05-05-2008, 10:06 AM | #1 |
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Format of RTFs?
Hi everybody, I just got my first ebook today after finding these forums a couple of weeks back and reading the suggestion-threads.
I have a large archive of books in RTF format, and for future compatibility I'm not really interested in converting all of these to the LRF format. I would love for them to appear "properly" on the reader though, as in the book title and author being properly recognized by it. I see some of my books appear to be listed correctly, others are just listed as the filename, and some even have some weird, but real, author names that I can't seem to find anywhere in the files. So, how do I name the RTF files so that the title and author is parsed correctly by the Sony reader? Oh, I have the 505 if that matters in any way, and I'm on OS X so I can't use the software that came with it. |
05-05-2008, 12:40 PM | #2 |
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That's why I've been working on making .pdfs to view on the Sony --- should be pretty straight-forward w/ the .rtfs on Mac OS X, just open them in TextEdit.app and ``print'' to a .pdf.
There's been some discussion of this, and ISTR someone having posted a .ppd file which would optimize such .pdfs for pagesize and fontsize. William |
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05-05-2008, 12:42 PM | #3 |
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But what is the reader doing to get the title of the book and the author from the RTF files? It must be parsing it somehow?
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05-05-2008, 12:45 PM | #4 |
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They're encoded in the header of the RTF. This thread will likely be of interest, and help to you.
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05-05-2008, 12:47 PM | #5 |
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It's the document information. If you have Microsoft Word, display the document properties, and simply fill in the "Author" and "Title" fields.
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05-05-2008, 05:26 PM | #6 |
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Thank you! Seems I can edit this in TextEdit.
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