«book publishing as easy as it should be»
easybook lets you easily publish books in various electronic formats (PDF, ePub and HTML). It was originally designed to publish technical programming books, but you can use easyboook to publish any kind of book, manual or documentation.
Regular users not using Git:
- Download easybook.zip file
- Uncompress
easybook.zip
file
Advanced users using Git:
# clone easybook repository
$ mkdir easybook
$ git clone http://github.com/javiereguiluz/easybook.git easybook
# download composer and install easybook vendors
$ cd easybook
$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar install
Regardless the way you install it, use easybook with the book
command:
$ cd easybook
$ ./book
If the last command doesn't work, try php book
or check book
script permissions.
easybook is fully documented at http://easybook-project.org/doc/
easybook-examples is a repository with several examples of how to use easybook to produce advanced and high quality books. This is by far the best way to learn easybook.
easybook is licensed under the MIT license.
Execute the following command to test easybook (requires PHPUnit):
$ cd easybook
$ phpunit
In order to generate PDF files, PrinceXML library must be installed. If you haven't installed it yet, you can download a fully-functional demo at:
http://www.princexml.com/download