RE: [Rbmake-users] My Local Images are not transferring

[Wayne D. <wa...@us...>]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
> rbmake -pfyi -oMatthew "C:\My Documents\ebooks\greek bible\Matthew.htm"

The -f option eats an argument, so you've given -f the "yi" argument
(which it interprets as "yes").  You should instead say "-pify".

One thing you can do to ask rbmake how it interpreted its options is to
output an options file.  Just put a -D at the start of the command-line
and it will output an options file to stdout.  If you like the options
file format, you can save it off (using redirection) and then load the
file instead of typing command-line options (e.g. rbmake -l my.opt).

> here I get this message when I select the [Image] link on my Rocket
> eBook after I load the page:

The images are imagemaps, which rbmake doesn't know how to process
(handling them would require an artificial intelligence "looking" at the
image and figuring out where all the interesting spots to click are --
in this case figuring out that the image is made up of words and that it
is possible to click on each word separately).

I first tried this command to create an entire NT:

rbmake -pif1 -oGreekNT -m'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/*'
    http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html

Here we've told rbmake to start on the chapters page, to descend only 1
link down from this page, and to allow references to the cgi-bin dir
that is not a part of the tree where we started.  This gives me a book
that has 261 pages and 499 images, which would have been more if we
hadn't run into the default table-of-contents size-limit (there were
7458 images excluded).

So, trying to get the whole NT in one book will be too big for the
rocket.  Let's try getting just Matthew:

rbmake -pif1 -N1024 -oMatthew
    -m'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/gnt?id=01*'
    http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html

Here we upped the maximum number of files we can include using the -N
option and limited the links followed to just the Matthew pages (by
extending the URL in the -m option).  This appears to have worked great
(but I didn't try to get the rocket to display it -- I looked at the 2MB
book manually).

If you go this route, you'll probably want to edit the start page down
to just mention the book(s) that you're including.

I hope this helps.

..wayne..