Bible on Symbian

A free reader for free Bibles, as well as other reading materials, on Symbian? It turns out that there is no ideal solution now:

Olive Tree
Free (but not opensource) Bible reader for Symbian, excellent usability, but only handles file produced by Olive Tree. Even though file format is Palm's PDB, for example Palm Bible+ PDB files are not readable. So, use a general e-book reader for other reading materials? Such as Mobipocket.

Mobipocket
This general e-book reader is owned by Amazon, and is in fact quite cool. Its file format is Palm's PRC. It has a free (but not opensource) client for Symbian, and even a free software to convert MS Word documents etc into PRC format that it can read. But, since it does not read PDB format, and there is very little free Bible available for Mobipocket, it cannot serve as one-stop application for both Bible and other materials reading purpose. Installing both Mobipocket and a Bible reader would be an inefficient resource use and is not convenient.

SymbianBible (formerly S60Bible)
Free and opensource Bible reader for Symbian, ported from Palm, and reads Palm Bible+ PDB files. SymbianBible does not read Olive Tree PDB files. Olive Tree reader is slightly better, but this is good enough. Now, can this read other reading materials? Theoretically yes, as long as it is in Bible+ PDB format. But there is scarce information as how to create one. There is only information, i.e., the one in BibleConverter. BibleConverter is a Java program from Palm Bible+ that will convert a specially tagged text file into PDB file readable by Bible+. I tried creating PDB file using BibleConverter, but for unknown reasons the resulting file are often unrecognized by SymbianBible.

Other prominent e-book reader is Plucker, though opensource and has tools for MacOS X, but lacks Symbian support.

OpenOffice “Aqua”

It's rather difficult to find the place to download OpenOffice "aqua" version (for Mac). Here it is:

Porting site (but not uptodate?)
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html
Updated main site (in Japaese)
http://homepage.mac.com/oz_k/open_soft/aqua_ooo24.html
Download site:
http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/

Use Inkscape on Mac to do batch conversion

Here is how to use Inkscape on Mac to do batch conversion from SVG to PNG:

1. First, get Inkscape for Mac
2. Open Terminal then run as follows:

for i in *.svg; do /path/to/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape -f "$i" -e "$i.png" -w 1000; done


-w 1000 is make the size big (1000 pixels)