As stated almost two years ago by
Moonraker, it is easy to convert from .rtf to .imp, though I
personally rarely have.
Recently, I found a posting about this same topic (and share it below):
Quote:
The following post is related to the eBook Technologies ETI-2 (also known as the eBookwise reader), and has nothing to do with anything else on this site. I'm posting this under "stuff that's hard to figure out yourself". So for anyone using this eBook, these are the simple instructions you need to get your content on your device.
Here are some step-by-step instructions on how to turn your text and html files into a format your eBook can understand. This method requires the eBook Publisher software (freeware, version 2.2.5) from eBook Technologies and a SmartMedia card with card reader, GEB/eBookwise Librarian or Impserve.
Step 1: Open your text document in Word (or other processor), and save in Rich Text Format (.rtf). This is just a text document that supports little formatting, but makes a good translation to the eBook format. So make your text document look proper here first.
Step 2: Run eBook Publisher. Select menu 'File' then 'New Project'.
Step 3: In the drop-down box next to 'Build Target:', select 'Grayscale Half-VGA'.
Step 4: Select menu 'File' then 'Save' to save your project. Give the project a file name in the same folder as your .rtf document. The project file ends with .opf
Step 5: Select menu 'File' then 'Import.'. Browse to your .rtf document and open it. You will then be asked to save it as an .odf file. Give this file a name, and save it in your project folder with your other files. This file will automatically add it to your project, and be listed under `Spline Items' on the main window.
Step 6: Select menu 'Project' then 'Build Edition.'. In the 'Edition Settings' window, the first tab is called 'Edition Info'. Here you can uncheck 'Require ISBN', and enter a title, author and language for your content (the other fields can be ignored). Next go to the 'Bookstore' tab to change the 'Bookshelf Category' - this will control what group the eBook is listed under on your ETI-2. Next in the 'Build Options' tab, uncheck 'Encrypt', but leave 'Compress' and 'Underline links' checked. Hit 'Ok', and select your project folder to save the eBook.
Step 7: If there are no errors, you will have an .imp file in your project folder. Send this file to your SmartMedia card's root, and place the card back in your eBook or use GEB/eBookwise Librarian or Impserve.
That's it.. a bit involved, but it works well. And the next time I forget how to do it, I can just look on my webpage. If this actually helps anyone, or you know a faster way, leave a comment.
September 26th, 2006 | Category: Hard to Find, eBooks |
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4 Comments so far
Terri
February 13th, 2007 | 8:48 pm
Hey there,
Thanks for your post! It helped me a ton. I have the ebookwise reader and have been having a hard time with formating text.
Thanks again!
PS Any other info you have I would love to see.
peter
February 13th, 2007 | 9:08 pm
Terri,
Glad that it helped you. It took me a couple days to figure that much out, so I wrote it up for others. WRT formatting, I haven't tried to do anything more complicated than taking plain text and applying a font.
Free Ebooks
June 27th, 2008 | 7:52 am
Can you write this post with some helpful screen images for each step.
Thanks
Monty
July 15th, 2008 | 5:10 am
hi there,
three years ago I bought the ebookwise reader - and still having my fun with it but some little things are not so good as they can be (i.e. room for improvement):
a) the best way to display a cover image is to put it before a page break in the rtf and to change the line in the .odf-file like this:
the size of 290x440pix is the best to show in a cover; filling the page (or any other image in a file!)
b) when you have some indirect speaches in it, beginning/ending with > and < the conversion put them into » and « to prevent this you can search/replace the > < in the rtf-file and put an # before it.
then you take the .odf-file ("edit" in the ebookpublisher) and replace the #» and #« (double quotes) with &rsaquo and &lsaquo (single quotes)
(this can be done with a little word-macro - copy the text from the .odf in word, start the macro and copy the text back)
when you want to see some examples, look at public.box.net/imp-archiv - there are my personal books i converted in the last years (sorry, that they are all in German - but I'm from Germany :-))
- The fontsize and -style in the book depends from the size of the fonts in the rtf:
For me the best reading size is Times 12 or 13, smaller than 11 changes the font (I don't use smaller sizes) and 14 or higher, I use for headlines.
Sans Serif-Fonts, like Arial, I use in size 11 - it's too big to display on the ebookwise (useful only for headlines). So I convert every book I make in Times, normal Text in 12 or 13 pt size, headlines/chapters a little bigger, the title page like the original. (empty lines I delete or put in, so that the text fits the page.)
- Before you convert a book into imp, you can put your own category on the "edition settings" - click the tab "Bookstore" and type a bookshelf category of your choice (Crime, SF, Fantasy.) in the first field. After the book is converted, in the ebookreader, you will see the different categories and have a little bit more "sorting" in your book :-))
The converting first into rtf is very good - it results in a much smaller and faster build than from word .doc/.html.
If you create not only a *.imp but also an *.oeb, you can use it to also make some *.rb for Rocket-users or *.imp for ETI-1 (color) devices - or you can upload it to the "personal content" site at ebookwise. (but uploaded files can't be bigger than 2 MB; BTW, self-converted has no size-limit.)