02-22-2007, 12:41 AM | #1 |
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eb1150 and page breaks
Does the eb1150 recognize/respect page breaks? I was just trying to break up a rtf file to have each chapter start on a new page, but the unit itself doesn't respect the line breaks. I've tried doing this in both MS Word and Book Designer, and then converting them to the proper format using the eBookwise Librarian trial.
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02-22-2007, 06:27 AM | #2 | |
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If you are pressing your return key to create new lines then this won't work. I understand that rtf is converted to HTML before processing to the imp format. HTML ignores all empty elements and pressing the return key will produce empty elements. If you are using Word then it's best to use the insert/break/page break method. Or set up a style for your chapter headings and make sure that Page Break before is checked. |
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02-22-2007, 11:33 AM | #3 | |
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02-22-2007, 04:00 PM | #4 |
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To get chapters starting on new pages/screens you need a new-page command, which you specify in a style section in the HTML you feed to Librarian. Lots of stuff goes there.
Some notes here, with the style line you want being something like .pg {page-break-before: always} used something like <div class="pg" style="text-align: center"> <h2>Two: A Dash of Pepper</h2> </div><br /><br /> which will start that chapter at the top of the next screen. There are a bunch of commands you can use if you want to put in the time to make the output pretty. |
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Moonraker: That's odd. I've used the "insert page break" method using both Word and Book Designer, and haven't gotten the desired result. I'll have to look into the style option for chapter headings.
Jack: I think that's what I may end up doing in Dreamweaver, unless a simpler method develops that will meet my needs. Then again, I might just get used to it. Jadon: Thanks! I just noticed your response. I'm going to have to look at those links and play with the code. Last edited by sea2stars; 02-22-2007 at 04:14 PM. |
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08-31-2007, 12:31 AM | #7 |
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eb1150 and page returns
I actually noticed that Word page breaks (saved as RTF, anyway) are ignored with the GEB/Ebook Librarian program. They work just fine when I use the free program from Ebook Technologies, Inc. (the manufacturer of the eb1150 hardware/firmware).
I've had a few inconsistent problems with the GEB Librarian/eBook Librarian program:
So, even though the ETI program takes a little longer - and I've never figured out how to import an HTML file to it directly - I still prefer it to the GEB Librarian program most of the time. |
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You may need to make a few corrections since there are some differences but most of the it will make the book ok. Dale |
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09-09-2007, 06:14 PM | #9 |
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Well, thanks, DaleDe! That was so simple, I'm embarrassed! Now, the results weren't all that pretty* (I'm pretty picky about my formats) and I had to fix the image file links before I imported it, but it worked.
*(Odd characters at the start of some paragraphs [>], curly quotation marks showed as question marks, font was larger and bolder than I prefer for reading...) |
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09-13-2007, 01:28 PM | #11 |
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EBW-1150 and page breaks
The native markup language for the EBW-1150 (aka ETI-2) is OEBPS 1.2. The CSS for forcing a page break would be:
<p style="page-break-before: always" /> (or something similar).I don't know too much about Librarian, I think it uses a different mechanism to get from Word/RTF to OEBPS that we do in our tools (we go Word->RTF->OEBPS). I know that if you use our content tools (http://www.ebooktechnologies.com/sup...r_download.htm) when converting from Word or RTF, we will respect hard page breaks in the source documents. Converting these to something like the above. |
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