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What is YourOwnNewsMaker?

YourOwnNewsMaker is a simple application was written on Qt4/C++ licensed on GPLv3. It allows you to grab rss and atom feeds and just simple web-pages and covert them to pdf or fb2 files. You can get it from here current version is build for Windows and Linux(src, rpm и deb packages). Current version 1.3.

Why do I need this application?

If you want to reed news offline using your e-book reader or just from the paper or if you want to create a nice book from several html pages you have to convert your content to some readable and printable format. Most e-book readers supports pdf, and pdf format allows to print the content on the paper easily. Also there are lot's of applications for mobile devices which supports fb2 format. So I do not see any need in supporting any other format.

What application supported platforms?

It works on Windows and Linux systems. On Linux it requires qt libraries.

What can I do if I do not like fb2 or pdf format?

You can easily convert from fb2 format to any other using Calibre application, it's also allows to upload your books to e-book readers.

What are the main features of YourOwnNewsMaker application?

Supporting of any rss, atom feeds. The feed's content is taken from the original web-page linked in feed's item. So You always get full content with images. Supporting convert from simple web-pages. This allows you to create your own books from the content you want. If you have lot's of links you could import them using text file. Simple GUI Wizard for creating parsing rules for web-pages. No need to know regular expressions, just use wizard. Scheduler. Update your rss and atom feeds in background.

Where can I find help for this application?

This FAQ is simple help. You can download last pdf version of the help from http://code.google.com/p/yourownnewsmaker/downloads/list If you have any other questions, you can post them to my e-mail: eeexception@gmail.com

How can I start working with the application?

Just add news source (Actions → Add source) where the source could be any link to the rss, atom feed or just to web-page. To update the content of the feeds manually press update source button (or Actions → Update source). To delete source use delete action. Before printing content to the fb2 or pdf format you can delete unnecessary news items by selecting them in content list and pressing delete button on your keyboard.

I added new source and want to make pdf/fb2 document but I'm getting Warning message.

You do not have parse template for the selected sources. Just create it using wizard. Select necessary source and any news item from the content list. Start wizard. On the first page select content you want to grub. Do not be afraid of html tags. By pressing next you go the second page where you get the result parser setting. You could change them if you know what you do. By pressing next you get in the last wizard page where you could check that the parsed content looks normal.

I do not like the pdf or fb2 document looks like. Is any way to change it?

You could add your own page templates. Just go to $HOME/.yourownnewsmaker/templates or $INSTALL/yourownnewsmaker/templates path and copy default-5inch directory to the new one. The name of the directory is name of template and it must contain six files (3 for pdf format and 3 for fb2 format). You could change them any way you like.

I've done something and application finished work.

It's very nice, you've found a bug. So try to reproduce it and send a report to me using form http://code.google.com/p/yourownnewsmaker/issues/list It's better if you append to the bug report your parser settings file for the site, url of the site, and the resulted document.

I like your application. It's cool and nice. Is any way how could I help you?

You could make a donation, I love beer and have to change my laptop(. Or could help me by testing the application. Also in future you could help with the localization.