01-23-2007, 10:17 AM | #16 |
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Thanks, I'll do some more formatting and see what I can come up with
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01-24-2007, 06:41 AM | #17 |
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To be really useful (that is, something I'd use rather than converting the book to RTF then to PDF) it would need these features (as settable options):
- Parse and use style files (in some cases this could be replaced by forcing a font size and name). - Change the specified font and scale the size (for readability) - Embed non-standard fonts in the LRF. - Possibly enforce format changes (i.e. all boldface) for readability, convert full-justify to left-justify as this may be more readable). - handle LRF files with multiple HTML files embedded (some books have the text divided into many small files). - TOC would be nice, especailly for long books. |
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01-24-2007, 06:52 PM | #18 |
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Nice work Waykohler... this is a great tool! Much easier than converting it all manually, and nicely formatted too.
So far the only .lit that hasn't worked is a copy I have of Ken Follett's - Pillars of the Earth, but that is a problem with clit itself. I have never been able to convert that file for some reason. Luckily I have a paperback copy of it |
01-26-2007, 02:14 AM | #19 | |
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Hm, style file. Can you describe this in more detail? Im afraid I dont know what that is. There is a style section in the html but I dont think I have seen a lit with a style file. The font size can be changed by pressing the size button on the reader. Not exactly what you want but.... Non standard fonts... Hm.. I always meant to not use the fonts in the LIT itself but reformat it totally according to my rules. LIT files has a tendency to be formated very differently and I like my books standardized. If you don't like my style... Well I'll see if I can do a "style" editor later on. It actually does handle multiple html files in one LIT file. Is does a page break in between them. Yupp TOC would be nice. |
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02-03-2007, 10:58 AM | #20 |
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Hi! Thanks a lot for your application.
I got this error when trying to transfor a lit file. Extracting. Converting. This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. If you want please send me a private message and I could send you the .lit file Thanks. |
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03-14-2007, 10:53 AM | #21 |
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Any news on this?
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03-15-2007, 08:39 AM | #22 | |
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In explanation for some of these requests, I am looking at how to use the contents of a Microsoft Reader file. This consists of (at least for this book) a set of HTML files (about 40, with one chapter, title page, cover etc. in each) and links to form the book. All style (paragraph and fonts) is in .CSS files (these are the page style files) for the text, with embedded tags in the text to select a style and to to set bold, italic etc. So these files need to be changed in order to set font face and style. Finally, the nonstandard fonts are to make the text more readable on the smaller, lower contrast Sony Reader display. This really needs a larger font with fatter strokes such as a boldface Arial or Tiresias Bold. Times Roman types just are not very legible to me on the reader. In the end, on this project I had to just convert the LIT to HTML, then the HTML to RTF (thus losing all pictures and structure), then hand-splicing the RTF files back into books, then convert all but boldface to boldface Arial and the ofiginal boldface to boldface Courier New (as boldface was critical for this book). Not great, but at least the Reader could handle the resulting RTF file well. I also tried converting to a PDF file with embedded fonts, but anything over 300 pages was ridiculously slow in turning pages in the last half, and there seemed to be a hard limit of 1000 PDF pages (I have not been able to get feedback as to whether anyone else has encountered this limit). This is not something I'd want to repeat on a lot of books. So some kind of way to embed the desired fonts in the LRF and to change font type and size tags in the CSS and HTML files would be enough. As for the TOC, I'd be OK if there was a page with links that could be bookmarked, then navigated via the existing HTML links. |
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03-16-2007, 05:52 AM | #23 |
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I am running into problems with lit2lrf -- I downloaded the 3 free ebooks from silkpagoda in .lit format (just to test things out).
I was able to get lit2lrf to run apparently, but encountered the following: dragga.lit (103KB) became dragga.lrf (3KB) and in the desktop Connect software the .lrf book shows that there are 2 pages but they are blank. jourwest.lit (1.3MB) became jourwest.lrf (1.6MB) but when I open in the Connect software Journey West opens showing 1 page, which is blank. What did I do wrong? I extracted all 3 of the zipped programs into c:\lit2lrf and I get no error messages when attempting the conversion. |
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Any idea what would cause this?
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03-31-2007, 10:22 PM | #25 |
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Is this locked in to Windows?
You mentioned it's a command line tool, and I've had some luck so far compiling other things. I've actually been added paragraph flow and smart quote support in makelrf3 under Mac OS X Intel (endian's an issue, so the Intel saves me here). -Pie |
04-01-2007, 06:13 PM | #26 |
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i cant get it do more than start in a dos window and it closes in less than a second. i also tried typing out the command line any ideas?
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05-14-2007, 02:30 AM | #27 |
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Use the -v option. This fixed the "not doing anything" behavior for me, but the file I converted had the first word of every paragraph missing.
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05-14-2007, 03:38 PM | #28 |
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A more powerful (cross platform) alternative
clit + html2lrf |
05-19-2007, 02:16 AM | #29 |
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Hi kovidgoyal.
Could you tell us the website for clit. I Googled but clit it's a very used word |
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