--- psiconv/trunk/README 1999/12/02 18:05:36 36 +++ psiconv/trunk/README 2003/11/11 18:58:55 152 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The package consists of several parts: * Documentation about Psion 5 data formats; * A library which can be linked against application that have to read - (and in the future, perhaps write) Psion 5 files; + and write Psion 5 files; * An example command-line program which reads Psion files and writes more commonly used formats. @@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ or is not able to release the data formats of the saved files of their internal applications. I am trying to reverse engineer these data formats and to document them for general use. At this moment, I understand their -Word, TextEd, Sketch, MBM and Record files. I want this information to -be available to everyone, in order to write better file conversion utilities -for popular (non-)Windows programs. +Word, Sheet, TextEd, Sketch, MBM, Clipart and Record files, as well as a +few other less important formats. I want this information to be available +to everyone, in order to write better file conversion utilities for popular +(non-)Windows programs. All documentation is written in Psion 5 Word. Fortunately, the utilities in this package can translate it to HTML and other formats. @@ -45,11 +46,17 @@ it to programs which are also covered by that license. You can contact me if you need other license terms. +The following formats can be read at this moment: + Word Word processor files + TextEd OPL editor files + Sketch Picture files + MBM Alternate picture format; several pictures can be combined in it + ClipArt Internal picture format; several pictures can be combined in it + The parser is quite good at the moment. Page layout codes are not yet read, but almost everything that is described in the documents in the -format directory is supported by it. Of course, it can also not yet -cope with inserted objects (ie. documents in some other format) and -other as of yet undocumented things. +format directory is supported by it; but it can not yet cope with +inserted objects (ie. documents in some other format). Documentation is scarce; please examine the source code or the example psiconv program. Some things may also be found in the doc subdirectory. @@ -83,7 +90,7 @@ All ImageMagick graphic output formats are supported; depending on how you compiled ImageMagick, this is betwee 20 and 50 different formats. -Your favorite one should be somewhere... +Your favorite one should be somewhere in there... I would very much like to add other targets, like (La)TeX, RTF (Rich Text Format) and XML (for AbiWord). If other people want to work on this, please