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Introduction

This program converts text files into the format needed by Weasel Reader. It is written in Java and should run on any machine that has a Java 2 JRE available for it, which is most systems these days. It has been most heavily tested on Linux and Windows.

Features include:

• Automatically unpacks Project Gutenberg Zip files
• Multi language support for GUI (currently English and German)
• Graphical user interface and command line versions
• Text preview window
• Designed to support additional text formatting schemes (not fully implemented yet)
• Supports both Weasel Reader document compression formats

The first versions (up to 1.41) were written by Martin H. Smith. I began maintaining and changing JmakeZtxt with version 1.42. If you have suggestions or would like to provide a new language for JMakeZtxt, feel free to contact me at
khoho@users.sourceforge.net.

Source and binary code are available under the GPL Version 2 which you should read carefully. Because this program is supplied to you free of charge there is no warranty and I accept no responsibility for loss or damage this program may cause.

This program uses the Java port of GNU regexp available from http://www.cacas.org/java/gnu/regexp. Binary releases include it in the makeztxt Jar file. If you want to rebuild from source you must have it available.

The new format compression is provided courtesy of JZlib. This package can be obtained from http://www.jcraft.com/jzlib. Again, binary releases include it so you only need to download it if you want to rebuild from source. You must get at least version 0.0.2 of JZLib to get good compression ratios.