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EBook-Ishmael-1.00
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Changes for version 1.00

  • This is a major upgrade that introduces many changes that may be incompatible with previous versions of ishmael. Pay special attention to the Added, Changes, and Removed sections of this changelog if this concerns you. Added:
    • Added the -g/--image option: Dump all images present in a given ebook to a specified directory.
    • Added support for additional ebook formats.
      • Microsoft Compiled HTML (CHM)
      • Comic Book archives (cb7, cbr, cbz)
      • These new formats have introduced some new optional dependencies; chmlib for CHM, 7z for cb7, and unrar for cbr.
    • New metadata dump formats: pretty xml, normal xml, and normal JSON. See the changes section for information on how the new metadata dumping system works.
    • Added EXAMPLES section to manual.
  • Changes:
    • Rebranding as a general ebook dumper as opposed to just a plain text converter.
    • The -m/--metadata option can now dump multiple different formats of metadata; ishmael (the original), json, pjson (the original --meta-json), xml, and pxml. These formats are specified by an optional argument to --metadata (--metadata=<form>). This has removed the need for --meta-json to be a seperate option.
    • Changed default -c/--cover behavior. Output is now written to a file rather than stdout by default ("pick the right default"). You can also add a '.*' (dot asterisk) to the end of the output path name which ishmael will substitute for the image's format suffix.
    • The -c/--cover option no longer "dies" if a cover image is not present in an ebook.
  • Removed:
    • Removed the -o/--output option. The new way to specify output is via a second command-line argument following the given ebook file.
    • Removed the -j/--meta-json option. Please use --metadata=pjson instead.
  • Fixes:
    • When executing system commands via qx, ishmael now quotes arguments using single quotes instead of double quotes. This should mean that arguments with shell metacharacters should not cause unwanted behavior.
    • ishmael no longer relies on an EPUB's metadata file to specify the 'dc' namespace, which should fix reading some unconventionally formatted EPUBs.
    • ishmael now converts CP1252-encoded Mobis to UTF-8.
    • Unix time handling has been fixed for PDB-based formats (Mobi, AZW, PalmDoc, zTXT).
    • ishmael no longer recognizes unset creation/modification dates in PDB-based formats.
    • Fixed HTML/XHTML identification heuristics.
    • Fix documentation typos.
    • Fix test typos.
  • Improvements:
    • Format identification heuristics have been optimized.

Documentation

ishmael
EBook dumper
queequeg
Formatted HTML dumper for ishmael

Modules

EBook::Ishmael
EBook dumper
EBook::Ishmael::Decode
Ebook decoding routines
EBook::Ishmael::Dir
Get list of files from directory
EBook::Ishmael::EBook
Interface for processing ebook documents
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::Metadata
Ebook metadata interface
EBook::Ishmael::ImageID
Identify image data format
EBook::Ishmael::MobiHuff
Huff/CDIC decoder for MOBI/AZW
EBook::Ishmael::PDB
ishmael PDB interface
EBook::Ishmael::PDB::Record
ishmael PDB record interface
EBook::Ishmael::TextBrowserDump
Format HTML via text web browsers
EBook::Ishmael::TextToHtml
Convert plain text to HTML
EBook::Ishmael::Unzip
Unzip Zip archives

Provides

EBook::Ishmael::EBook::CB
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/CB.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::CB7
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/CB7.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::CBR
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/CBR.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::CBZ
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/CBZ.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::CHM
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/CHM.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::Epub
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/Epub.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::FictionBook2
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/FictionBook2.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::HTML
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/HTML.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::Mobi
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/Mobi.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::PDF
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/PDF.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::PalmDoc
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/PalmDoc.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::Text
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/Text.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::XHTML
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/XHTML.pm
EBook::Ishmael::EBook::zTXT
in lib/EBook/Ishmael/EBook/zTXT.pm

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