ebviewer

Very simple dictionary search application supporting;

• EPWING(w/ Graphics, Sounds and Movies)

• EPWING ebz compression (.ebz)

• LingvoDSL (.dsl)

• LingvoDSL dz compression (.dsl.dz)

• MDict (.mdx, .mdd)

• StarDict (.ifo .dict)

• StarDict (.dict.dz)

• PDIC/Unicode (PDIC format v6.00, 6.10) (.DIC)

  

Install

You can download a binary zip archive from github release

• Download v0.7.1 binary distribution

After downloading the zip archive, please extract zip archive to arbitary folder. The applicaiton is written by Java, you can run the application on any PC platforms, such as macOS, Windows and Linux.

Run

On linux or macOS which already have java 11 or later installed and set PATH properly,

ebviewer-0.7.1/ebviewer

On windows

ebviewer-0.7.1\ebviewer.bat

When you have java but there is no PATH set,

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk11.0.123.456\
ebviewer-0.7.1\ebviewer.bat

Dependency

You need to install Java Runtime Version 11 or 17 on your operating system. When you want to watch movie in your dictionary, VLC is required.

Build from source

ebviewer uses Java and Gradle build system.

From source distribution

unzip ebviewer-source-0.7.1.zip
cd ebviewer-source-0.7.1
./buildw.bat build

From github git repository

git clone https://github.com/eb4j/ebviewer
cd ebviewer
./gradlew build

Origin

Some codes are borrowed from omegat-plugin-epwing and OmegaT project.

License

Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Hiroshi Miura

Copyright (C) 2020 Suguru Ono

Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Aaron Madlon-Kay

Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Didier Briel

Copyright (C) 2014 wak

Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Alex Buloichik

Copyright (C) 2007 Zoltan Bartko

Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Keith Godfrey, Maxym Mykhalchuk, and Henry Pijffers

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.