Warning. If you are making your e-book from html, doc, rtf, prc, pdb or rb input file, always check "keep original format" or "re-format completely" in "Settings" before the input file loading.
Hot Key for "make Fiction Book file" is Ctrl+F5
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Fiction Book (fb2) file is the file for HaaliReader program. To my mind currently HaaliReader is the best reading program for Pocket PC platform. The program includes practically everything that the user needs for the comfortable reading: inner hyphenations, pictures, bookmarks, links, user-defined colors and styles. There are two versions of HaaliReader: for the Pocket PC and for the usual PC, both versions are for free.
Book preparation
If you want the fields book author and book title of the fb2 description to be filled out automatically with the proper information, do as follows.
1. Load the book to BookDesigner.
2. Run BookCorrector and assign the elements for book author and book title.
3. Correct the text of the book author element in the following way:
- if there are several authors, separate them by the coma;
- every single author name has to be arranged in the order: first name, middle name (if exists), last name. This operation can be easily performed using left words shift or right words shift buttons.
Make Fiction Book file window
Fiction Book Description window allows you to input the information related to the book. It is up to you to fill out or not the fields in this window. However if you are preparing your fb2 file for the distribution, it is recommended to fill out at least the fields "book gentre", "book author", and "book title".
clean: cleans up the book information in the Fiction Book Description window.
sample: loads the sample of description. If "russian help" is checked in "Settings", the Russian sample will be shown, otherwise the sample will be in English.
filename rus/filename lat: makes the fb2 filename using russian/latin letters. The filename is compoused on the base of current information found in the book author and book title filelds.
browse/remove: allows you to browse/remove the cover picture.
keep picture sizes: if checked, the pictures will not be resized to fit to the device screen.
empty lines: if checked, empty lines will be removed from the book.
bold style: if checked, bold style tags will be removed from titles.
line ends: if checked, line ends will be removed from fb2 file.
make book: makes fb2 file.
make zipped book: makes zip-archived fb2 file.
clean Fiction Book dir: deletes all fb2 books in fb2 subdirectory of Book Designer.
Fiction Book file name: allows you to specify the fb2 file name.
When the Fiction Book is created, two additional are appeared
read book: if HaaliReader for PC is installed in your computer, this button allows one to open a newly-created book.
go to file: shows a newly-created fb2-file in Windows Explorer.