EPUB Plugins
The EPUB Plugins project contains the OS X Spotlight and Quick Look plugins for EPUBs. By installing these plugins, you can search and preview EPUBs.
System requirements
OS X 10.6+
Download and install plugins
To download plugins, go to Releases page and click download links in “Downloads” section.
To install plugins, unzip downloaded files and copy them to the following path:
EPUB.mdimporter (Spotlight plugin)
~/Library/Spotlight(only for current user) or/Library/Spotlight(for all users)
EPUB.qlgenerator (Quick Look plugin)
~/Library/QuickLook(only for current user) or/Library/QuickLook(for all users)
OS X recognizes these plugins after copying them to appropriate path. However, if the system doesn't recognize the plugins, run commands as follows:
$ mdimport -r /path/to/EPUB.mdimorter
$ qlmanage -r
or, simply reboot.
Spotlight importer
The EPUB metadata are assigned to OS X metadata as follows:
| EPUB metadata | OS X metadata |
|---|---|
| title | kMDItemTitle |
| creator | kMDItemAuthors |
| subject | kMDItemKeywords |
| description | kMDItemDescription, kMDItemHeadline |
| publisher | kMDItemPublishers, kMDItemOrganizations |
| contributor | kMDItemContributors |
| identifier | kMDItemIdentifier |
| language | kMDItemLanguages |
| coverage | kMDItemCoverage |
| rights | kMDItemCopyright, kMDItemRights |
| date | kMDItemContentCreationDate |
| last modified date | kMDItemContentModificationDate |
| Body text | kMDItemTextContent |
| Number of content documents in EPUB | kMDItemNumberOfPages |
| EPUB specification version | com_genjiapp_Murasaki_mdimporter_EPUB_EPUBVersion |
Quick Look generator
表紙画像をサムネイルアイコンに、プレヴューはざっくり 1MB 分を HTML として生成します。