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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Have you tested RTF files that contain graphics? And do you know if BeBook is planning to support HTML?
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Hi there,
Just as a test I saved this thread page as a complete HTML (i.e. html file plus a folder for graphics, etc.) and dumped it on the SD card of my BeBook. It does display, including the graphics (so my little BeBook avatar shows up). The formatting is not great, as some of the header stuff gets screwed up, and the tables of the thread page mean the text display gets put into a column and does not always use the full width of the page. Zooming allows you to improve it a little. Basically you can read the HTML and see graphics, but it may not look exactly like it doesin your browser in terms of hard formatting.
The format of the HTML page has a great impact on how it displays. As another example I went to a Wikipedia page and saved it as HTML, then selected the printable version and saved that as HTML as well as PDF, and put all those on the SD-card. Much better, as the pages are formatted nicely. There was little difference between the normal HTML and printable HTML pages (both with all graphics), except that the navigation pane from the main page had been dumped to the end of the document - convenient, as it serves no purpose on the BeBook (we're not browsing), but I think it was just lucky - it could have dumped it at the top, which is much messier. Actually the PDF in this case was not great in full page, but zooming to max (i.e. half page per view in landscape) made it very nice, with graphics and text formatted correctly, etc.
RTF files with graphics lose the graphics. However, I re-saved it in Word as a doc file and dumped that on, and amazingly that displayed fantastically! So you could save RTFs with graphics as Word files then read them.
Just out of interest, I also tried a CHM file (Microsoft Help Compiler) - I used the uTorrent help CHM, downloadable from their page. This worked surprisingly well - there was a little header formatting problem on each page (easy to ignore), but the body of the text was perfectly formatted. And best of all by going to the BeBook menu and choosing the "Go to index..." option, it effectively went to the table of contents you usually see in the left pane when you open a Microsoft CHM help file. This allows you to dig down into the lower sections and find exactly what you want, then jump to that page/section directly! I was surprised it worked so well, as I have seen threads here complaining about CHM support on other readers.
As for future BeBook support for HTML, anything is possible. I will post a query on their support forum to see if they will reveal some plans. As I said in my review, they're in the "honeymoon" phase at the moment, so very receptive and willing to listen. We'll see how things progress.
Hope this helps. Cheers!