Hi Volodymyr,
Nice to hear from you. That sounds like an excellent proposal and a
nice extra feature for AbiWord. Please take the time to do our
additional requirement of the screenshot and then spend some time
investigating abiword to come up with a defendable plan to implement
the ePub feature.
Cheers
martin
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Volodymyr Rudyj
<vladimir.rudoy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good day!
>
> I`m Volodymyr Rudyj, student of Chernihiv State Technological
> University, Ukraine. I`d really want to apply GSoC this year and from
> the list of the participating organizations one of the most interesting
> for me is AbiWord - in my educational projects I often use C/C++ so
> participating in development of AbiWord will give me really useful
> experience.
>
> In the project ideas list I found project that is the most exciting for
> me - it`s creating filters for work with ePub book formats. I often read
> books in electronic formats(FB2, ePub) and here is chance for me to work
> with one of these formats not from the users point of view but like a
> developer.
>
> Currently, there are two versions of EPUB specification available -
> 2.0.1, that is official and final and 3.0 in state of public draft. I
> think that it is possible to implement EPUB 2.0.1 export/import filter
> (existing code can be reused, such as XHTML export/import and .odt
> support plugin) and then use it to create EPUB 3.0 export/import filter,
> so it will be possible to create publications in modern electronic book
> file formats directly from AbiWord. What do you think about it ?
>
> Sincerely,
> Volodymyr Rudyj
>
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 28 08:36:36 2011
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