04-15-2007, 12:09 AM | #1 |
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Can Sony reader support Chinese?
Have toke long time to think about buying a iLiad or Sony reader...
iRex iLiad seems nicer screen, but easy to crashed, and repairing costs hundred euro, sounds terrible. So the only thing stop me to buy a Sony Reader is: Can it support Chinese? in PDF, TXT, RTF whatever. |
04-15-2007, 12:35 AM | #2 |
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TXT & RTF, no, PDF, yes -- you can put whatever you want in a PDF and it'll render it, with the qualification that you need to make the PDF pages the right size for the Reader's display. I don't think you could embed the a Chinese font into an LRF file using something like BookDesigner. I know that you can embed fonts in BD, but if I recall correctly it doesn't extend to radically non-English chars.
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Thanks!
“PDF, yes -- you can put whatever you want in a PDF and it'll render it, with the qualification that you need to make the PDF pages the right size for the Reader's display.” So PDF with Chinese words can be readable? that's good enough. Say for example, I can convert chinese RTF by PDFfactory to PDF, then it can be read in sony reader? |
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the PDF 'pages' seems a key fact to read on SONY, I use a rule to measure the 6' size, comparing a reader digist, it's only half size of the tiny magzine, it surprises me a little bit...
Coz it's not like what I thought and saw from those photos took on Sony reader |
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The exact size of the screen is 90mm x 120mm and yes, if you don't create PDF with the right settings, it'll look ugly.
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So... If use landscape mode reading, is it readable at normal A4 PDF?
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If you've got to deal with A4 sized PDFs, your best bet is to fall back on something like PDFRasterfarian.
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I have tried to convert some chinese books based on the format provided. But the reader only recognized the file in .txt format, not in the pdf format. The chinese book can not be read. Please help!
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NatCh,
Would you please let me know your config to convert your file to pdf? I dl some chinese books in txt format and I used MS word to open the files and follow all of the instructions to convert the file into pdf format. Unfortunately, when I import the file to ConnSoft, I can only get a blank page. Please help! |
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