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 rb-file" is Ctrl+F1
HOW TO CREATE RB-FILE
General comments
The rb-file is a file for the electronic reading device named Rocket eBook and its modification named REB 1100 (in what follows both devices are referred as eBook). Book Designer has an option allowing one to create an rb-file from the currently loaded file and to send it to eBook. To be able to send rb-file to your eBook you need to have either RocketLibrarian program (shipped with Rocket eBook, can be downloaded from http://www.rocket-ebook.com/Readers/ ) or eBookLibrarian program (shipped with REB 1100) installed in your computer. The user can choose itself what of the two programs will be used for uploading of rb-file to eBook.
Hyphenations
BookDesigner can insert into rb-file the two types of hyphenations: hard hyphenation (the box hyphenate) and soft hyphenation (the box soft hyphenation) .
Warning. Due to the bug in the present Rocket eBook (REB 1100 ) firmware, the both devices are working not well with softly hyphenated rb-file. The soft hyphenation option is working however it is not recommended to use it until they will fix (I hope) this bug.
Hard hyphenations
Before you can use the hard hyphenation option (the box hyphenate), BookDesigner has to know what fonts are installed in your device. This operation takes several minutes and you have to perform it only ones.
1. Make a new empty directory c:\fff in your PC.
2. Find in the subdirectory tools of the main BookDesigner directory the file rebtalk.exe and copy it to c:\fff. If BookDesigner has been installed to its default location, the main BookDesigner directory is C:\Program Files\Book Designer 4.0
3. Connect your device to PC and switch it on.
4. Run MS DOS Prompt in your PC.
In MS DOS Prompt window, ussue the following commands:
c:
cd fff
rebtalk get large.rbf large.rbf
rebtalk get small.rbf small.rbf
5. Copy the files large.rbf and small.rbf from c:\fff to the subdirectory \tools\fonts of the main BookDesigner directory.
Warning. If large.rbf or small.rbf or both files did not appear in c:\fff , you will need to extract the system fonts from your eBook. Reed "How to get system fonts" section below.
7. Run BookDesigner, load some book, press make Rocket file icon, check hyphernate and press font manager button.
8. The font names will appear in "fonts found" window of Rocket Font Manager with the names corresponding the font file names (i.e. large and small). For convinience of usage it is recommended to rename the font files [for example as large (Verdana).rbf and small (Verdana).rbf]. If so, Rocket Font Manager will show them as large (Verdana) and small (Verdana).
9. Close Rocket Font Manager.
10. Press make rb-file bottom, load the newly-created rb-file to your device and choose the proper font size (Small Print or Large Print).
How to get system fonts
1. Make a new empty directory c:\fff in your PC.
2. Find in the subdirectory tools of the main BookDesigner directory the file rebtalk.exe and copy it to c:\fff. If BookDesigner has been installed to its default location, the main BookDesigner directory is C:\Program Files\Book Designer 4.0
3. Switch off you your device.
4. Connect your device to PC.
5. Holding both "up" and "down" buttons, switch your device on and wait until the grid on the screen will appear. Release "up" and "down" buttons.
6. In MS DOS Prompt window, ussue the following commands:
c:
cd fff
rebtalk get sysIcons.rb sysIcons.rb
5. Find in the directory c:\fff the file sysIcons.rb.
6. Switch off you your device and then switch it on.
7. Run BookDesigner, load some book, press make Rocket file icon, check hyphernate, drag&drop the file sysIcons.rb to the installed fonts window, and the font names small_sys and large_sys will appear in the installed fonts window.
8. Press font manager button, choose the font suitable for your needs.
9. Close Rocket Font Manager.
10. Press make rb-file bottom, load the newly-created rb-file to your device and choose the proper font size (Small Print or Large Print).
Text Fields
title: allows one to enter the book title for eBook Shelf and About This Edition menus.
author: allows one to enter the book author for eBook Shelf and About This Edition menus.
gentre: allows one to enter the book gentre for About This Edition menu. The gentre will appear instead of ISBN.
Check Boxes
paragraph indent: allows one to specify the paragraph indent.
remove REB paragraph separations. Following to the "smart" US e-book publishing style, REB1100 firmware always inserts empty lines between paragraphs. If this "smart" feature irritates you, check this box. Note. Rocket eBook is free of this "empty lines" disease.
hyphenate: if checked, hard hyphenations will be inserted into rb-file.
soft hyphenation: if checked, soft hyphenations will be inserted into rb-file.
Russian eBook system: if checked, Russian language will be used for eBook Shelf, Go To and About This Edition menus. Warning: check this box only if your eBook has the russified firmware.
save rb-file: if checked, the newly-cleated rb-file will be saved either to rb subdirectory of BookDesigner main directory or to the user-defined directory if it was assigned through "set path" in "Settings" menu.
latin filename: if checked, Russian letters in the output filename will be replaced by their Latin equivalents.
show RB preview: if checked, the preview of newly-cleated rb-file will be shown. Warning. If the box "hyphenate" is checked, the preview may not work properly.
cover width: allows one to specify the book cover width (in pixels).
save file as: appears if the box save rb-file is checked. Shows where the rb-file will be saved.
Buttons
CyrLat: converts Russian title and author to their Latin equivalents.
browse/remove: allows one to browse/remove the book cover picture.
make rb file: starts the rb-file creation from the currently loaded book.
cancel: closes "Make rb-file" window.
clean rb dir: deletes the rb subdirectory of BookDesigner main directory .