[Dtb-talk] Obi Help

[Greg Kearney]

I hear you and I had to go through the same thing myself. Mac versions  
of these are a bit more self contained but not by much. I didn't have  
anything to do with Obi but I'll looking into a MAc port of it and  
will take your comments into consideration.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney at gmail.com



On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Good afternoon Greg and listers,
>
>    I would like for once to receive a free DAISY creation tool that
> wouldn't prompt me to install this and that other utility in order  
> to permit
> me to get the thing on my system and use it correctly. I ran in to  
> this with
> the save as daisy add-in for MSWord and Obi.
> I needed to upgrade the .Net Framework and was prompted to upgrade  
> both the
> JAVA Run-Time Environment and Microsoft Direct X. Obi prompted me to  
> upgrade
> the JRE and proceeded to allow me to run the installer so it could be
> upgraded. Because Obi was still being installed the JRE installation
> aborted. Even after installing the JRE by itself Obi still prompted  
> me to
> reinstall it again and I was back with the same problem. It didn't  
> make any
> attempt to install Direct X. Obi wouldn't install on my system.I  
> appreciate
> the effort put in to developing these programs, but would appreciate  
> more
> effort being made to help users get them up and running with a minimum
> amount of fuss and frustration.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] xmldtbook to NISO Z39.86
>
>
> What you want is the DAISY Pipeline a free program for the DAISY
> Consortium http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/
>
> It is a cross platform tool that takse DTBook XML files verifies them
> as valid and will generate DAISY/NISO z3986 and DAISY 2.02 valid  
> books.
>
>
> Greg Kearney
> 535 S. Jackson St.
> Casper, Wyoming 82601
>
> 307-224-4022
> gkearney at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:33 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Could someone please recommend a tool for producing all the files
>> necessary in a NISO Z39.86 conforming book, starting from the textual
>> content ?
>> The tool should produce the package file, the .cnx file, and also the
>> required SMIL content.
>> Does such a tool exist ?
>> Also, there is a strong preference for free software.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any hint,
>> Sébastien.
>>
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