13 September 2011
The publishing company, specialized in mental health, has used ODFToEPub to convert about 900 titles to ePub. The books are now available at the Apple iBooks store. The Kindle versions can be purchased at Amazon.
6 April 2011
From now on you can have a complete online Pincette installation for 6 euro/GB/year, with an unlimited number of users. You start with 100 GB and then you can grow in a very flexible way according to your needs. Because the number of users is unlimited you have a very clear view on the cost, while you can manage your users with maximum flexibility.
31 December 2010
This subscription-based service is running on Pincette, the online document management service. It allows OPDS-enabled e-readers to browse and search through the entire personal e-book library of their users, wherever they are. Users can download any of their books any time. Those with a lot of books can use folders to organize them. personalbookspace is available for only 9.95 euros per year.
16 November 2010
BIND-spec
Pincette is actually a WebDAV-server. WebDAV is a set of specifications that define a protocol to do remote document management. WebDAV is also an extension of the HTTP-protocol. Currently Pincette implements RFC 2518 (with a few elements of RFC 4918), RFC 3253 (a.k.a. DeltaV, the versioning extensions to WebDAV), RFC 4331 (quota management) and RFC 3744 (access control lists).
Today RFC 5842 (a.k.a. the BIND-spec) has been added to this list. This lets you create additional bindings to existing resources. It is a great feature to manage your URI-namespace without breaking existing URIs.
11 November 2010
This new release can be built into applications. Publishers, for example, have the possibility to automate their e-book production processes. Combined with standard e-book templates for their authors this can greatly streamline the creation of e-books.
Other enhancements are the support of mathematical formulas (MathML), frame titles to improve accessibility, more meta-data support, horizontal table alignment and proportional treatment of paragraph margins for better reflow capabilities.
22 October 2010
ODFDiff is an OpenOffice extension for comparing ODF documents. It supports text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The differences are show using tracked changes, except for presentations. It also comes as stand-alone Java program for those that want to try it without installing OpenOffice. ODFDiff is fast and accurate.
24 September 2010
Pincette uses the new ODFDiff module to compare versions of documents in a fast and accurate way. It supports text documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the Open Document Format and text documents and presentations in Microsoft Office. Differences are presented using tracked changes, except for presentations. Users can quickly compare with the previous version or they can select any two versions of a document in its version tree. The ODFDiff module will also be released as a separate product.
17 September 2010
The ePub-format provides a way to embed fonts into a document. Whilst this increases the size of a document, it also makes sure the book can be displayed in any e-reader, regardless of the fonts it has at its disposition. Many e-readers have all the most used fonts on board or find them on the system they run on. However, those based on Adobe Digital Editions often lack glyphs for special characters or complete fonts altogether. This is why ODFToEPub now comes with an auxiliary tool to embed fonts in the generated ePub-document.
23 August 2010
The ODF Plugfest aims to improve the interoperability regarding the Open Document Format (ODF) ISO standard. It does this by promoting discussions between implementors and stakeholders of the standard. The fourth edition takes place at Brussels on 14 and 15 October. Pincette will be present with a presentation about ODFToEPub. Read more at http://www.odfplugfest.be/.
26 July 2010
ODFToEPub now comes with a stand-alone version. This makes it possible to generate ePub-documents without installing OpenOffice. Several other word-processors can export documents to the Open Document Format. Users of those tools can now convert to ePub in a more direct way.
9 July 2010
This new version adds a number of features that let you create professional e-books. You now get frames that can be floated and aligned. You have more control over the layout of the table of contents, the index of tables, the index of illustrations and the alphabetical index. There are also more internationalization features such as writing-modes and Asian and Complex ODF-styles. The spine and segmentation can now be controlled in a detailed way.
