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Version 1:

Source code: RealisticBook-v1.zip

Book samples: RealisticBook-Samples.zip


  • For Linux/Macintosh, you need to extract and install swftools-0.8.0.zip file before you can create a Realistic Book from PDF files. For Windows, you need to extract and install swftools-0.8.0.exe.
  • To create books from an HTML file that contains any Unicode character or HTML character entity references, please download RealisticBook-v1Unicode.zip instead
  • The “User Manual” book gives instructions on how to interact with Realistic Books and how to make your own books. Please send us your comments or suggestions about the books.



Version 2:

Source code: RealisticBook-v2-beta.zip

Source code with Unicode enabled: RealisticBook-v2-unicode.zip

Book samples: RealisticBook-Samples-v2-beta.zip

New features:

  1. Annotation
  2. Additional metadata to control the book's appearance and functionality
  3. Full text search function
  4. Bookmaker's Workbench, an application that allows you to:
    • Create a Realistic Book from multiple pdf, mp3, flv and html files
    • Control the appearance and functionality of the book
    • For books created from HTML files:
      • Enable full text search function over terms and synonyms
      • Automatically identify keyphrases in the document and cross-reference it to Wikipedia, and
      • Automatically produce back-of-the-book index

All features available in Realistic Books and Bookmaker's Workbench are described in Chapters 4 and 5 of Veronica's thesis.