09-01-2009, 08:01 AM | #16 |
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So there was a similar bug with chapter titles as there was with chapter content. If the document was too big, the chapters and titles got all screwed up, but now the titles are fixed as well.
If you have book in process, you might see that chapter titles are empty. In this case just re-enter them and there won't be any screw-ups any more |
09-01-2009, 08:05 AM | #17 |
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I moved the thread out of the Writer's Forum. It doesn't belong there.
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09-01-2009, 02:18 PM | #18 |
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I don't create them with CutePDF; I create them with Acrobat Pro. Which, of course, is not freely available. I think there are freeware bookmark tools available, but I'm not sure what they are, and I'm certain they're not as smooth & simple as using Acrobat's conversion process.
But I suspect anyone who wants PDF ebooks for 6" screens, is going to want them custom formatted--if they didn't care about bold & italic, or choice of fonts & pt sizes, just wanted page splits and bookmarks per chapter, they can use LRF, Mobi or Epub files, depending on their reader. I'm not sure who falls in the niche of wanting ebooks in PDF format, with no choice of fonts, pt size, or margins, and no ability to include text formatting or pictures. The point of PDF is that it has all those features; for plain text with just the chapters marked, the other formats do much better. |
09-01-2009, 02:45 PM | #19 |
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I have to disagree based on my trial and errors I have come to stumble upon. I just created a book into PDF with my app in just 5 minutes of copy/paste that has font size optimized for 6" screen and margins as well and look damn good on my BeBook. I have tried to convert the same book with numerous different formats, and it always had some weird line breaks and other formatting issues... with just plain text. No matter if it was LIT or MOBI to EPUB. I spent more time searching for good solution to get good looking book optimized for my BeBook than it took me to code this app.
It is, after all, a user's own preference what format to use and how to obtain that format. There are tons of software doing the same thing that my application does, but it's about choise. You choose what you use and I just offer yet another option. Take it or leave it. |
09-01-2009, 07:09 PM | #20 |
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Forgot my password from yesterday; what do I need to do to get a new one? Or should I just register a new account name?
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09-01-2009, 10:27 PM | #21 |
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You can register a new one. As there is no need for email, there is no way of obtaining it as it is encrypted and I cannot find it out.
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09-01-2009, 10:37 PM | #22 |
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PDF is not an eBook format. So having your program called PDF Book Creator is incorrect.
PDF is a waste of time these days. You might create a PDF for say your 5" Opus, V5, or 300. But move that PDF to say a Kindle DX, Sony Daily Edition, Plastic Logic, any iRex and it looks awful. PDF being fixed is the issue. You have to create it for a fixed screen size and when you view it on other screen szies, it's not nice. |
09-02-2009, 04:59 AM | #23 |
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It has its drawbacks, but it is an ebook format, just like others. It's not good for distribution and portability (though the P stands for "portable"), but those are not compulsory features of an ebook.
DRMed files, the Kindle format, the LRF format, etc. are even less portable: they only work in particular devices, and yet they are ebooks, just like PDFs are ebooks. But not all ebooks have the same pros and cons. |
09-02-2009, 05:21 AM | #24 |
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You took words out of my mouth Jellby, thanks!
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09-02-2009, 08:26 AM | #25 |
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Just released a new version of the application.
Now it is called eBook Creator, because now you can preview and publish books in EPUB format as well. The EPUB portion is currently in beta phase, so I would like to have some testing done before really making it a full feature. So if you will, please go ahead and test the EPUB as well |
12-26-2009, 05:25 PM | #26 |
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a couple of questions
Spaze, et al:
New to the site, and working thru the terminology. A couple of questions: (1) By "create an ebook", does this also mean taking PDF files of, say, articles on a topic and creating a "book" in which these articles are grouped using a common table of contents? (2) Will this app take an existing PDF and enable me to create a table of contents where one now does not exist? Thanks. DT |
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Correction (15 Feb 2010): Cutepdf free version can produce any custom page size output. Last edited by bthoven; 02-15-2010 at 01:11 AM. |
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This program is very good! Thanks! Last edited by evitkus; 06-08-2010 at 01:11 PM. |
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Hi, were can i download this app?
Thanks in advance Fernando |
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