xmldirector.bookalope 0.3.2

Plone/XML-Director integration with bookalope.net

xmldirector.bookalope

Integration of

• Plone (https://www.plone.org)

• XML Director (https://www.xml-director.info)

• Bookalope (https://bookalope.net)

This Plone 4/5 add-on allows to generate Ebook formats (EPUB, EPUB3, Mobi) and other formats (ICML, PDF, DOCX) from content stored in XML Director.

Requirements

• Plone 4.3 (tested)

• Plone 5.0 (experimental, in progress)

• XML Director (xmldirector.plonecore)

Configuration

Install xmldirector.bookalope through the Plone add-on installer and configure your Bookalope API key and choose if you are running against Bookalope’s production or beta environment.

API

There is only one public API method in order to interact with Bookalope from XML Director code (see xmldirector/bookalope/browser/api.py):

convert_bookalope(context, source, cover=None, formats=[], title=u'', author=u'', prefix=None, storage_path='result')

• context - a XML Director Connector instance

• source - source path of the DOCX file inside the directory configured for the given Connector context e.g. src/index.docx

• cover - source path of cover page image

• formats - a list of formats to be generated (supported: epub, epub3, docx, pdf, icml, mobi)

• title - title used for the ebook

• author - author name of the publication

• prefix - generated files will be stored under result/<prefix>.<format>

• storage_path - subpath used to store the generated ebook files

License

This package is published under the GNU Public License V2 (GPL 2)

Source code

See https://github.com/xml-director/xmldirector.bookalope

Bugtracker

See https://github.com/xml-director/xmldirector.bookalope/issues

Author

Andreas Jung/ZOPYX

Hundskapfklinge 33

D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany

[e-mail]

www.zopyx.com

Changelog

0.3.2 (2016/06/27)

• updated to latest Bookalope API changes

0.3.1 (2016/04/06)

• cleanup and minor improvements

0.3.0 (2016/04/06)

• added new Bookalope UI

0.2.0 (2016/04/05)

• major cleanup

• various fixes

• added REST API endpoint ‘xmldirector-convert-bookalope’

0.1.0 (2016/04/04)

• initial release