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review · 01-23-2011, 06:12 PM

@paolamanzini
I'm intersted in hearing your progress of your converted files once you've done it. My rtf files were rather simple. No tables no images, just here and there some greek or hebrew fonts. At the moment, I would strongly discourage you using anything in html. That's because the only available html viewer (fbreader) does a really bad job in interpreting html. Even the most simple formats or styles are simply ignored and I don't mean anything really advanced or sophisticated. No I mean things which worked with Windows Explorer 3.0 (some ten years ago). I was really struggling hard to get my Newsfeed reading program to the stage that the papers are somehow good to read. So at the moment, html is a really no-go on the 903 (and others probably as well). I haven't checked the formatting of my rtf files, I was simply glad that I could open them now at all.
However, if you have the latex files available, I would have thought that adapting the page layout of the latex file and then using pdflatex would give the most advanced books to read. I guess companies like http://pediapress.com/ do it in a very similar way. They claim that there is no difference in the layout quality compared to a traditional book which is exactly what would latex do for you. So what am I'm missing that you want to convert your files to rtf? Sure, with rtf it is easy to change the font size which would be that easy possible with the pdf.

01-23-2011, 06:12 PM	#243
review Addict Posts: 315 Karma: 6448 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: 903	@paolamanzini I'm intersted in hearing your progress of your converted files once you've done it. My rtf files were rather simple. No tables no images, just here and there some greek or hebrew fonts. At the moment, I would strongly discourage you using anything in html. That's because the only available html viewer (fbreader) does a really bad job in interpreting html. Even the most simple formats or styles are simply ignored and I don't mean anything really advanced or sophisticated. No I mean things which worked with Windows Explorer 3.0 (some ten years ago). I was really struggling hard to get my Newsfeed reading program to the stage that the papers are somehow good to read. So at the moment, html is a really no-go on the 903 (and others probably as well). I haven't checked the formatting of my rtf files, I was simply glad that I could open them now at all. However, if you have the latex files available, I would have thought that adapting the page layout of the latex file and then using pdflatex would give the most advanced books to read. I guess companies like http://pediapress.com/ do it in a very similar way. They claim that there is no difference in the layout quality compared to a traditional book which is exactly what would latex do for you. So what am I'm missing that you want to convert your files to rtf? Sure, with rtf it is easy to change the font size which would be that easy possible with the pdf.