09-27-2009, 04:15 PM | #46 | |
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In the Options menu, there are some options for header/footer but again I don't see anything where I can specify anything about underlining. Could you point me in the right direction, or if it isn't too much trouble show me a screenshot of what you are referring to? Thanks a ton! |
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09-27-2009, 04:24 PM | #47 |
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You're obviously looking at the right place, Orion. I'm a bit puzzled because none of my books have underlined headers or footers. So I suggest that you play about with the header and footer options under "options."
I just have the title as a header and it isn't underlined. Perhaps the underlining is only with author and title? I choose the chapter titles for footers and they don't get underlined either. So I'm supposing that it depends on what precisely one chooses. |
09-27-2009, 06:50 PM | #48 |
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Hi Patricia. Thanks! Turns out it is (as you mentioned) the author+title that creates the underlining. If I just stick to title then it displays fine although it doesn't seem that you can change the font size for the header and the footer.
I had another question. Is it necessary to do the auto page break thing to generate page breaks at all the chapter headings (title style)? I'm asking because I don't thing Harry's guide specified doing that and I noticed that despite this, all the chapters in the LRF file I created ended up starting on new pages. It would seem that just having them formatted as "title" automatically creates the pagebreak although I could be wrong. Thanks for the help! |
09-27-2009, 09:23 PM | #49 |
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You're right about not being able to change the font size for the headers and footers, Orion. But I'm glad that the underlining problem is sorted out.
As for the chapter breaks: BD generally starts a chapter on a new page if you have labelled the chapter title as a "title." However, if ever you have a very short chapter - say if you are converting a book of poems - then BD tends to skip at least some of the pagebreaks. Harry and I are both tidy-minded, so we make sure that all the pagebreaks are inserted. This is also a useful thing to do if you are planning to convert the book into other formats, or to make a mobipocket book (via Mobipocket Creator) from the BD source. |
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Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks . I'm going to go play with BD some more. I hope you don't mind if I pop back in with more questions at a later time. The PRS-505 is arriving in the mail tomorrow and it is a gift for my fiance. I'm trying to create as many nicely formatted ebooks for her as I can so I can load them all up before gifting it to her
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09-27-2009, 10:40 PM | #51 |
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Please do, Orion. Your fiancee will be enchanted, I hope.
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11-24-2009, 06:03 PM | #52 |
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I'm not sure how I missed this post or the Wiki, but I did. Now that I've read them, there's something I'd like to offer as a correction or alternative to using German as the book language to correct accented/missing characters and ligatures. The problem isn't the language, but the encoding. BD is Russian software and as such, it defaults to Cyrillic for the encoding. For English books, if you change the encoding to Western European (Windows) or Western European (ANSI) all of those problems go away if you're using a font that has all the necessary glyphs.
This was obvious to me after the first couple of books I made with BD had Cyrillic characters in them. Knowing some Russian and having been a web developer for way too long, it was an easy thing to fix, but I can see where it wouldn't be apparent to most people. Now the first thing I do when I import a book is change the encoding. I'd love to be able to find a way to permanently set Western European as the default encoding, but Cyrillic seems to be hardcoded into BD and each new file will revert to it, so it has to be reset for every book. |
11-24-2009, 06:06 PM | #53 |
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Doh! I forgot to mention that the book encoding can be changed via the (what else?) book encoding item on the File menu.
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Patricia, does the formatting of the input file matter at all? I have scanned and OCRed my first book and am in the process of proof reading the text. When I scanned the book, the text contained section breaks at the end of each physical page and the margins were set at the size of the inputted book page. While editing, I've removed the section breaks between each page except at the beginning of a new chapter and increased the page size to a standard letter page with 1 inch margins. I'm working on it as a doc file but can save it as html, rtf, or txt for use in BD. Is this all okay or do you have a better suggestion?
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That all sounds fine, Kaz.
BD accepts docs. I wouldn't worry about the page size or margins: you can tweak these later, though I find the LRF default settings in BD are fine. |
03-08-2010, 10:34 PM | #56 |
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BD makes LRF and other formats using the book title as the file title. Most of the time this is fine. However, if you have already made a book with that title then it will be over-written.
This is easy to do because some titles are very common. Lots of works are titled, "Short Stories"; "Poems"; "Collected Poems". So if you've used the title before then alter the filename when making the book. You can do this in the "Make Sony Reader Book" pane; and in the IMP, LIT and other panes. |
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I'm new to scanning and producing ebooks. I've been trying out Ecub 1.1 with some success, but would like to produe an Epub version of a novel I own without having a TOC.
I scan with a home made scanner to a camera,OCR to text files and then assemble and compile. Any suggestions as to other software, etc. welcome |
04-03-2010, 10:07 PM | #58 |
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Book Designer doesn't do ePub. Calibre or Sigil do.
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GutenText and Win 7
Has anyone gotten GutenText to run in Win 7.
Although it installs with no problem, in reports it cannot find the logo. Everything sets up fine, it then claims it cannot find the file specified. That sure knocks out a useful tool. Bummer |
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