File Formats

Bible Study programs use various file formats.

The Sword Project respects copyright, and other Intellectual property Rights. As such, conversion of material that is under copyright is not supported by The Sword Project.

Bible Study Programs

Bible Works

This is a commercial product. The software contains a EULA that prohibits reverse engineering its file format. All material that uses this file format is protected by Copyright. As such it is both illegal, and immoral to convert it to a format that The Sword Project uses.

e-Sword

This program is distributed gratis. Most of the resources for this program are protected by copyright. As such, conversion into a format that The Sword Project is discouraged byCrossWire. There are no tools that directly convert the file format used by this program to one used by The Sword Project.

Libronix Digital Library System

This is a commercial product. The contains a EULA that prohibits reverse engineering its file format. All material that uses this file format is protected by Copyright. As such it is both illegal, and immoral to convert it to a format that The Sword Project uses.

Zefania

This is a FLOSS Bible Study Program. Some of the resources available for this program are under copyright. The conversion of those resources to The Sword Project is discouraged.

File Formats

Zefania XML

This is the native file format for Zefania. There are several tools that will convert material into this file format.

Utility Programs

Zefania TextConvertor

This program converts resources into Zefania XML.