09-27-2006, 04:41 PM | #1 |
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Does the Reader support ebooks in Russian or Greek?
Does the Reader support ebooks in Russian or Greek?
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09-27-2006, 04:44 PM | #2 |
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We don't know yet. I'll be trying russian RTF/PDF/TXT once I get mine. Also I can ask to try them Mobilereader who gets Reader first, I have nice zip package prepared already
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09-27-2006, 05:29 PM | #3 |
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Considering the manual mentions Bitstream Dutch and Swiss, support for either of the two languages with just the built-in fonts is unlikely. However, I suspect that both PDF BBeB with embedded fonts should work.
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09-27-2006, 05:36 PM | #4 |
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The Librie had no Russian or Greek fonts. My review of the source files posted by Sony for the Reader revealed no Russian or Greek fonts.
On the Librie you could embed Russian and Greek fonts into a BBeB ebook. PDF supports embedded fonts and I'd be simply amazed if the PDF viewer in the Reader didn't support this basic PDF feature. Indeed its lack would effectively hobble the Reader's ability to properly process many english language PDF files which often contain embedded fonts that lay outside the famous Postscript gang of 35. |
09-27-2006, 05:43 PM | #5 |
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I prepared following files so far
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C:\>unzip -l russian_text_test.zip Archive: russian_text_test.zip Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 81487 09-27-06 15:21 russian.rtf 440441 09-27-06 15:24 russian_embeded_fonts.pdf 6176 09-27-06 15:25 russian_win1251.txt 261139 09-27-06 15:24 russian_without_fonts.pdf 5328 09-27-06 17:39 russian_win1251.lrf -------- ------- 794571 5 files |
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09-27-2006, 05:45 PM | #6 |
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Slava, why don't you upload the files to the board. I promise we'll have faster test results
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09-27-2006, 10:51 PM | #7 |
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>Slava, why don't you upload the files to the board. I promise we'll have faster test results
Indeed, here is zip archive with Cyrillic text in RTF/TXT/PDF formats (Win1251 code page). Thanks in advance to whoever can test them before I do |
09-27-2006, 11:43 PM | #8 |
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Slava, here's some info on what I think you will see. It's partially good news.
russian_embeded_fonts.pdf -- Will display the Russian. It's a little hard to predict (well, without experience anyway) how big or small something will look. Some light colors tend to show very light and may not be real readable, but yellow shading may be okay. I expect that the underline and strikethru are okay for you also. russian_without_fonts.pdf -- Not sure. It might. russian_win1251.txt/russian.rtf/BBeB -- these probably won't work for you |
09-27-2006, 11:48 PM | #9 |
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Bob, thank you for testing it! I can live with PDFs
One would expect that in an age of globalization (and partially - unicode), Sony would release reader capable of showing most of national character sets. Well, may be next one |
09-28-2006, 04:25 AM | #10 |
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Hey Slava,
when are you gettin' yours? |
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Update: Delivery date just changed to 10/07 Last edited by Slava; 09-28-2006 at 09:10 AM. |
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09-30-2006, 01:53 PM | #12 |
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I am upset: no selecting encodings/Unicode in txt and rtf.
does anybody thing that a homebrew fix can do the trick? |
10-01-2006, 10:11 PM | #13 |
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>does anybody thing that a homebrew fix can do the trick?
Hopefully, someone will do that |
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You need (b) a rasterizer that does the rest. Font Fusion should do, unless it has been trimmed down in any way. You need (c) a TXT/RTF reader that is capable of handling the wide characters and the particular encodings you want. Well, that, too, is just a SMOP, but I very much doubt that Sony has bothered to do it for this particular release. |
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10-02-2006, 04:13 PM | #15 | |
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Here is a small russian book encoded to utf-16, try it please in Sony Reader. http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f.../Las-Vegas.lrf |
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