Hi!
I think that it's a simple problem but I don't found any documentation about the program.
I made a simple text (2 lines) and when I press the make button to make a "Sony Reader (lrf)" I receive the error
"Failed to make Sony Reader file"

I made the installation based on the wiki guide. First the setup and after the setup, overwrite the install directory with the content of the zip file.

I missing something?

Thanks in advance!

What operating system are you using? Is it Vista or XP?

Windows XP with SP2.

I'm running XP Pro and I don't have that problem.

When you try to make a Sony Reader book, does the requester pop up? is the path correct? Have you tried reinstalling and updating again? Are you logged into your XP with enough permission?

I have adminstrator rights in the computer. And I tried the same in two differents computers. At work and at home.
I made the following:
Click in the "Make eBooks" menu
Click in "Sony Reader (lrf)"
a window appears with title "Make Sony Reader file". I click the "make" button in the "e-book" box.
The windows close and I see some process in the status bar of the main window.
A new window appears with an ok button and the text "failed to make Sony Reader file" and in the status bar is wrote "...converting lrs to lrf..., wait, please..."
When I press the OK button returns to the "Make Sony Reader file" window.
I obtain exactly the same behaviour in two different computers, with different input text.

Thanks for your help!

What software are you running on your computer at startup? Maybe something you are running is interfeering. Do you have some sort of anti-spyware such as Norton?

Try disabling EVERYTHING you run on startup. See if that helps.

I have the same problem - has anyone come across a solution to this?

Where are you creating the file? If the destination directory does not exist or you have set it to read only it may fail.

I have never encountered this problem under XP Pro, XP Home, or XP MCE.

I think I have solved the problem. It has something to do with the version 5 upgrade. I re-upgraded with one of the beta updates (30/5/2007) and its now working fine

I tried all. I disabled all.
The destination directory exists.
Where I can dowload this old version to test?

Thanks

I think I have solved the problem. It has something to do with the version 5 upgrade. I re-upgraded with one of the beta updates (30/5/2007) and its now working fine
I have had the same problem using XP +Sp 2. Gingercats solution works for me too. Thank you so much.

Mogens

I found the version in the wiki. I confirm that the version 30/5/07 work ok.
(At least I don't receive the error message!)

Thanks to all the people for the help!

the version 30/05/2007 fixes the make problem but now Search and replace cuases it to crash - anyone else had this new problem and found a solution to it?

the version 30/05/2007 fixes the make problem but now Search and replace cuases it to crash - anyone else had this new problem and found a solution to it?
Try a full uninstall and then a reinstall followed by the upgrade. And then add the Book Cleaner files and use those as well. Set your language to German. And then fix all the other options. See how that goes.

If you have Vista, do not install in program files. if you have XP, program files is ok.

I can't say this will fix things, but it cannot hurt totry. Search/Repleace works fine for me with the latest version.

I've installed the basic install, and then the "production" update. I discovered I have this make problem, and so installed the 5/30 version. Now when I click the little Sony Icon I get "Book Designer has a problem and needs to quit, wanna tell Microsoft." How can I tell if this installation works. I'm using WinXP sp2.

The 5/30 version crashes for me, too. I use the previous (4/12) version which works fine for me.

Try a full uninstall and then a reinstall followed by the upgrade. And then add the Book Cleaner files and use those as well. Set your language to German. And then fix all the other options. See how that goes.


What are these book cleaner files and where do I get them from?

What are these book cleaner files and where do I get them from?
Try here. (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11649)

I use the 05/30/2007 version and it works for me. Your milage may vary. I am using XP Pro. What I suggest is trying the 04/12/2007 update and seeing if that works. If it works, then try the 05/30/2007 version. If that does not work, then go back to the 04/12/2007 version.

One thing I do suggest if the 04/12/2007 version works, disable everything that runs when the computer starts and try the 05/30/2007. It could be something you run that's getting in the way.

What are these book cleaner files?
The Book Cleaner files are settings for Book Cleaner that fix problems when loading your file into Book Designer. BD has problems with certain things and what BC does is convert the problem issues to something else that's not a problem, loads the file, and then converts back to what they were. The first use of BC was to fix emdashes. Then we found other problems and used BC to fix them.

What are these book cleaner files and where do I get them from?

Jon's given you the location of the files, but to explain further, "Book Cleaner" is a tool that's a part of Book Designer, which allows you to do "pre-processing" and "post-processing" of a file as it gets loaded by BD and converted to BD's own format. It's a very powerful method of automatically fixing common formatting problems.

One example of its use: Book Designer will generally break lines at the end of sentences. Some common abbreviations, like "Mr." will trigger a line break at a place where you really don't want one. With Book Cleaner, you can replace "Mr." by some other character sequence before BD loads the file, and then change it back to "Mr." again after BD's loaded the file. You can also do more sophisticated things, such as strip out multiple blank lines between paragraphs. It's a very powerful tool.