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 Book Image" is Ctrl+F8
COMMENTS
With this option you can create the files for GEB1150/2150, REB1200 and Hiebook devices.
"Make Book Image" method creates the book file consisting of the filtered images of the book pages. The page image filtering uses special algorithms allowing one to make the output file size 30-50 times smaller. As a result despite of the output file size is several times bigger that the input one, it is acceptable for the usage with the device. The output file size depends on the chosen settings and typically it is about 4-5 mb per 1000 pages.
advantages
1. MultiLangual support (all the symbols supported by BookDesigner will be shown on the device screen).
2. Hyphenations.
3. Any fonts of the user choice.
4. Any font combinations in the book.
5. MultiLangual support is provided on the file level (without any changing in the device OS)
disadvantages
1. The output file is rather big (depending on the chosen settings, it can 3-5 or more times bigger than the input one).
2. Bookmarks and links are not supported.
hiebook comments
Because my hiebook is dead, I was not able to perform the checking of kml BookImage files with the real device. However I know from my past expirience that the hiebook behavior is quite unpredictable, so I suspect that the hiebook users will need to play with "page width" and "page height" values to adjust them properly for the device.
"Make Book Image" window
title: allows you to specify the book title.
author: allows you to specify the book author name.
device: allows you to specify the device type for which the file will be created.
paragraph indent: sets the paragraph indent (in spaces).
page width: sets the book page width (in pixels).
page height: sets the book page height (in pixels).
margins: sets the page margins (in pixels).
x-offset/y-offset: try to play with their values if you see horizontal/vertical borders around the page.
page preview: shows a single page preview and calculates the approximated output file parameters (size, creation time, etc).
font name: allows to choose the book font.
font size: allows to choose the book font size.
text type: allows to choose how many colors will be used to display the book text.
add/remove: adds/removes fonts from the "font name" list.
bold font: if checked, the bold font will be used.
equalize: if checked, all the gray levels in the text symbols will be converted to the black ones.
grayscale text: if checked, the colors will be removed.
show imp preview: if checked, the imp-file preview will be shown after the book creation.
make test file: if checked, only the short test file will be created instead of the whole book file.
browse: allows you to browse a picture which will be used as a book cover.
remove: removes the cover picture.
make book button: starts book creation.
clean BookImg dir: deletes all the books in BookImg subdirectory of Book Designer.
save file as: shows where the book will be saved.