MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Calibre now includes MS LIT converter: lit2lrf

shousa · 01-27-2008, 08:53 PM

I successfully changed a .lit with DRM to .lit without DRM and tested the file on a PC without microsoft reader activation and it worked.

Conversion using either libprs500 GUI or commandline only gave me the first 3 pages (Cover, publishing details and index) (so 3MB .lit file became a 99K .lrf)

Loading the .lit into bookdesigner produced only the first 3 pages.

Converting to .html made a mess of it with chinese characters (english OS).

BUT I could convert to .rtf using http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html then copy and paste the first 3 pages from bookdesigner into it.

The resulting .rtf was able to be converted to .lrf thru libprs500.

Two key points I want to make:
1) When all else fails abclit will do the job
2) I did however lose all the links (eg chapters and notes) and have generally lost links with all libprs500 .lit to .lrf conversions - is this normal?

Hope this finding contributes to those with .lit files that will not convert easily to .lrf - I did not see mention of abclit before, should someone make a sticky??

01-27-2008, 08:53 PM	#244
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	I successfully changed a .lit with DRM to .lit without DRM and tested the file on a PC without microsoft reader activation and it worked. Conversion using either libprs500 GUI or commandline only gave me the first 3 pages (Cover, publishing details and index) (so 3MB .lit file became a 99K .lrf) Loading the .lit into bookdesigner produced only the first 3 pages. Converting to .html made a mess of it with chinese characters (english OS). BUT I could convert to .rtf using http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html then copy and paste the first 3 pages from bookdesigner into it. The resulting .rtf was able to be converted to .lrf thru libprs500. Two key points I want to make: 1) When all else fails abclit will do the job 2) I did however lose all the links (eg chapters and notes) and have generally lost links with all libprs500 .lit to .lrf conversions - is this normal? Hope this finding contributes to those with .lit files that will not convert easily to .lrf - I did not see mention of abclit before, should someone make a sticky??