wdic-fpw
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Wdic-fpw is a Perl/FreePWING script to convert the Wired and Wireless Dictionary (WDIC) files into a JIS X 4081 formatted e-book. WDIC is one of the largest free encyclopedia in Japan compiled by the voluntary members, which covers mainly, but not limited to, networking and communictations terminologies.

Latest Version : 1.5
Target Data : Wired and Wireless Dictionary 2005 1sd Edition
# of Entries : 31,175 on CD-ROM (32,435 words)

Starting with version 1.3, wdic-fpw supports embedding the WDIC plug-in files (in JPEG, PNG and plain text formats) into the book along with the ordinary text contents. This requires, however, much more time and disk space for conversion. If you do not like to run a heavy-loading conversion process nor to download a large pre-converted package, you may order a CD-ROM that contains a converted book as well as the original dictionary files and some other materials. See the Products page at WDIC Web site for more information (in Japanese).

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* Distributions

The converted book should be used in conformity with terms and conditions of the original dictionary. The conversion script can be used, modified and/or distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.

Converted Book
The latest version will be available on the CD-ROM.
wdic-fpw1.4.zip (2004-07-26 / 47,898 KB)
WDIC 2004 2nd edition in JIS X 4081 format, converted by wdic-fpw 1.4.
Source Package
wdic-fpw1.5-src.tar.gz (2004-12-13 / 60 KB)
Designed for WDIC 2005 1st edition.
wdic-fpw1.3b-src.tar.gz (2002-12-14 / 50 KB)
Designed for WDIC 2003 1st edition.
Older version(s) may be found here.
Original Data
Related Tools
wdic-fpw-pkg.el (2004-08-25 / 5 KB)
An impromptu Lookup package for a book generated by wdic-fpw, which fills the paragraphs with appropriate prefixes and converts URLs into clickable links (sample screen shot).
Distributions

* Software Requirements for Conversion
  • FreePWING
  • Jcode.pm
  • To embed graphic plugins:
    • JPEG to BMP converter (djpeg by default)
    • PNG to BMP converter (pnb2bmp by default)
    • BMP quantitization command (yPadie by default)
  • To embed sound plugins (experimental):
Requisites