names and extensions that a compiler couldn’t miss. Aarggh!”
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Another High-Tech Barrier Falls in South Korea – Digits – WSJ
“Hancom, the developer of a word-processing program known to Koreans as Hangul and foreigners as HanWord, said this week it will open up the product’s source code so other people can modify it for smartphones, tablet computers and other new gadgets.”
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Weekend Project: Spring Clean your Photo Collection | Linux.com
“The broad outline we’ll follow is the same at the one used for music: find and eliminate duplicates, centralize storage, standardize the file names, then apply or fix the metadata. Image files have some key differences, though, particularly at the metadata stage, that deserve special attention. On top of that, because our photos are used as “read/write” information, unlike most people’s music libraries, we’ll have to pay special attention to the complexities that image editors can introduce.”
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