05-23-2010, 12:46 AM | #1 |
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My download/conversion/transfer procedure
Hello, all. New to the forums here. After lurking for a number of months I recently purchased a PRS-900. Shortly after setting it up I "Russified" with porkupan's hack (1.05a). Then I researched how to strip DRM so that I could have more freedom for reformatting books. I'd like to share what I've done, hope that others find this useful.
Initial mod: new fonts The Web Pro versions of Adobe's Myriad and Minion fonts look very nice on the PRS; I installed those in the /Data/epub/FONT folder. To make an across-the-board font replacement I created this userStyle.css file in the /Data/epub folder, which redefines serif and sans-serif to use the new fonts and adds some extra space between lines of text: Code:
@font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/AdobeWeb/MinionWebPro.ttf); } @font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/AdobeWeb/MinionWebPro-Bold.ttf); } @font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/AdobeWeb/MinionWebPro-Italic.ttf); } @font-face { font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/AdobeWeb/MyriadWebPro.ttf); } @font-face { font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/AdobeWeb/MyriadWebPro-Bold.ttf); } @font-face { font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; src: url(res:///Data/epub/FONT/AdobeWeb/MyriadWebPro-Italic.ttf); } html, body, p { font-family: serif; line-height: 133%; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 133%; } Book preparation and conversion Calibre is a fabulous program. I don't use the Reader software at all. WinRAR is helpful for opening up EPUBs, so I've installed that and associated the epub extension to it. Here's what I do for any EPUB book:
Here's what I do for any PRC or MOBI book:
This set of steps creates consistent nicely-formatted books that look great; the Adobe web fonts are a little thicker (without being blocky) so they appear to pop off the screen. I'm very happy with the results -- especially after I figured out how useless that .xpgt file is. |
05-24-2010, 06:00 AM | #2 |
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Thanks for sharing it with us.
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