.ipef File, How to Read/Convert to PDF

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.ipef File, How to Read/Convert to PDF

24 October 2021, 15:13:48

I came a cross a private library that allows downloading books in a ".ipef" format.
https://www.ipublishcentral.com/
https://www.filedesc.com/en/file/ipef

I could only open the books using their app on iPhone.

I read while trying that it is Linux supported but couldn't find anything useful.

how can I:
- Read this file in Linux
- Convert ".ipef" to PDF (preferably a command line)

Any help highly appreciated.

UPDATE:
I noticed the downloaded file is like html code not a book actually! The app appears to just read the file(s) remotely.
So, the question remains -still- if there is a way to "remotely access" the book and save it PDF?
(I'll mark this as solved as it I feel it is really a meaningless pointless "file" format... there is no file initially)

Re: .ipef File, How to Read/Convert to PDF

Reply #1 – 25 October 2021, 11:48:54

Quote from: limotux – on 24 October 2021, 15:13:48

UPDATE:
I noticed the downloaded file is like html code not a book actually! The app appears to just read the file(s) remotely.
So, the question remains -still- if there is a way to "remotely access" the book and save it PDF?
(I'll mark this as solved as it I feel it is really a meaningless pointless "file" format... there is no file initially)

Upload a sample ebook on https://paste.artixlinux.org, but I doubt they'd be so naive as to "hide" a PDF link inside the HTML.

Re: .ipef File, How to Read/Convert to PDF

Reply #2 – 26 October 2021, 20:15:54

I think that it is some sort of copyright protection thing and you cannot directly convert to pdf and maybe even open in linux that files. But in theory you could screencapture every page and OCR them to pdf. In theory of course. Piracy is bad etc :-)

Re: .ipef File, How to Read/Convert to PDF

Reply #3 – 26 October 2021, 22:30:15

There was a suggestion on reddit to try and print to pdf, also perhaps you could copy paste each page but those options are probably pretty tedious if they even worked in the app, it could disable this possiblity. I see there is a Windows desktop app, perhaps if you installed wine and some related stuff, you can even run Windows versions of browsers in wine, so that might work if you couldn't find a Linux version of the reader. Perhaps you could ask the providers themselves? It says you need to be online, so as you say it probably doesn't really download the book anyway, the app is a viewer for online content.