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Megatron-UK · 04-07-2008, 06:36 AM

I'm converting a PDF of a large book (Stephen Kings 'The Stand', uncut version) using BookDesigner and I'm having a few issues when outputting to LRF.

The PDF imports relatively cleanly and I've removed all of the erroneous TOC entries, so that it is a clean list of chapters now; divided into Sections. So I have one page with all of the Chapter links for Book 1 as follows:

Chapter1 Chapter2 Chapter3
Chapter4 Chapter5 Chapter6
etc..

... and then all the links for Book 2 on a second page, and Book 3 on a third.

All main text is paragraph formatted and I have inserted scans of the 12 illustrations as found in the book into the correct locations.

The problem is that when I generate the LRF output, instead of the correct structure:

Title page and Author
------
Book 1 chapters TOC
------
Book 2 chapters TOC
------
Book 3 chapters TOC
------
Chapter 1
------
Chapters N <- interspersed with illustrations at the correct places
------
Final Chapter
------

I get the following messed up format:

Title page and Author
------
Book 1 chapters TOC
Book 2 chapters TOC
Book 3 chapters TOC
------
Illustration 1
Illustration 2
Illustration 3
...
Illustration 10
Illustration 11
Illustration 12
------
Chapters 1 through to the Final Chapter <- No illustrations

So I seem to have several problems;
1. The page break I insert between the TOC pages are removed.
2. Nearly all the chapter links in the TOC pages stop working - ie they don't highlight and you can't click them.
3. The remainder of the *working* links in the TOC pages link to Illustration 12, no matter where they link to in the book.
4. All of the text in the document changes to centred and what appears to be a bold font.
5. All of the illustrations are moved to directly after the TOC pages, despite being inserted into the correct locations in the text.

This kind of output hasn't happend with anything else I've converted - it's all looked pretty good so far.
It does generate a large LRF file - 2.8Mb and around 2600 pages, so I am wondering if I am hitting a limit or some sort of bug?

04-07-2008, 06:36 AM	#1
Megatron-UK Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 22 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: uk Device: Sony PRS505	Problem with BookDesigner on large book I'm converting a PDF of a large book (Stephen Kings 'The Stand', uncut version) using BookDesigner and I'm having a few issues when outputting to LRF. The PDF imports relatively cleanly and I've removed all of the erroneous TOC entries, so that it is a clean list of chapters now; divided into Sections. So I have one page with all of the Chapter links for Book 1 as follows: Chapter1 Chapter2 Chapter3 Chapter4 Chapter5 Chapter6 etc.. ... and then all the links for Book 2 on a second page, and Book 3 on a third. All main text is paragraph formatted and I have inserted scans of the 12 illustrations as found in the book into the correct locations. The problem is that when I generate the LRF output, instead of the correct structure: Title page and Author ------ Book 1 chapters TOC ------ Book 2 chapters TOC ------ Book 3 chapters TOC ------ Chapter 1 ------ Chapters N <- interspersed with illustrations at the correct places ------ Final Chapter ------ I get the following messed up format: Title page and Author ------ Book 1 chapters TOC Book 2 chapters TOC Book 3 chapters TOC ------ Illustration 1 Illustration 2 Illustration 3 ... Illustration 10 Illustration 11 Illustration 12 ------ Chapters 1 through to the Final Chapter <- No illustrations So I seem to have several problems; 1. The page break I insert between the TOC pages are removed. 2. Nearly all the chapter links in the TOC pages stop working - ie they don't highlight and you can't click them. 3. The remainder of the working links in the TOC pages link to Illustration 12, no matter where they link to in the book. 4. All of the text in the document changes to centred and what appears to be a bold font. 5. All of the illustrations are moved to directly after the TOC pages, despite being inserted into the correct locations in the text. This kind of output hasn't happend with anything else I've converted - it's all looked pretty good so far. It does generate a large LRF file - 2.8Mb and around 2600 pages, so I am wondering if I am hitting a limit or some sort of bug? Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Megatron-UK; 04-07-2008 at 06:39 AM.